The Worst Shelter in Michigan....

[malta blue]

http://www.michanimalnews.com/River_Rouge.html

The Worst Shelter in Michigan
Written by: Justine DePalma
Published May 2, 2008


One Michigan animal “shelter” does not need volunteers. Services such as petfinder.com to increase adoptions are useless at this shelter. City of River Rouge runs a no frills animal “shelter”. The rules are simple, if a stray dog or cat enters the River Rouge shelter, he/she will die at the end of the stray time. There are no reprieves. The sweetest poodles, the most stunning purebred Afghan, the great family mutt all have the same fate when they enter that building, death by gassing. Animals entering the River Rouge shelter have drawn the worst shelter in the state of Michigan. It is the only shelter that killed every single animal unlucky enough to enter its doors.

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DUers...please please please find a couple of minutes to send a letter to the mayor and/or city council members of River Rouge, Michigan....

Mayor: Michael D Bowdler

City Council: Patty Campbell, Karen Ward, Derek Perry, Malcolm Moulton, Mark Pruneau, Anthony Laginess
City of River Rouge

10600 W. Jefferson Ave.
River Rouge, MI 48218
Telephone: [phone]

[truedelphi]

1. Will write letter to the mayor of River Rouge tonight Thanks so very much

[malta blue]

2. thank you...

this is one of the most twisted interpretations of a court order I have ever heard of.

[roguevalley]

3. will do. sounds like my town. :(

[malta blue]

4. thank you.

I have two rescue dogs and a rescue kitty - I can't imagine how the pet owners fear the "dog catcher" in their town.

[coriolis]

5. I have been to River Rouge. If anybody needs to give Michigan an enema...

:shrug:

[malta blue]

6. ...

:spray:

I have not been there, but I gather from your analysis.....

[truedelphi]

7. I was thinking that if this is what is happening to the kitties and doggies

In this town, Gawd only knows how humans treat humans there?!?

[noonwitch]

8. River Rouge is very poor

they can barely afford a police and fire department, and rely on backup from Detroit frequently.

The Michigan Humane Society runs a great shelter in Detroit, and the ASPCA has a good one just north of Hamtramck. Surely there is a way the city of RR can work with one of those agencies to assist them.

The MHS does euthanize animals they can't get adopted, but I adopted Katie there and they took excellent care of her. The ASPCA doesn't euthanize unless the animal is sick or too vicious to tame.

[adigal]

9. I just started doing dog rescue two months ago

and most of the shelters in the south are like this. In one county of 300,000 people last year, they euthanized 15,000 healthy young dogs. Sickening that this goes on in our country when it is affordable to spay/neuter at clinics nowadays. Just pure, disgusting willful ignorance. And almost everyone involved in rescue in the south is from the north. I am losing my faith in human beings. :(