Comments on: Who Let the Dogs Out? https://coralgablesmagazine.com/who-let-the-dogs-out/ The Magazine for business, culture, entertainment, and dining in Coral Gables Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:36:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ArtDirector https://coralgablesmagazine.com/who-let-the-dogs-out/#comment-29 Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:36:05 +0000 https://coralgablesthemagazine.com/?p=7527#comment-29 In reply to Marcela.

If you go to the Miami-Dade Animal Service’s website, they specify that they have reached no-kill status back in 2015 (https://www.miamidade.gov/global/news-item.page?Mduid_news=news156520350522773). This is also information that we were given by Yolanda Berkowitz, who is quoted in the article and works very closely with the shelter. However, you’ll also see on their site that they accept around 30,000 animals each year, which is absolutely way more than they can handle. We wholeheartedly agree that there is so much work still to be done – by both residents and officials!
– Lizzie Wilcox

]]> By: Marcela https://coralgablesmagazine.com/who-let-the-dogs-out/#comment-28 Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:42:29 +0000 https://coralgablesthemagazine.com/?p=7527#comment-28 This part is not really true: “This means that no healthy or treatable animals are euthanized even when the shelter is full – and that less than 10n just fine outside the shelter. percent of animals brought to the shelter are euthanized, and only if they are severely ill or untreatable.” I know many dogs that are just fine and are euthanized because they show stress or are deemed aggressive when in fact they are just stressed out and would be able to function just right outside of the shelter. The truth is that the shelter gets more dogs in that it’s able to safely adopt out. A percentage of the adopters are not good ones, they either return the dogs after just days of having got them out of the shelter, or they surrender the dogs they adopted as puppies when they are seniors, or for several other reasons too long to list. The reality is that there is a pet overpopulation that MUST be dealt with by the local authorities, passing MANDATORY spay and neuter regulations to obtain a pet license, and mandatory microchipping, or otherwise raising fees to license an unaltered pet so much that people would think about S&N as a well better option. There is so much that the community and the authorities can be done, the pets in Miami cannot wait any longer.

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