> Marianne Hellemose skrev:
> Denne dukkede op på en af mine lister og kastede lidt lys
> over hvorfor personalet på internater engang imellem virker som om de har
> lyst til at kvæle nogen
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> Dear Mr. and Mrs. Average Pet Owner:
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> Thank you for contacting us animal rescuers, shelter volunteers, and
> foster-homes about your inability to keep your pet. We receive an
> extremely high volume of inquiries and requests to accept surrendered
> animals (and none of us is getting paid, OK?). To help us expedite
> your problem as quickly as possible, please observe the following
> guidelines:
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> 1. Do not say that you are
> pet, or that you,
> THINK it would be better if
> percent of you have already got your minds stone-cold made up that the
> animal WILL be out of your life by the weekend at the latest. Say so.
> If you don't, I'm going to waste a lot of time giving you
> common-sense, easy solutions for very fixable problems, and you're
> going to waste a lot of time coming up with fanciful reasons why the
> solution couldn't possibly work for you. For instance, you say the cat
> claws the furniture, and I tell you about nail-clipping and scratching
> posts and aversion training, and then you go into a long harangue
> about how your husband won't let you put a scratching post in the
> family room, and your ADHD daughter cries if you use a squirt bottle
> on the cat, and your congenital thumb abnormalities prevent you from
> using nail scissors and etc. Just say you're getting rid of the cat.
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> 2. Do not waste time trying to convince me how nice and humane you
> are. Your coworker recommended that you contact me because I am nice
> to animals, not because I am nice to people, and I don't like people
> who
> phrase in any language. I hope someone
> an animal advocate, not a people therapist. After all, for your ADHD
> daughter, you can get counselors, special teachers, doctors, social
> workers, etc. Your pet has only me, and people like me, to turn to in
> his or her need, and we are unpaid, overworked, stressed-out, and
> demoralized. So don't tell me this big long story about how,
> this dog so much, and we even bought him a special bed that cost $50,
> and it is just KILLING us to part with him, but honestly, our maid is
> just awash in dog hair every time she cleans, and his breath sometimes
> just reeks of liver, so you can see how hard we've tried, and how dear
> he is to us, but we really just can't...
> not killing you. It is, in all probability, literally killing your
> dog, but you're going to be just fine once the beast is out of your
> sight. Don't waste my time trying to make me like you or feel sorry
> for you in your plight.
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> 3. Do not try to convince me that your pet is exceptional and deserves
> special treatment. I don't care if you taught him to sit. I don't care
> if she's a beautiful Persian. I have a waiting list of battered and/or
> whacked-out animals who need help, and I have no room to foster-house
> your pet. Do not send me long messages detailing how Fido just
> l-o-v-e-s blankies and carries his favorite blankie everywhere, and
> oh, when he gets all excited and happy, he spins around in circles,
> isn't that cute? He really is darling, so it wouldn't be any trouble
> at all for us to find him a good home. Listen, we can go down to the
> pound and count the darling, spinning, blankie-loving beasts on death
> row by the dozens, any day of the week. And, honey, Fido is a
> six-year-old Shepherd-Lab mix. I am not lying when I tell you that
> big, older, mixed-breed, garden-variety dogs are almost completely
> unadoptable, and I don't care if they can whistle Dixie or send
> semaphore signals with their blankies. What you don't realize is that,
> though you're trying to lie to me, you're actually telling the truth:
> Your pet is a special, wonderful, amazing creature. But this mean old
> world does not care. More importantly, YOU do not care, and I can't
> fix that problem. All I can do is grieve for all the exceptional
> animals who live short, brutal, loveless lives and die without anyone
> ever recognizing that they were indeed very, very special.
>
> 4. Finally, just, for God's sake, for the animal's sake, tell the
> truth, and the whole truth. Do you think that if you just mumble that
> your cat is
> it into foster care? No, I will start asking questions and uncover the
> truth, which is that your cat has not used a litter box in the last
> six months. Do not tell me that you
> what happens when you try to crate him, and you will either be forced
> to tell me the symptoms of full-blown, severe separation anxiety, or
> else you will resort to lying some more, wasting more of our time.
> And, if you succeed in placing your pet in a shelter or foster care,
> do not tell yourself the biggest lie of all:
> take him and find him a good home, and everything will be fine.
> nice people will indeed give the animal every possible chance, but if
> we discover serious health or behavior problems, if we find that your
> misguided attempts to train or discipline him have driven him over the
> edge, we will do what you are too immoral and cowardly to do: We will
> hold the animal in our arms, telling him truthfully that he is a good
> dog or cat, telling him truthfully that we are sorry and we love him,
> while the vet ends his life. How can we be so heartless as to kill
> your pet, you ask? Do not ever dare to judge us. At least we tried. At
> least we stuck with him to the end. At least we never abandoned him to
> strangers, as you certainly did, didn't you? In short, this little old
> rescuer/foster momma has reached the point where she would prefer you
> pet owners to tell her stories like this:
> picked up a free pet in the parking lot a couple of years ago. Now we
> don't want it anymore. We're lazier than we thought. We've got no
> patience either. We're starting to suspect the animal is really
> smarter than we are, which is giving us self-esteem issues. Clearly,
> we can't possibly keep it. Plus, it might be getting sick; it's acting
> kind of funny. We would like you to take it in eagerly,
> enthusiastically, and immediately. We hope you'll realize what a deal
> you're getting and not ask us for a donation to help defray your
> costs. After all, this is an (almost) pure-bred animal, and we'll send
> the leftover food along with it. We get it at Wal-Mart too, and boy,
> it's a really good deal, price-wise. We are very irritated that you
> haven't shown pity on us in our great need and picked the animal up
> already. We thought you people were supposed to be humane! Come and
> get it today. No, we couldn't possibly bring it to you; the final
> episode of
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> Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Pet Owner, for your cooperation. Author
> Unknown, but could be any shelter worker or rescuer.
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> Marianne Hellemose
> ***Ailurophil***
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> can be judged by how its animals are treated
> Mahatma Ghandi
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Puha, og føj hvor må det være svært at arbejde under de betingelser!!
Jeg kan lige forestille mig hvor svært det må være ikke at lade ens
virkelige følelser og tanker vælde ud over alle de mennesker der bare
losser dyrene af som affald.......... (jeg håber faktisk at personalet
indimellem lader det løbe af med sig
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Med venlig hilsen
Nina Søgaard
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