#RESCUE DOGS FROM SHELTERS
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nyenylon · 10 months ago
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Adopt a dog spirit today, it'll make them very happy
(This is my Sona from when I was 11 and Alpine, she's still here many years later, here are some recent works of her, some featuring me)
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electoons · 10 months ago
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I need to keep reminding myself that I did so much to keep her comfortable and alive for long enough for my family to return and also that nothing I could have done would have kept her alive so I can't keep dwelling on it like I didn't do enough. I did so much. I carried her everywhere. I helped her use the bathroom. I constantly was wiping the brown crusty drool off her paws and the crud that kept building in her eyes to give her some feeling of cleanliness and comfort. I stuck an IV in her (that I got from the vet, not just, like, on my own) once a day to keep her hydrated. like even though I was scrambling to finish an animation and get work done I put aside so much time and effort and love for her. I watched her like a hawk for the whole week, dealing with this on my own (it's no one's fault, just really bad timing, everything just happened to line up perfectly for the perfect shitstorm), just to make sure she didn't collapse and hurt herself. I did enough :( it wasn't enough but nothing would have been
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tethered-heartstrings · 1 year ago
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pet challange (hard mode), take a guess!
breed: very cute
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namira · 6 months ago
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The mass spay and neutering of pets is definitely a good thing overall but I do sometimes wonder about the potential impact of the decline of randombred dogs. Most US animal shelters are overwhelmingly populated by pit bull breeds and mixes, with a handful of other challenging breeds (ie German Shepherds, huskies) and a couple chihuahua-things here and there. Like outside of shelters in poorer rural areas there just aren't a lot of full on mutts, those classic Heinz 57 collie-lab-beagle-pointer type dogs. And again, this is overall a good thing because it means less unwanted dogs ending up in shelters and being euthanized due to lack of space despite being perfectly good dogs, but I do wonder. Like I wonder about the potential long-term impact in the dog population as a whole (less genetic diversity, etc) and I wonder about the human impact. Breeders are expensive, and those Heinz 57 mutts and non-pit purebreds that do end up in shelters are often scooped up by private rescue orgs that ostensibly reject anyone who isn't affluent. (ie heavily prioritizing adopters who work from home, requiring a fenced in yard even for small dogs that would do fine in an apartment, etc) So for a lot of Americans the only dogs realistically available to them are from breeds that are very much not for everyone (pits having a high prey drive and being predisposed to dog aggression, huskies having a high prey drive and generally being very high strung, etc) and that are, in many cases, flat out not allowed in rented properties and trailer parks. I really have no idea how it will play out in the long run or how to feel about it or any insightful conclusion here, but it does make me hmmm
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observeroftheuniverse · 1 year ago
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Happy birthday to me and @agent-starbuck's son! He is 4 today!
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madigoround · 1 year ago
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My birthday is on Sunday but my aunt can only hang out tomorrow so we’re going to the zoo because I haven’t been before and I’m so excited among all the cool animals they have a cheetah and a dog that are best friends I’m obsessed 😍🥰
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whippetcrimes · 2 years ago
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When Misty came to work with me last weekend, a man came in to collect the money for a local dog rescue. And he asked me if she was a rescue then continued the conversation into older people should adopt old rescue dogs because if they get a young dog from a breeder, the dog will have nowhere to go if they pass before the dog and the family can't take the dog/doesn't want it... And I was just like. If I weren't on the clock right now, I'd at the very least have said that any good breeder would take the dog back... He even directly asked me, "what would happen to your beautiful designer dog if something happened to you and your partner?" I had to bite my tongue so hard.
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fertbutt · 2 years ago
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I wish for all people who intentionally buy and breed wolfdogs to be torn to shreds eternally by a pack of wolves when they die and go to hell
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brighteyedspitz · 2 years ago
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baby has a bear
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sybbi · 1 year ago
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Someone in my neighborhood posting about how they "just rescued a dog but actually they can't afford to buy it diapers all the time does anyone want her :((" and I'm seeing red
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lesbiten · 1 year ago
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sometimes people who are super into ethical dog breeding get kinda weird about it and its like ohhh......you have bad opinions about other things as well
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dirt-mann · 2 years ago
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I wish there were more wirehaired dogs outside of terriers and working pointers (and extremely rare dogs that dont exist in my area). every gundog breed should have a wirehaired variant
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swagging-back-to · 3 months ago
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sent in an adoption application to the states rodent rescue <3
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reasonsforhope · 3 days ago
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"In Sacramento, California, an estimated 6,615 people are experiencing homelessness, a number that — while still heartbreakingly high — has declined 29% since 2023, according to the latest Point In Time counts. 
