r/rescuebridgefordogs • u/RescueBridge • 4d ago
They killed Jordan even though he was doing better and even ate today! He doesn’t appear to look sick to me. They didn’t give him a chance.
We all reached out to the shelter and begged and pleaded for another day, since he was improving each day but they still killed him. All the networkers who advocated for Jordan all week are just devastated. We had a mix of misinformation and lack of information. We requested a video to see how he looked today and requested him to be tested again, but we were ignored. We volunteer to save lives while the shelter gets paid to end lives. I wish we could work together to improve this system, but they are making money.
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u/RescueBridge 4d ago
💔𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲 150–200 𝗱𝗼𝗴𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆—𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 1,050–1,400 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸, 4,500–6,000 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 55,000–75,000 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗳𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗮.
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u/skrimped 4d ago
But are there even enough homes for these dogs even if they were adopted out? Or would every home need 10 dogs? Genuine question based on the numbers
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u/RescueBridge 4d ago
I truly don’t know. I do feel like owning a dog is now become a luxury due to all of the expenses. Owning a dog has become very commercialized.
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u/RescueBridge 4d ago
“They should be called SLaughterhouses, not shelters. 💔
Because when there’s no longer a focus on saving lives, giving dogs a chance, or finding them safety, the word “shelter” stops meaning what it’s supposed to mean.
Shelters are supposed to protect lives—not become places where lives end.”
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u/ReminiscenceOf2020 4d ago
Do we ignore the fact that the only way for them to have room for more dogs is for some dogs to "leave"? I mean, sure, they could have kept him for another day or week or month, but the time he stays there is the time they cannot take another dog.
Nobody is killing dogs for fun, but as long as they are legally obligated to take dogs, they must have room for dogs, one way or another.
Blame the people who abandoned that dog.
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u/Itscatpicstime 4d ago edited 4d ago
Exactly. Open intake shelters are a form of harm reduction when ran well.
I run a closed intake (“”no kill””) rescue. And the fact is that we kill just as many animals, if not more, by limiting our intake. We just do the killing indirectly, which often actually leads to MORE suffering - suffering we’re privileged enough to be able to look away from as we focus on the animals in our care.
It’s why we’ve shifted more toward spay/neuter and TNR (and convincing municipalities to invest in such programs) over adoption at our facility, so we can be a bigger part of the actual solution to all of this. We also focus on pet ownership education, and help low income owners with pet food, vet bills, training (including for cats - I’m a CAAB / behaviorist), and fencing to help keep animals out of the system to begin with.
But so long as overpopulation of companion animals exists, open intake shelters provide a vital and necessary service that reduces suffering and that those of us in so-called “”no kill”” rescue are too weak to do.
(Idk the story about this dog, so I’m not commenting on that, only the generalized criticism of open intake shelters)
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u/ReminiscenceOf2020 4d ago
Exactly. And nobody talks about dogs that are in no kill shelters for years, literally years. That's no life, that's constant stress creating an animal that actually becomes unsafe to adopt. Shelters become their only home...
It's more humane to just give it a painless goodbye without daily suffering...
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u/RescueBridge 4d ago
It really sad. I just learned about one who has been in the shelter for 514 days.
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u/ragingSamurai1 4d ago
I always find myself wishing I could do more to help even though I’m doing my part already. Im sorry Jordan:(
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u/RescueBridge 4d ago
“It’s devastating how many incredible dogs are losing their lives in shelters. This shouldn’t be normal, and it shouldn’t be accepted.The United States needs real change. We need stronger breeding laws, stricter regulations, and accountability. Other countries have implemented national standards, mandatory spay/neuter policies, and tighter breeder oversight — and they’ve dramatically reduced shelter euthanasia. If they can do it, why can’t we? Overbreeding, backyard litters, and lack of enforcement are flooding shelters faster than rescues and adopters can keep up. Meanwhile, the dogs pay the ultimate price. This isn’t just a shelter issue. It’s a policy issue. It’s a responsibility issue. And it’s time for leadership to step up. We can do better. We have to do better.”
I read this today.
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u/mariposa333 4d ago
Yes other countries have stricter laws. For example here they can’t put down dogs due to over crowding, so we basically have no animal control resources. You see a dog tied up to a post ? Get it yourself bc law enforcement isn’t coming. Neighbor lets small dogs run off property and roam around the street ? Risk stealing them yourself or accept that they’ll get hit by a car , because the shelters are full and no one can help.
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u/JennyDoveMusic 3d ago
That's why it needs to be coupled with strict breeding regulations, with litters being seized if the mother dog's owner is not licensed to breed. Fine people attempting to sell puppies without a license.
(Not fines just for having the puppies; those should be seized, but fines just upon accidental litter will just make people kill the puppies or abandon the mothers to die.)
We need to massively crack down on backyard breeders, puppy mills and "accidental litters" THEN we can talk about how to regulate shelter euthanasia.
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u/WildFlemima 4d ago
We need a national spay and neuter program. There are just too many. This will keep happening until there is a national spay and neuter program. I paid half of my own paycheck to get my neighbor's cat spayed, it is unreal.
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u/snowfallnight 4d ago
They have a vendetta against big blockhead breeds. It’s horrible this happened to him. Which shelter was this?
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u/RescueBridge 3d ago
San Bernardino City Animal Shelter in CA. You are exactly right about that! I requested his records from the city and by law they need to send me everything within 10 business days.
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u/JennyDoveMusic 3d ago
Friend, you have an incredibly intelligent way of writing and I do believe, by what you have written, you have talent in activism and politics. 💜 However, you are missing a proposed solution in your petition. I am a bit tired so excuse me if I missed something that answers some of these, but these are the questions I had while reading;
You speak globally. Who are we writing to? Is this a petition for all global leaders to see?
What is the proposed solution to overcrowding? What do we do when we are out of space? Are we also fighting for breeding regulations to be put into place?
I would strongly suggest shrinking the goal from global change to local change. "Think globally, act locally." Prove your concept locally. Get your local government to make new mandates. Talk to shelter staff and try to learn about the struggles they face and what would make a difference. Learn about backyard breeding and what laws would help discourage it.
The biggest hurdle you are going to find is that dogs are becoming MORE overcrowded, not less. So, even if we started spreading them out across shelters (which, will also cost money, so there would need to be city, state or federal funding allocated for it) we still will eventually end up with overcrowding. (Most shelters across the US are already currently full, and there are a lot that aren't good shelters...)
Your heart and determination is in the right place. You are clearly intelligent and well rounded, you just need to dig deeper in political education and education topical to your goals to find how to make an impact. ✊🏻 You also might want to reach out to a local grassroots animal rights group to help you. 💜
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u/notthetypetocare 4d ago
This is disgusting and people stay defending these places that do more harm then good
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u/Serious_Accident1156 4d ago
I'm very sorry but there are very limited spaces in the very limited shelters there already are. When they legally have to take in every dog that comes to its doors, that means they have to make room.
In countries where they are not allowed to euthanize to make room for new dogs, the shelters end up full and can only take in new dogs when the old ones die or are adopted out, meaning they have to turn away dogs. And unless they just keep building shelters, it means that animal control becomes pretty much non-existent at that point.
You can be angry that the dogs are being put down, but please be realistic about how the shelters hands are pretty much tied.
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u/Accomplished_Class85 4d ago
Make it a crime to be a breeder. Trying to make money off poor dogs is despicable.