Linda Fortune Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline
More about homeless animals.
Welcome,
The number of homeless animals in our communities is enormous. In Tacoma, Washington alone, The Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County finds homes for more than 7,000 shelter animals each year. This amounts to an average of 150 animal adoptions each week. This particular shelter finds homes for more animals than any other shelter in the State of Washington. On average, they have over 50 dogs and 35 cats available for adoption on any given day.
Considering that this number of homeless animals does not include those which come to the shelter hurt or too ill to be adopted out, it is easy to see why the numbers would indicate that it will take a united community effort and individual acts of responsibility to adequately deal with the population of homeless animals.
We all need to take constructive action. While foundations and organizations unite with the Humane Society in their effort to offer spray and neuter clinics, it will also take more responsible actions on the part of every animal owner. We need to adequately take care of all animals that we allow to come into this world by arranging for their placement into loving families, for their adoption through an organization such as the Humane Society, or we need to have their pets neutered and spayed before births can take place. Our animals are worthy of the highest treatment and care. They, too, deserve a life of quality. Homelessness is not a good option for them just as it is not for us.
Next entry: Animal adoption.
With blessings, Linda
Linda Fortune
Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County
Welcome,
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County provides an invaluable service to our community. With the defining mission of this organization and through the efforts of their staff and the many volunteers, they work tirelessly to provide compassionate and good care for all the animals that come to them. They reunite lost pets with their owners, they provide medical care to injured animals, they facilitate adoptions, and they provide love and comfort for the animals waiting to be adopted.
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County has also adopted a ‘no-kill’ shelter policy and has been working diligently toward reaching this goal that was set two years ago. What this means is that the shelter is working to end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals. This goal is admirable and its realization will take the efforts of many people in the community both from organizations and from responsible behavior of our citizens.
Since the Humane Society is an open shelter, every animal regardless of its medical condition or behavior issue is accepted, evaluated, and dealt with in the most compassionate way. Because of the presenting difficult problems, not all animals are able to be healed and be held for adoption. This sometimes means that the most loving thing to be done is to give the animal a dignified passing.
Because of the large population of animals in our community, it will take all of our efforts to help solve the homeless animal issue. Toward this end, the Humane Society staff work in conjunction with numerable other organizations in the area that are committed to animal welfare. Utilizing donations from individuals and foundations, groups of these animal welfare organizations have worked together to provide for both a high-volume, low-cost spay neutering and a mobile spay-neuter clinic vehicle which have served the area during the course of this year.
Next entry: More about homeless animals.
With blessings, Linda