Indianapolis euthanizing an animal an hour

[xellil]

This is why I just get tired of people who buy from a pet store or online, let their animals breed, etc. etc. etc.

If everyone in this city who wanted a pet adopted one and got it fixed, we wouldn't have this problem.

Once confiscated, the animals end up at the city shelter, which has taken in more than 63,000 animals since January 2008.

Records show about half of those animals never made it out alive, which roughly equates to one animal killed every hour.

The Call 6 investigators watched as workers dumped euthanized animals into the garbage to be hauled to a nearby landfill. VantWoud said workers have no choice.

"There's just too many being born," VantWoud said. "It's a very hard thing to take a perfectly placeable, awesome dog and end its life simply because there's not a cage to keep it in."

It's something animal advocates said they've tried to make clear to the mayor and members of the City-County Council, by putting together two reports, one in 2002 and another in 2009.

Advocates said that Mayor Greg Ballard and Public Safety Committee Chairman Ben Hunter both received a copy of the 2009 report, which detailed the animal overpopulation problem.

The Call 6 investigators asked Hunter if it was acceptable for the city to kill thousands of animals.

"I'm not aware of thousands of animals being killed," he said.

But in the 2009 Animal Welfare Report that Hunter received, it said, "Just under 11,000 (animals) were temporarily housed and then destroyed by IACC" in 2008.

This is probably the most mismanaged, underfunded, inadequate animal control in the country. A few years ago someone filmed a cat which was supposed to be euthanized left bleeding on the floor for hours. They fired the director. They hired another director and fired him the next year. They cut their budget ALOT, then gave some of it back. There are never enough homes, or help for these animals.

I am very sad about all this. MAny big cities have decent shelters. Why can't Indy???

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/29603538/detail.html

[Tobi]

yikes... that's pretty disgusting... but unfortunately i don't ever see it getting any better. The shelters around here are full, they are euthanizing hundreds of animals a month...
For instance... a guy brought in 13 puppies not even with their eyes opened yet, and said... " I just need these killed" so 13 puppies from an unwanted litter of the bitch that he still owns, and doesn't plan on having fixed are dead.... and likely she will just have more litters because of this bastard.

[xellil]

yikes... that's pretty disgusting... but unfortunately i don't ever see it getting any better. The shelters around here are full, they are euthanizing hundreds of animals a month...
For instance... a guy brought in 13 puppies not even with their eyes opened yet, and said... " I just need these killed" so 13 puppies from an unwanted litter of the bitch that he still owns, and doesn't plan on having fixed are dead.... and likely she will just have more litters because of this bastard.

It's just sickening, isn't it.

Snorkels came from the indy animal control - her owners brought her and told them to just kill her, she's old and sick. Her being saved was thanks to a miraculous and wonderful woman, but so many don't get the chance and many are young, healthy, sociable dogs. It makes me irritated when someone says they won't go to a shelter to get a dog because all that's there are the dregs that won't make good pets.

I think it's so ironic that we are a supposedly a nation that loves our pets.