I have to do something involving the animal shelters?
My teacher asked everyone me to write a report about animal shelters but I have no idea about what to write exactly. Should I do a certain topic about the shelter? Please if anyone has an idea please help me!
Thank you!
You could choose a shelter near you and visit them. Choose one animal to focus on, say dogs and ask the shelter several questions regarding the dogs. You can even go into the most common breed in the shelter. This would then tell you who are most likely to be the most irresponsible dog owners in your area, which you can then discuss that topic. Most shelters will gladly answer your questions and let you walk freely among the dogs. The only ones they separate are the high risk ones, ya know the ones that will bite or they are sick. You can find out how long before the dog is put up for adoption and what kind of requirements does one need to adopt. There are several issues from the killing of them to the requirement of spay and neuter. If you really do not have interest in dogs then maybe try the cats. If you are in a remote area then their will likely be chickens, rabbits, and possibly horses.
Good Luck
March 4th, 2010 at 10:23 am
You could choose a shelter near you and visit them. Choose one animal to focus on, say dogs and ask the shelter several questions regarding the dogs. You can even go into the most common breed in the shelter. This would then tell you who are most likely to be the most irresponsible dog owners in your area, which you can then discuss that topic. Most shelters will gladly answer your questions and let you walk freely among the dogs. The only ones they separate are the high risk ones, ya know the ones that will bite or they are sick. You can find out how long before the dog is put up for adoption and what kind of requirements does one need to adopt. There are several issues from the killing of them to the requirement of spay and neuter. If you really do not have interest in dogs then maybe try the cats. If you are in a remote area then their will likely be chickens, rabbits, and possibly horses.
Good Luck
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March 4th, 2010 at 10:30 am
write about the horrible conditions in some shelters, write how the animals are in desperate needs of homes. write how shelter pets are often the best bcuz they appreiciate more than bred dogs.
write how shelters take ALOT of money to open, care for and maintain, then write how little money they get in donations and how it is so hard to keep shelters open because the owners and employees are actually volunteers. write how they r always in need of volunteers and donations !
make it heartfelt and nice.
maybe everyine in your class will become a volunteer at ur local shelter, or adopt an animal!
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March 4th, 2010 at 10:54 am
If u didnt do this assignment yet, i would preferably do it on cats in the shelter more than dogs. dogs get adopted way more than cats, and statistics show that the dogs every year that are euthanized times, about 9, is the amount of cats who get euthanized per year also. People always like to see the dogs first because they are more ‘fun.’ 8-10 million adoptable cats and dogs are euthanized annualy each year. Millions more are abandoned, only to suffer from illnesses or diseases. The main problem for CAT overpopulation is their free spirited mines, they come and go quietly, more are unowned, feral, and free roaming. And cats that run away could most likely be killed by kids, aged 5-18 as jokes, or just as ‘boys being boys’, and that fact is based on many real stories. They could also be stolen, if you have an outdoor cat, and sold to places such as guruana, chile, phillipenes, etc for meat or prey for dogs that are being forced into dogfighting. But thats just an idea.
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business wire features, google, yahoo, ask.com, aspca website, euthanization websites.
March 4th, 2010 at 11:05 am
there are all sorts of things you can write about, depending on how long your report has to be.
• daily life – interview & shadow a volunteer/staff member for a day. write about what they do & what kind of person it takes to have to do it every day.
• the different types of animals brought in – 25% of shelter animals are pure-bred, did you know? (you can bring pure-breed rescue groups into it as well since so many help local shelters.) and it’s not all about dogs & cats…we have taken in everything from litters of pedigreed show pups to the average housecat to bald eagles to donkeys to peacocks to ferrets to cougars to fish and darned near everything in between. you can go over all sorts of types of animals, what it takes to care for the variety & just why they end up at the shelters to begin with & what happens to them all. (like adoption, returned to owners if it was a stray, getting sent to a zoo or animal sanctuary, being euthanized, etc.)
• cruelty cases – ask if they have a cruelty investigator & talk to them about some of their experiences & what they see as the best way to ensure these things don’t continue.
• funding – my shelter costs approx $20,000 each MONTH to operate – and we’re a small one. you can ask about expenses & how much it costs to keep your local one going, then talk about ways they raise the funds to do so. there are some very creative ways to keep our places open. and tell just what the average person can do to help as well.
• spaying & neutering – it’s the single most important thing people can do to keep the pet population down. talk about the sheer numbers of animals in shelters & ways that can be minimized (like neutering or education programs to teach people better animal care or better public programs to help people care for their pets, etc.)
• a dog’s/cat’s life – you can get the info and background on one particular animal in the shelter and tell it’s tale starting with the family it came from, how it ended up at the shelter, what it does there each day and how it handles being homeless, and what kind of home it’s looking for. if you’re able to fictionalize this report at all, do it from the dog’s/cat’s point of view as if he’s writing.
• ask to talk to a family that’s successfully adopted a pet – talk about why they went to a shelter, what they found there, their first impressions & what they had to do to adopt.
hope some of these ideas help. it should be an interesting paper – would love to hear what you end up doing it on.
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shelter mgr/vet tech