Below is the text of a message I found in my inbox when I checked my email this morning.

“We reluctantly need to find a new home for our female cat. She is about 2 years old. She showed up on our doorstep a couple winters ago, and we gave her a home. She is spayed but not declawed. She is mostly white with a bit of black and orange.

We are having a baby and can lo longer keep her.

Please respond, with interest, questions or I can send pics if requested.

Thanks”

It came to me through a Yahoo freecycle group I belong to. You know, an email based group who share offers of unwanted items with other members of the group to attempt to keep items that are still in usable condition out of landfill sites. You may belong to a similar group in your area.

Now I have a serious problems with the above email, and since you have read it you probably do too! But I will illustrate my problem with it for those of you who have just landed here randomly

“WE ARE HAVING A BABY AND CAN NO LONGER KEEP HER” You’re kidding me, right?

What IS it with these people who think that they should give up their pets because they are having children? Is the decision to bring children into the world not supposed to be a sign of maturity and ability to accept responsibility for someone other than yourself?

To the writer of the above email and those who think like them, I have this to say; If you are planning on having a child don’t you think you should be capable of finding time to feed a cat and change it’s litter box? Do you not think that you can work less than ten minutes of actual physical time in a day to clean a litter box, and fill water and food dishes into your schedule? If you are about to have a baby don’t you think you should be capable of such basic time management?

Oh, and here’s something else for you to think about, if that cat were an older sibling, would you be rehoming it because there was a baby on the way? Of course you wouldn’t! So tell me, why would you think that it is okay to dispose of a cat you have been caring for for two years, just because there’s a baby on the way? Was THAT the commitment you made when you took the cat into your home and made it your pet?

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK

Janette

June 20, 2011   //   Posts by Viktor   //   1 Comment   //  

Happ y Father’s day to all you pet Dad’s out there!

Yesterday as I was just sitting down to write the blog, my phone rang. A friend had gone out to bring her garbage can in from the curb and to her surprise found that someone had dumped a tiny puppy in her trash bin. She called me immediately and we went and got the little pup whom we have named Angel.

Angel, according to vets is only 5 or 6 weeks old. She is in relatively good health, but was very hungry when found. After feeding her and settling her down in the playpen we keep on hand for puppies, she slept through the night. This morning it was a very excited little brown puppy who bit my toes to wake me.

I think Angel found our home a little intimidating when she first arrived, she spent most of last evening sleeping in my husbands lap and was wary of approaching the other dogs. This morning however, she seems to have forgotten her previous apprehension and is busy trying to get the big dogs to play with her, and of course getting into everything with typical puppy enthusiasm.

Vets believe Angel to be a Lab/Collie cross which means she will grow into a medium to large sized dog. Angel will need a home where someone is home during the day. She was taken from her mother too early and exhibits some separation anxiety when left alone.

Angel will need a foster or forever home. The usual Let’s Adopt Conditions apply:

1.) The applicant MUST have another animal, and that animal MUST be spayed or neutered.

2.) Angel will live inside the home not in the yard.

3.) Angel will be fed a raw food diet. (for information on raw feeding, see rawfed.com)

Anyone wishing to adopt or foster Angel, should contact:

janetehamilton@bell.net

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK!

Janette

Yesterday we released the results of Let’s Adopt Canada’s first annual calendar photo competition. Once again congratulations to the winners! The calendar is now in the stages of being set for print so go to the finalists album, and tell us which month you think each photo should appear.

That having been said, since we are in the print setting stages we have decided to offer our fellow Canadian rescue and advocacy groups a chance to get any events they have planned for 2012 into the calendar. Please send me the details of your event, the place, and time, and we will place it in the calendar so fellow Canadians can plan to attend. Information about 2012 events should be sent to:

janettehamilton@bell.net

These listings are free of charge for CANADIAN rescues and advocacy groups.

Please note: If you run a Canadian animal related business which DOES NOT sell animals and supports rescue and the no kill philosophy, we have ad space available in our calendar for a nominal fee. Inquiries about ad pricing can be sent to the aforementioned email address.