But a new project, which has been in the works since 2022, might bring that number down even lower.
A new 13-acre property purchased by Sacramento County will soon be home to the Watt Service Center and Safe Stay. 
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The county broke ground on the mixed-use service center this week, which will provide shelter, emergency respite, safe parking, health services, and more to community members who are unsheltered — meaning they don’t have a place to safely sleep at night.
“We wanted to do something that is not only larger, but a large-scale campus to provide more than just the shelter,” Janna Haynes, of the county’s Department of Homeless Services and Housing, told KCRA3 News.
The Watt Service Center will have amenities to help meet the needs of anyone staying there, including bathrooms, showers, laundry, and food, as well as mental health, treatment, and employment services.
“You can also meet with your case manager, get behavior health services, look for a job, get rehousing services, a place for your dog,” Jaynes added. “It’s really everything you need, not only for your day-to-day life, but to hopefully end your homelessness.”
While the center is a costly offering, the city explained that it is ultimately less expensive than allowing the homelessness crisis to go unmitigated.
The land was purchased for $22 million and will cost an estimated $42 million to construct the center. According to ABC10 News it will be mostly funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.
While the center will have the capacity to host 225 beds in Safe Stay cabins, 50-person capacity in Safe Parking, and 75-person capacity for emergency/weather respite beds, it will serve countless others outside of the 350 total people it can house at any given time.
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According to a press release from the county, “conservative estimates” have found that over the course of 15 years, the center will serve 18,000 people.
In 2017, the city found that the average cost for an “unsheltered individual” was about $45,000 a year, considering public systems like county jail, shelters, behavioral health, and more.
With the projected impact of the shelter, that cost lowers to less than $3,600 per person.
“If you break down the funding, it’s actually not that expensive,” Rich Desmond, county supervisor for District 3, told ABC10.
“It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than letting someone stay out in the community, unsheltered where they are extremely expensive in terms of the emergency response from fire, our emergency rooms, our law enforcement response.”
Providing what the county calls “wraparound services” not only brings down costs but truly helps people meet their basic needs.
“The really great thing about this site in particular, that we don't have at any other shelters, is the sheer size and the ability to really wrap everything people need,” Emily Halcon, director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing with Sacramento County, told ABC10. 
One notable feature is the center’s Safe Parking spaces, which are the first of their kind in the city. People living in their cars will now have a safe place to park, monitored by security.
“We know a lot of people who are unsheltered actually are living out of their cars,” Desmond said, “maybe a family that’s barely hanging on but they still need that vital transportation to get their kids to school or get to work.”
This support is especially helpful for those who are newly homeless, Halcon added, building on the amenities provided in the county’s two other “safe stay” facilities. 
While Sacramento County just broke ground on the Watt Service Center, officials say they hope to begin moving people into the facility in January 2026.
“Our staff is putting in extra time and attention to this campus, ensuring that it houses everything we need to end homelessness for people,” Desmond said in a statement.
Once it’s up and running, Jaynes told KCRA3, they plan to onboard formerly unhoused community members as part of the staff at the facility.
“When you have a conversation with someone who understands where you���ve been, and you see the success they’re having now,” Jaynes said, “it really does give you hope something could be different.”
-via GoodGoodGood, January 24, 2025
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kipxan · 4 months ago
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“oh yeah that friendly 6-8 week old kitten with no collar or chip you took in? the invasive species that will grow up to decimate the native wildlife if it even grows up at all? yeah sorry, throw it back out into the desert, we don’t take strays” (i genuinely wish i was exaggerating here)
YOU’RE THE FUCKING CITY ANIMAL SHELTER! IF YOU DONT TAKE STRAYS THEN WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO??
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tuttamialittlemsblog · 8 months ago
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Excellent information on adopting a rescue dog. Patience is required with any puppy. Training is ongoing till your sweet doggo can handle essential commands. Then move to fun—-shake paw——roll over—-kiss—-spin….& many more.🐕❤️🐕‍🦺❤️
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This comic made it to my Patreon first, but I'm posting it here, finally. It's been two weeks now, and she's settling in well!
Aaand of course, we have dog photo tax:
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Between the time this comic was drawn and posted, her ears have popped up!
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