The Heartbreaking Truth: Why Many Wants To Adopt But Millions Of Dogs Are Still In Shelters

ASPCA is now on the move that aims to encourage shelters and rescue groups to adopt the philosophy “open adoptions.” They believe that most people especially those adopting dogs and other animals in shelters are good because they are saving lives.

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What they want is to remove barriers when it comes to adopting pets. Most people who have tried to adopt and got rejected can attest that the process of applying to adopt a pet purely based on conversations. Now, we have many organizations that focus on good pet and human matches. Criteria are still used, but the process is a lot more open.

For example, Humane Rescue Alliance, a shelter located in Washington uses what we call an open adoption. One of their criteria, as stated by Becca Stern is that they don’t send cats home to people who plan to declaw them. They also do background checks to make sure the people they allow their animals to go with have no terrible records with other shelter and have no history of animal abuse or neglect, whatsoever.

Many believe that this idea is an effective way to send pets to their forever homes. There were only very rare cases when things turned out to be bad, and many are supporting this.

Now, many shelters and rescue groups have merged with the goal of finding animals a home with people they have good matches with. The Patins couple sought after a pet at a D.C. shelter – Washington Animal Rescue League. WARL have merged with other shelters who now formed the Humane Rescue Alliance.

The groups found three prospects for the Patins. The introduced their puppy, Violet to all three and found a perfect match. With the first two dogs, Violet seemed shy but on the third one, a Chihuahua whom they called Whiskey proved to be instant friends with Violet. They came home with a new addition to their family. Rebekah was delighted and is still thankful up to this day that the rescue and shelter gave them the opportunity to own such an amazing dog. She said they believed and trusted her family to take care of whiskey even if they work outside and doesn’t have a yard. They were able to do so and care for their little Chihuahua just fine. “They just knew we were a good match,” says Rebekah.

This only goes to just how important it is to rescue and adopt dogs instead of buying one. If we are very much capable and willing to adopt but don’t rescue a dog or other animal from shelters or groups, they will most likely die without experiencing true love and happiness form people who could have been their forever families.

We do want every dog and animal to have the right match, but if the criteria have a bar set too high that even leaders of dog rescue, shelter and the like have a hard time to adopt one, then it may already be too much. The goal should be to find a good home with a family that is a good match for these dogs. There are far too many rescue dogs in shelters, and they each deserve a good home, not a date and slot number for the Euthanasia list.

This review is based on an article published by The Washington Post.

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