UPCOMING PHOTO & GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPETITIONS

Greeting Card Competition – Dust off your camera and get ready to snap a few great shots! Beginning July 1st, 2011 we will be looking for photos that make us smile! Is your pet a greeting card pet? Would a picture of him or her brighten up someone’s day? We are looking for great artistic photos of your pet. Photos that say “are you having a bad day? Well smile and look at this adorable pet” or that say “man I ate too much Christmas turkey!” or maybe even “I am filling in for the Easter Bunny!” Be creative! Above all make sure you and your pet spend some quality time together getting that perfect photo!

Graphic T-shirt Design Competition -  We want the world to know that Let’s Adopt Canada members care! What better way than to display your association proudly by wearing a great graphic tee? I’d wear one if I had one, wouldn’t you? Beginning August first we will open submissions for our Graphic Tee Design Competition. We want you to design a T-shirt that says Let’s Adopt Canada cares! It must contain the Let’s Adopt Canada Logo (logo will be supplied for download when competition opens.) as well as our tag line, but the rest is all YOUR imagination. Again BE CREATIVE! Make it eyecatching, make it a design that says WE CARE! Happy designing!

I am taking this weekend off so there will be no Saturday or Sunday blogs this week. I will be making trips in the surrounding countryside searching for animals in distress in areas that are known for dumping. Should you need our assistance, I will be reachable, just leave me a message!

Have a great weekend everybody!

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK!

Janette

Well it’s official! The calendar competition winners have been chosen! Oh what a job it was! We had some great submissions to choose from, and you guys did not make it easy on us. It was tough to choose just thirteen photos, we wish we could have used them all! Unfortunately there are only twelve months in a year! Here is a short video featuring the finalists:

We have chosen the cover photo but we need YOU to assign a month to each photo. We are asking all our members to go to the photo album and let us know what month each photo should appear.

We are excited to see the finished product. Remember if you see one of your photo submissions in the album that means it has made it into the calendar, and we need your snail mail address to send you your free copy! Please send mailing information to:

janettehailton@bell.net

If your photo did not make it into this years calendar, don’t be sad, we will have more photo competitions coming soon and you will get a chance to try again! To everyone who submitted a photo of their pet, thank you for perticipating, we will let you know when you can order the finished product. To our winners, CONGRATULATIONS! We will let you know when your calendar is ready for mailing!

Here’s the winning cover shot:

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK!

Janette

We are going to leave Canada for today so that we may speak of concerns over an event taking place in Europe. EURO DOG SHOW 2012 is scheduled to take place in Bucharest, Romania in October 2012. Normally we would not be this up in arms about a country holding a dog show, but when it comes to Romania all bets are off.

Romania recently made international news in the animal world when they proposed a plan to reduce the population of stray dogs on the streets of the city of Bucharest by killing them.

Bucharest, Romania Proposes Law That Would Legalize Killing Stray Dogs

In this day and age when so many of us are fighting to end the needless killing, and promote spay and neuter surgeries, Romania wants to take a step backward and make it legal to kill strays. The fact that they are now scheduled to hold a show which is supposed to promote dogs is hypocrisy at it’s finest!

It is clear that in Romania dogs are either an asset, or a throwaway commodity. Purebreds are praised while just around the corner someone is murdering an innocent animal for the crime of having no home. Supporting this dog show by attending would be supporting the suffering of hundreds of animals, but apparently Romanian authorities did not see the irony in this when planning and promoting their event.

Personally I would have to say that a country in which dogs are disposable at the convenience of humans, is no place for a dog show of any sort. Thousands of animal lovers all over the world agree, and are calling for a cancellation of the show.  One Let’s Adopt member expressed her disgust by posting the following on the EURO DOG Show 2012 Facebook page :

“Romania is becoming frightened of the media exposing their mass killings!! They should have thought of exposure well before they made this awful decision! This news is going global. Any animal lovers against Romanian brutality contact your local European tv networks with emails & radio stations too! Everyone can do their bit to pressure Romania into changing the way they handle animals! We stand united against Romania!”

We agree! What’s more? We have lots of time to band together and put pressure on the Romanian government to do the right thing in dealing with it’s stray street animals. Don’t sit back and allow Romania’s hypocrisy to continue, TAKE ACTION. Let’s let Romania know that we will not stand idly by while they murder some innocent animals and make money off the backs of others!

Until Tomorrow Remember

BE THE CHANGE YOU SEEK!

Janette