Dozens of pups killed as owners reject by dexicing

Hamilton City Council’s animal control says that dog lifes are being delivered to their care, including 100 puppies less than four weeks of age in the first three months of the year.

Puppies require intensive care and animal control says that fewer people who adopt is leaving them without choice but to sacrifice.

“We never know what will arrive on one day,” said Susan Stanford, Hamilton City Education and Education Control Manager. “One day we had 22 delivered in the first hour, including two litters.

“We accepted the litters, because we didn’t keep people away – we just don’t know what would happen if we did it or where these puppies would.

“We enter these puppies and evaluate their age and condition before making decisions about whether we are able to keep them or, unfortunately, if we need to put them to sleep.”

Stanford said the cost of keeping very young puppies is prohibitive.

“Puppies less than four weeks old usually have no teeth and still depend on their mothers, so they would have to be fed bottles several times a day, which is why it is not really realistic for us to take care of them,” she said.

“Employees would have to take the puppies home and feed them at night. We are spending taxpayer money to do this and the cost of buying puppies … It would be more than 100 puppies this year, we would have to form a bottle.”

Deciding which one lives and which dies is the demoralizing work for Stanford and his team.

“Recently, I made a veterinary morning with my team and we put 25 dogs that day,” she said. “Nine of them were very young puppies and there were some older puppies, more in the 12 -week strip.

“It’s really discouraging for me and my team. We are all here to help and our main focus should be to keep Hamilton safe from the dog’s discomfort, but we feel that we are currently the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, looking for all these puppies that people can’t take care of themselves.

“Untt controlled creation is a big problem for us.”

Stanford said many dog ​​owners simply underestimate the continuous cost of keeping their pets alive and healthy.

“We believe that much of this has been impacted by the financial situation right now, I think people do not realize how expensive it is, when they face a dog, when you take into consideration, registering, vaccinating – what happens annually – Microchips … All these things get added, at the top of the care and food of the day.”

Some owners are reluctant to desire their dogs for various reasons.

“We had some interesting people’s wish stories,” said Stanford. “We had a dog owner whose men’s dog had been classified as a threat and was forced to be designed by law.

“He didn’t want to do that because he called his own masculinity through his dog, so he left the dog with us.”

Roaming dog rounding is still the board’s main business, with 70 % of its requests last year linked to deviations.

“We have to put dogs to make room, but we have to put our adoption dogs so that our officers can bring more dogs in roaming or involved in attacks,” said Stanford.

“We had about 6500 orders last year and about 4700 of them related to roaming.”