Samantha Levine
NC Animal Shelter Problems There are animal shelters all over the world including North Carolina. Animal shelters are intended as a temporary home for animals which provides care to a mentally injured, physically injure, or surrendered animal before they get adopted. However, you can not be guaranteed the same level of care at every shelter. If an animal is not taken care of properly, there can be potential problems. Let's say there’s a dog that was found on the streets and is in an animal shelter . The vets don’t update any vaccines and decide to just put a dog outside to play with the other animals. If the dog had picked any disease up on the streets the other animals can pick it up, especially if those other animals vaccines weren’t updated as well. Another scenario is that this dog has aggression towards the other animals and can injure or get injured in a fight. If the dog is adopted, then when it is taken home and taken on walks, it could spread its diseases if the owner hadn’t taken it to the vet yet. All the other pets could pick this up, affecting the owners and community. So, it is very important that we make sure that all the animals are taken care of. I have had 2 dogs as well as many other interesting pets which makes this subject something I feel very strongly about because I have always loved animals and seeing sick/injured animals without care is not acceptable. Some things you can do to make sure that the animals are taken care of properly is to actually go and volunteer at local animal shelters to check on the environment and health of them. If you find anything wrong you should report it. When you volunteer you could get groups together to spread the word. This will likely motivate more people to make sure these animals are safe, so when (or if) they get adopted they are in good health. In addition, you could organise fundraisers to help the shelter maintain and improve their care and/or donate food and blankets for the baby animals. All the animals at these shelters have emotions just like us. Everyone has felt pain at some point in their life so you can relate to these animals. They feel pain, so it is critical that all of them are taken care of. state-gives-guilford-county-animal-shelter-warning-for-mistreatment-of-animals
3 Comments
Madeline
1/15/2018 07:00:39 pm
I think this is a very well written essay. It is a very important issue that people should care more about. People should care more about animals and what happens when they are mistreated.
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Laura Lillian Baggett
1/18/2018 01:29:01 pm
Wow! I didn’t even know this was a problem! Your last paragraph is really impactful, and you are so right. Every creature deserves respect and safety.
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Alison
1/18/2018 01:47:22 pm
Your essay is very well written. This is a very important issue that needs to be addressed. I think did a very good job doing that. I love the last paragraph. It was very impactful.
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