Over 50% of the dogs that come into our shelter are Pit Bulls or Pit Bull mixes that would require insurance for the pound to adopt them out. More often then not, these dogs are euthanized and not even given a chance to be adopted. The harsh reality is that a large amount of the homes that these Pit Bulls come from are in the inner city and are severely abused. Despite the fact that there are a large amount of potentially adoptable dogs in pound there are a
“More than 25 million vertebrate animals are used in testing in the United States each year. When invertebrate animals are thrown into the mix, the estimated number rises to as high as 100 million” (Watson, 34). This passage shows that millions upon millions of animals are suffering and being tested on every day (Watson, 34). Animals are used as guinea pigs for experimentations of all sorts. Millions of animals die each year because scientist unfortunately test, practically everything on the animals before people.
Amy Johnson Mrs. Howard English November 16th 2012 Australian Puppy Mills Australian puppy mills are very common and a constantly growing problem. There are thousands of puppy mills all over Australia. A puppy mill also called puppy farm is literally a farm that constantly produces puppies to sell for the maximum profit available. The conditions of Australian puppy mills is horrendous and the conditions of the dogs are far worse. Thousands of dogs die in puppy mills each year.
Each year in the United States, an estimated 70 million animals were blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, and otherwise hurt and killed in the name of science. Substances that are used everyday, such as lipstick, soap, moisturisers and shower gels, may be tested on rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and other animals. These tests are mainly used to test the degree of harmfulness of products and their ingredients. No antidotes are ever given, so the animals that are injured must live with the pain. These tests are not required by law, so why would companies continue to torture peaceful animals?
H Algebra 2 Fall Exam Review 2011 Name______________________ 1. An animal shelter receives a shipment of items worth a total of $1890. Large bags of dog food are $8 each, pet blanket are $5 each, and dog toys are $4 each. There are 5 bags of dog food for each dog toy and twice as many blankets as dog toys. Set up the matrix equation to solve this system.
By comparison, the total number of sheep lost to predators was 18,300, with 13,900 of them killed by coyotes. 900 were killed by domestic dogs, and 400 were killed by eagles (more than were killed by wolves), but there is no outcry of anger because of those losses. These numbers are typical of every year since the reintroduction of wolves. In fact, the total number of predatory losses has actually decreased steadily since the beginning of available data in 1984 with 51,700 predatory losses, 38,300 of which were killed by coyotes. Even more are lost each year to other causes such as weather or disease, 21,100 in 2012, plus 3,600 dead from unknown causes.
Dogs confined in small wire cages for their entire lives, fed inadequately, kept in unheated buildings, and denied basic veterinary care. The breeding dogs are sick, wounded, and malnourished, and their lives are miserable. When their breeding usefulness is over, they may be killed or dumped. Large-scale mills do not take their older dogs to shelters, because they don’t want to draw attention to themselves. According to The Humane Society of the United States, there may be as many as 10,000 puppy mills operating across the United States.
During this same time, 73,832 people have been turned away from emergency food aid. 43,766 of them were children. This means, an estimated 1,400 children were left hungry every night! Homeless shelters in the area are also exceeding their maximum occupancy, sheltering over 6,000 families with 15,000 children a night. The sad reality is that on any given night, it can be estimated that over 700,000 people are either sleeping in a homeless shelter or on the streets.
Lend A Paw!!!!! Every year, over 6.2 million dogs die from being abused, abandoned or neglected. Not having the vet care they need, and have medical issues like epilepsy, or cancer.The only thing these poor dogs could look up too or finally have somewhere to go is our wonderful animal shelters. There are about 1,000-250,000 animal shelters around the United States. Sadly even those shelters have to euthanize animals because of the amount of them out there that need your help.
Adoption Adoption is better than abortion, it gives many children who need a home a good home. Statistics show there are over 153 million orphans who have lost one or both parents in the United States. Of the over 400,000 children who are in foster care in the U.S., 114,556 cannot be returned to their birth families and are waiting to be adopted. On average, more than 60 percent of children in foster care spend 2-5 years in the system before being adopted. Almost 20 percent spend 5 or more years before being adopted and some never get adopted.