More Thoughts on Shelters

     After doing the video on shelter dogs, I have a much greater appreciation for dogs than I did before. I recently found a YouTube channel called Vet Ranch (would definitely recommend checking them out, I’ll link below) and it truly breaks my heart how terrible people can be to their pets. The ranch takes in abused/neglected animals and nurses them back to health before finding them loving homes. This ranch is also a reputable one because, like mentioned in our video, they spay/neuter the animals before they are adopted.

     People can be so cruel to the creatures that love us unconditionally. You can see in some of the videos the extent of the abuse the animals have been through. The part that really spoke to me on the greatness of animals (mostly noted this with the dog videos) was how happy they were even after everything they had been through. Most of them were extremely playful and wagging their tails even in the terrible conditions they were in.

     One of the videos that I saw was of a female dog who was pregnant that the ranch took in. They took her in because she was scheduled to be euthanized. It shocked me that they would euthanize a pregnant dog, but at the same time I understood that they were doing it in order to prevent overpopulation. However, it is still completely heartbreaking that euthanizing a pregnant dog was what they felt was the only option. The ranch took her in, and let her deliver her babies (there was 12 of them!) and then they fixed her and found them all homes. It’s amazing to me what a little love can do for these animals. It inspires me to do as much as I can for them. I will be looking into ways to donate or help shelter animals. I can’t adopt right now, but hope to do so in the future.

This is my dog, Brady. Looking at him, I can't imagine how someone would want to hurt these sweet animals.

Vet Ranch website - http://vetranch.org/

YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/VetRanch