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Dogs are pack animals and very social. The fact that they respond to signs of affection should be to no ones surprise.:YMAPPLAUSE:
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Baz said:
Too some degree?
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Maurice Boscorelli said:
That dogs are still dogs or animal too have feeling?.
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I responded to this post in dogs are mans best friend thread, but to comment to the fact that animals have feelings "to some degree" .....and that dogs are dogs, means what? I become a little angry at these types of remarks so excuse my frankness.
It is because of thoughts like these that animals of all kinds are treated callously and caused suffering just as this dog was!! Simply because the "animal" is not of a human sort doesn't mean it deserves less appreciation, kindness, understanding or value. Jesus, when will people stop being so species specific, egotistical and brainwashed into believing that our species is the only one that matters or is the only one deserving of kindnesses and love and respect! Animals DO feel, the degree to which they do should n't be the concern the fact that they do should be and so what if their emotions are different or not as obvious or the same as ours, something that I'm not sure I believe, that doesn't make them less deserving!! Remember it was a human that caused that dog to react that way to begin with, shouldn't he or she be proud to be a "human"!!
It is because of thoughts like these that animals of all kinds are treated callously and caused suffering just as this dog was!! Simply because the "animal" is not of a human sort doesn't mean it deserves less appreciation, kindness, understanding or value. Jesus, when will people stop being so species specific, egotistical and brainwashed into believing that our species is the only one that matters or is the only one deserving of kindnesses and love and respect! Animals DO feel, the degree to which they do should n't be the concern the fact that they do should be and so what if their emotions are different or not as obvious or the same as ours, something that I'm not sure I believe, that doesn't make them less deserving!! Remember it was a human that caused that dog to react that way to begin with, shouldn't he or she be proud to be a "human"!!
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Well said.
" Be kind to one another and to the animals" RJF
Isn't that part pf the unwritten rule for life?.
Dogs marked for death in U.S. get second chance in Toronto
The Toronto-based organization, which saves U.S. shelter dogs facing euthanasia and finds them permanent loving homes locally, has had their adoption numbers go through the roof in the wake of a Toronto Sun article about their operation.
Since Nov. 30, Dire Woofs has found homes for 29 rescue dogs in the GTA. Their latest rescue brought in 14 more dogs and as of last week, four already had found homes. The organization has saved 115 dogs through adoption or foster homes since launching in September.
“People love rescue dogs, they want to help,” co-founder Carly Werle said. “We get dogs in that have three legs, scarring and patches of missing hair, and people want to adopt them, whereas they’re thrown away like garbage in other areas. It’s incredible.”
Werle and her business partner, Nicole Lessard, drive more than 5,700 kilometres to Texas, Arkansas and Georgia each month to rescue 50 canines from “barbaric forms of euthanasia,” such as injecting an acid they call “blue death” into the animals’ hearts or gassing them.
Since November, more U.S. and local organizations have come forward to help Dire Woofs with veterinary care or air or ground transportation needed to deliver the dogs to the Canadian border, where Lessard can legally bring them into the country.
Overpopulation is a major reason some nine million dogs end up in U.S. shelters.
The organization says it is unique because members also care about the well-being of potential pet owners because “you can’t have a secure dog without a secure human,” Werle said. Dire Woofs performs follow-up visits with the adopters to make sure furry friends and fur parents are doing well.
Senja Vassallo, 27, adopted Henry (formerly known as Scrappy), from Dire Woofs after being a foster parent for a short while for the one-year-old terrier-poodle mix.
“I’m a technician at Beaches Animal Hospital,” Vassallo said. “Henry came from Texas with his brother, who has also been adopted.
They were abandoned by their previous owners and then they were going to be euthanized. In my profession, we see so many dogs that are rescues and I think a lot of people bypass the opportunity to give these dogs a second chance.”
Q&A WITH DIRE WOOFS CO-FOUNDERS
•Why did you decide to form Dire Woofs?
Nicole Lessard: “I’ve been working with animals for over 10 years, trying to foster dogs, cats and wildlife. I’ve always wanted to have some kind of impact on the animals. We thought that we should really just do it ourselves and be the ones responsible for bringing these dogs in.”
•How has an increased response from people willing to help your organization assisted the animals?
Carly Werle: “We’ve saved over 100 dogs in 2 1/2 months and maybe another 150 in the next couple of months. We have people applying (for adoption) all over Ontario for our dogs. But our issue is finding volunteers who can do follow-up home visits, so we need volunteers with cars — people to drive dogs to the vet, to foster homes, and pick up supplies in rural Ontario areas.”
•What is the most heartbreaking story you’ve encountered?
Werle: “We had a dog named Maggie May and her sister Sugar in a shelter in Odessa. A 12-year-old boy who is adopting dogs and keeps stabbing the dogs in the eyes with pencils. They literally had pencils sticking out of the eyeballs when (a partner organization) found them when they were bringing them in the kill shelter. She grabbed the dogs and had to have their eyeballs removed. They’ve been adopted to a family and are doing well now.”
