Euthanized Animals Used in Pet Food!

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I used to work for a chicken processing plant. The unused parts and bones went in a bin that was shipped to the feed mill down the road to be process for animal food.
 
I had read about this before. Very disturbing. But not surprising. One of the many reasons why I don't feed processed pet food.
 
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Funny how this upsets people but yet people drink treated sewer water. Which people void out medication and diseases from feces. Many medication remains in treated water.
 
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Well, I think it's recycling. They do not waste leftovers and animals do not tell the difference and they have less taste buds than we do. Humans have 2 times more taste buds than dogs do yet dogs have way better sense of smell, usually the ones with long noses. Where are you going to put all that dead animals? At the dump? That wouldn't be a good idea. It's the human way of cleaning things up like birds, vultures and other animals eat roadkill or dead animals is nature way of cleaning things up.

The shelter pets are due to overpopulation and not enough advertising to place them to new homes. They do not have the money, which is why they are a non profit organization. I prefer no kill shelters if we ever have to surrender animals to new homes.
 
"no-kill" shelters are misleading. By virtue of placing strict requirements on what dogs/cats they accept into the shelter, those that are not accepted into the shelter are then left to whatever other resources might be available. Only those that are healthy and have a high possibility of adoption are placed. "No-kill" does not really mean - "no animals die".

That said, I think the idea behind "no-kill" shelters has a place and can be helpful. But people need to look beyond what the facility calls themself and see actually how and what they're doing.
 
Babyblue said:
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Funny how this upsets people but yet people drink treated sewer water. Which people void out medication and diseases from feces. Many medication remains in treated water.
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Something can be done to stop having so many dogs and cats euthanized.
If people had their pets neuter or spay there would not dead dog and cats in pet food! And it would great if people adopted a pet from a shelter instead of breeder , puppy mill, or a back yard breeder.
 
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"no-kill" shelters are misleading. By virtue of placing strict requirements on what dogs/cats they accept into the shelter, those that are not accepted into the shelter are then left to whatever other resources might be available. Only those that are healthy and have a high possibility of adoption are placed. "No-kill" does not really mean - "no animals die".

That said, I think the idea behind "no-kill" shelters has a place and can be helpful. But people need to look beyond what the facility calls themself and see actually how and what they're doing.
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Depends what you are talking about. Most county run shelters put them down if no one adopts for a long time.

The non profit organizations usually are no kill shelters which they take in pets and they generally have better attention with pets in foster homes until their permanent home is found. Our 2 cats were surrendered 2 years ago (due to our 2 kids are allergic to cats) to a pet rescue organization and they display them in different areas until their home is found. We saw them at the pet store once.
 
More and more shelters - including the one covering the county in which it is located and with which I volunteer - do NOT PTS due to lack of space only, and/or have time limits. Actually both this place and another one I know of in a county close to me specify that there is not a time limit on the animals in the facility.

Many "no-kills" are technically networks of foster homes - true. Other "no-kill" places are actual buildings.
 
sequoias said:
Depends what you are talking about. Most county run shelters put them down if no one adopts for a long time.

The non profit organizations usually are no kill shelters which they take in pets and they generally have better attention with pets in foster homes until their permanent home is found. Our 2 cats were surrendered 2 years ago (due to our 2 kids are allergic to cats) to a pet rescue organization and they display them in different areas until their home is found. We saw them at the pet store once.
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There is a no kill cat shelter not far from me , and if a cat is not adopted it end up living at the shelter , the cats that are adoptable are not kept in a cage, they roam around the shelter . I have recuses 2 cats and the shelter found homes for both cats.
 
This is a major reason why it's important to adopt from a shelter rather than a pet store.

Laura
 
Lau2046 said:
This is a major reason why it's important to adopt from a shelter rather than a pet store.

Laura
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They don't belong to the pet store....they display them AT the pet store from a rescue organization. Thats one way to get more foot traffic to find someone to adopt them. This is not the same as animals belonging to the pet store.

Vet care, food and others are based on donations from people. We donated $50 to surrender them. They require a minimum of $50 to donate for their needs.

If they want to find people to adopt from a shelter, they need MORE foot traffic from pet lovers like bring them to a pet store or something. Dogs and cats can be trained to become friendlier as long they got a professional dog/cat whisperer to fix the mental issues with them. I just hate to see them go to heaven for no reason. We adopted a dog named Kyle and he was an English Setter and he passed away in 2007 at 14 years old and he was from an animal shelter.

Otherwise, theres pros and cons with everything.
 
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