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years ago i worked at the Nevada Humane Society. It was my job to get dogs ready for their evaluation to be adopted. I still remember my first dog. He was a pit named Diego. He was pretty mean, but I worked really hard with him. He passed all of his tests, including his food aggression test. But they still opted to euthanize him. It really hurt because in a short time I had come pretty attached to him. If I had a place to take him at that time, I probably would have taken him myself. One of the hardest things I have done was to walk him to the room to be euthanized.
Our rules were nobody under 25, no children under 12 in the home and you had to have a 6 foot fence in your yard to adopt one. Unfortunately, finding anyone that met just one of those qualifications was almost impossible. Usually it was a 22 year old gang banger who lived in an apartment with his girl and 2 young children
Thats gotta be tough, the attachment is painful a lot of dogs are like kids, I remember losing my first pet she ran away or someone kidnapped her she was very friendly a cute kitten I was 9 years old and depressed I went to school empty and sad its horrible.
I always wondered if it would be good to get kids pets, knowing the pain I felt when I lost my pet when I was younger, I wonder what age is best maybe junior high? kids get attached easy and treat the pet like their best friend at times and cant handle the loss its very tough.
they had some sociopaths who did the euthanizing at the local shelter here it was on the news a while back they said some guys wanted to be the ones to kill the pets and a video apparently caught them torturing them and enjoying hearing the cries of pain from the dog instead of just injecting them to put them down easy they were having their sadistic sick fun torturing the animals first.
I would never want that job.