•What’s your end goal?
Lessard: “I don’t think we have a definite number on the dogs we’d like to rescue — as many as we can and as many we can find homes for — so that could be 200 to 2,000. We’d like to grow, in a sense, but we also don’t want to lose that one-on-one that we have with a lot of our adopters or fosters and volunteers. Eventually, we would like to have an actual home base and move into other areas like behaviour workshops and training and daycare.”
https://www.torontosun.com/2016/01/10/torontonians-opening-hearts-homes-to-us-rescue-dogs
The Toronto-based organization, which saves U.S. shelter dogs facing euthanasia and finds them permanent loving homes locally, has had their adoption numbers go through the roof in the wake of a Toronto Sun article about their operation.
Since Nov. 30, Dire Woofs has found homes for 29 rescue dogs in the GTA. Their latest rescue brought in 14 more dogs and as of last week, four already had found homes. The organization has saved 115 dogs through adoption or foster homes since launching in September.
“People love rescue dogs, they want to help,” co-founder Carly Werle said. “We get dogs in that have three legs, scarring and patches of missing hair, and people want to adopt them, whereas they’re thrown away like garbage in other areas. It’s incredible.”
Werle and her business partner, Nicole Lessard, drive more than 5,700 kilometres to Texas, Arkansas and Georgia each month to rescue 50 canines from “barbaric forms of euthanasia,” such as injecting an acid they call “blue death” into the animals’ hearts or gassing them.
Since November, more U.S. and local organizations have come forward to help Dire Woofs with veterinary care or air or ground transportation needed to deliver the dogs to the Canadian border, where Lessard can legally bring them into the country.
Overpopulation is a major reason some nine million dogs end up in U.S. shelters.
The organization says it is unique because members also care about the well-being of potential pet owners because “you can’t have a secure dog without a secure human,” Werle said. Dire Woofs performs follow-up visits with the adopters to make sure furry friends and fur parents are doing well.
Senja Vassallo, 27, adopted Henry (formerly known as Scrappy), from Dire Woofs after being a foster parent for a short while for the one-year-old terrier-poodle mix.
“I’m a technician at Beaches Animal Hospital,” Vassallo said. “Henry came from Texas with his brother, who has also been adopted.
They were abandoned by their previous owners and then they were going to be euthanized. In my profession, we see so many dogs that are rescues and I think a lot of people bypass the opportunity to give these dogs a second chance.”
Q&A WITH DIRE WOOFS CO-FOUNDERS
•Why did you decide to form Dire Woofs?
Nicole Lessard: “I’ve been working with animals for over 10 years, trying to foster dogs, cats and wildlife. I’ve always wanted to have some kind of impact on the animals. We thought that we should really just do it ourselves and be the ones responsible for bringing these dogs in.”
•How has an increased response from people willing to help your organization assisted the animals?
Carly Werle: “We’ve saved over 100 dogs in 2 1/2 months and maybe another 150 in the next couple of months. We have people applying (for adoption) all over Ontario for our dogs. But our issue is finding volunteers who can do follow-up home visits, so we need volunteers with cars — people to drive dogs to the vet, to foster homes, and pick up supplies in rural Ontario areas.”
•What is the most heartbreaking story you’ve encountered?
Werle: “We had a dog named Maggie May and her sister Sugar in a shelter in Odessa. A 12-year-old boy who is adopting dogs and keeps stabbing the dogs in the eyes with pencils. They literally had pencils sticking out of the eyeballs when (a partner organization) found them when they were bringing them in the kill shelter. She grabbed the dogs and had to have their eyeballs removed. They’ve been adopted to a family and are doing well now.”
•What’s your end goal?
Lessard: “I don’t think we have a definite number on the dogs we’d like to rescue — as many as we can and as many we can find homes for — so that could be 200 to 2,000. We’d like to grow, in a sense, but we also don’t want to lose that one-on-one that we have with a lot of our adopters or fosters and volunteers. Eventually, we would like to have an actual home base and move into other areas like behaviour workshops and training and daycare.”
https://www.torontosun.com/2016/01/10/torontonians-opening-hearts-homes-to-us-rescue-dogs
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cristycurves
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Thank you Mcguinty for posting that, there is also a group of people from Halifax that finds homes for American shelter dogs, they drive there to get them and drive them back to here. There are so may more kill shelters there because I suppose of the high numbers of dumped pets. Spay and neuter, neuter and spay and for heavens sake only get a pet if you plan on keeping it for it's life, and have a back up plan for it's care if you can.
I vote this already best post of the year. I have no wife or kids and plan to leave most of my estate to animal charities. So far I have Farley's and Blind Cat Rescue on my list.
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Mikehorn said:
My sincere thanks
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