LONGVIEW TX NAY SAYERS GET OUT OF THE WAY!

This post covers two topics...

First topic: City Council meeting last night. Here are the video minutes of that meeting where a group of advocates with one elected spokesperson attended on behalf of the area animals. Start watching at 5 minutes until approximately 12 1/2 minutes.

Basically, the city council is interested ONLY in a private/public partnership. And that boils down to $. If the PRIVATE sector doesn't have half the funds ready, the Mayor says he WILL NOT ask the public to vote on a special election. Watch the minutes and take notes.

Second topic: REGARDLESS whether a new facility is built or not, if management and especially the director of the shelter are not pro NO KILL, then 80% of the animals arriving will continue to DIE! They won't be put to sleep, they will DIE!!!

Brand new facility, or not. No matter how shiny the building, or how spacious, if you aren't NO KILL then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

Get yourself educated on what NO KILL entails. Be prepared to ask yourself some really hard questions. If you still haven't read it, here is the NO KILL 101 PRIMER. It's quick easy reading.

NO KILL is not technical. NO KILL means you have to be organized, you have to have lots of volunteers and YOU HAVE TO HAVE COMPASSION FOR THE ANIMALS! And YES, it CAN BE CHANGED OVERNIGHT! It's being done by many shelters across the United States! (AND YES, many are open admissions also!)

And yesterday, (probably while folks were attending that city council meeting) these are just 6 of the animals who were KILLED at Longview shelter. *( 

RIP Dobbie

RIP Terrance

RIP Fluff

RIP Sarge

RIP Butter and Scotch

So advocates, I'm asking you to COME TOGETHER ON THIS NO KILL and COME TOGETHER TO WORK FOR THE ANIMALS! If you're a nay sayer, you don't know what NO KILL is. And if you don't know what NO KILL is, you are of no use to these animals!

TAG TEAM ADVOCACY - It Works!

Since I began posting animals to Pet Pardons.....I have "met" online some of the absolute sweetest, kindest, most passionate people in the world. These people would give you one of their own kidneys I think...or at least they'd give one to their dog or cat if needed. These persons are literally bursting with the kind of passion that is needed in this world.

The DANGER though in this very passionate "business" of saving animals lives...is burnout. And it's very, very real. The emotional highs and lows daily, even hourly can wreck havoc upon the most stable of temperments.

Prevent burnout by teaming up with a pair of like minded advocates. Form a tag team. When one team member is beat up emotionally and can't continue on, another advocate refreshed from a different time zone perhaps can jump right in and take your place.

Go rest while you can, because we need YOU in this fight. The killing shelters are operating and slaughtering thousands of animals.....so it's imperative we WORK TOGETHER FOR THE ANIMALS!
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These 4 innocent animals were among those I posted last week to Pet Pardons from the Longview TX "shelter".....I found out today these four didn't make it out of that hell hole. Don't really know how long they've been dead because the shelter is very secretive about how they kill, when they kill. In all honesty, they were probably dead by Saturday evening. :( You see, the "shelter" is closed on Sunday and Monday and the animals photos are not updated daily on the Facebook page run by the volunteers. 

All 4 perfectly healthy, adoptable animals KILLED FOR SPACE!!!  Shame on the old school board of directors and owners of that privately-owned shelter for refusing to throw out the archaic methods...Karma IS A BITCH!!! Remember that!

RIP DOLLAR

RIP DELL

RIP MOCHA

RIP YEARN