Persuasive Essay On Abandoned Animals

Animal shelters

Where do abandoned animals go? Sometimes they stay on the streets but other times if pounds and animal shelters think they could be adopted they take them to the shelter. There are many types of shelters some are good some are bad, even if it sounds good like a “no kill” shelter it might be still be bad and most “no kill” shelters have a long waiting list so the animals might be on it for a long time.

According to PETA most shelters have workers who are professional and caring. At these shelters, sick and injured animals receive treatment, or if they are terribly injured or ill the workers end their suffering peacefully by euthanizing them. The animals’ living quarters are clean and dry, and the workers don 't ignore them, but help the pets when they have an emotional or physical need. These shelters don’t turn away animals because it is cruel and leaves the animals in danger, Where instead of turning away unadopted or unadoptable animals they euthanize them if their conditions are really bad. Other abandoned animals

An example of what can happen to animals being refused from an animal shelter is the story of a dog from Pennsylvania: the dog’s owner tried to get his dog into a no-kill shelter but his dog got refused so he put his dog in his pickup truck and at the next intersection he threw the dog out of the truck and ran him over, the dog got crushed by the tires, and the dog later died and the shelter workers gathered his remains. There are many other cases like this but even if the animals are accepted it is not much better, animals are caged for months, years or the rest of their lives, as animals are caged they became more withdrawn, depressed, or aggressive every day which makes their chances of adoption smaller. The conditions are so poor they are sometimes considered