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Updated: 10:04 AM Sep 22, 2008
Brazos Valley Residents Rescue Pets from Certain Death
The clock is ticking for hundreds of animals at a Montgomery animal shelter.
Posted: 7:19 PM Sep 19, 2008Reporter: Kristen Ross Email Address: ross@kbtx.com |
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The clock is ticking for hundreds of animals at a Montgomery animal shelter.
Thursday night, we told you that since Ike hit, dozens of abandoned pets have been taken in by the shelter as refugees and orphans, and that the shelter would have to put them down unless they could find new homes.
Friday, Brazos Valley residents stepped in to help.
"We felt bad because we saw it on the news last night that they were going to euthanize them so we thought we would come see if there's one that would match our family," College Station Resident Mary Borski said.
The Borski's found a puppy named Freckles.
"She actually found us, my son just loved her so much," Borski said.
The Montgomery County Animal Shelter put out a last minute plea to pet owners, adopt an animal--before the animal has to be put down.
The shelter has become overrun with animals from other shelters in Houston seeking shelter from the storm.
"When we heard Ike was coming, we took in hundreds of other animals from shelters, and rescue groups from South Houston and they house them here," Sandra Hanson with Friends of Montgomery County Texas Animal Shelter said.
Add to that the dozens of animals abandoned at the shelter's doors to weather the storm on their own.
"It happens every time people just expect us to take on the responsibility," LaJeane Thompson with the Montgomery County Animal Shelter said. "It's not a surprise."
What is a surprise, is how many people show up to help.
"I got 20 phone calls last night and another 30 this morning from people in College Station and Bryan wanting to come this morning and take some animals," Hanson said.
Families like the Borskis from College Station, and the Dodsons from Madisonville who adopted Maddie.
"She's part German Shepherd and not a puppy," Sandra Dodson said. "She's just really mild mannered and a sweet dog."
A sweet dog that'll now get a fresh start with a new family.
UPDATE: LeJeane Thompson with the shelter says because of Friday's turnout, no animals will have to be euthanized Friday night.
That being said, the shelter on average takes in 3,000 pets a month, roughly 200 dogs that have been staying in foster care will be available Saturday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The shelter also expects hundreds of more animals to come in later this week, as recovery efforts continue in Galveston and Houston. They are still asking for anyone needing/wanting/willing to adopt a pet to visit them at their Conroe shelter.
To get directions to the shelter, and pictures of some available pets, click on the links below.
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First of all, the MCAS didn't even charge an adoption fee for these pets. All they wanted to do was save their precious lives. How could anyone criticize the efforts to find homes, and call it guilt tripping? People SHOULD feel guilty for turning their backs on helpless animals without hope. I am ecstatic that these animals were saved.For the most part, nearly every animal who enters an shelter does not come out alive. This is a miraculous story. Now if all the ignorant pet owners would spay and neuter their animals maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. Criticisizing shelter workers is ridiculous, they have a depressing dirty and thankless job, and they love those animals. I couldn't stand to euthanize healthy adoptable animals every single day. People need to take responsibility for their pets.
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Nice ,, do you all feel vindicated for saving them while sitting to eat your steaks. Dogs are held in same respect in other countrys as that steak. Its not the animals but your want to feel like you did something. Basically all animals are the same. A pig is more intelligent then a dog. Before you come out feeling all holy look at whats really going on. a million animals die every day to feed you. so I'm thinking HYPOCRIT or as president Bush would say a hypo-criticizer
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that's a great way to make people feel guilty... pay $100 for an animal with no papers or we'll kill it... the animal shelter is like the tow trucks; a very crooked business who like to pick on people's own harmless pets. Especially since they picked up my own cat in my front yard mistaking it for another, almost killing it if I didn't arrive an hour before. I wonder if any of those pets owners will come looking for them days to come, especially when evacuees are aloud to return home.
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