There will be no Merry Christmas for dogs surrendered to MDAS

Dogs are not fungible. They are not trash that you throw out when preparing your home for Christmas. Tell that to those who reside in the Miami Dade Community, and to others who surrender their dogs to high kill shelters like MDAS. Dogs at the shelter, wonderful dogs, are being killed to make room for the onslaught of owner surrenders. Do you know that a dog can be killed before you even make it out of the building? Oh, he or she will find a loving home. There are approximately 500 dogs at MDAS and owner surrenders get no stray hold. People let their dogs stray, do not spay or neuter. Pregnant dogs have their pups aborted, recently one full term. It is a horror. Do not get a dog if you are not prepared to care for it properly. Do not adopt a dog and return it the next day as if it were a pair of shoes. Say good bye to Fido if you are thinking about surrendering. A lethal injection will ensure that Fido never finds a new home.

"THIS IS THEIR REALITY!
WAKE UP - REALITY CHECK!100+ Abandoned dogs of Everglades Florida (old photo)
This is a photo posted by the Miami Dade animal control shelter. The dogs you see in this photo are all owner surrenders taken in as people prepared for their holiday vacations. This shelter has over 500 animals and no available runs. The dogs were tied up as they came in until something could be figured out.

We post this because every single shelter is experiencing the same thing. Every year at Thanksgiving and again at Christmas the shelters are overflowing with owner turn-in as people go on vacation and do not want to board their dogs or cats.

This is a REAL problem! Adopting a pet is adopting a life. So when you talk to someone that's thinking about buying a dog, tell them to first take a stroll through their local shelter before making that decision. Millions of animals will die this year because their owners were irresponsible. Most of those could be saved if people would stop buying from pet stores and stop breeding until no more lives are lost. Please do everything you can to convince your friends and family to rescue a dog from a rescue organization or from a local shelter. And also try to educate everyone that you can on being a responsible pet owner. Dropping your pet at a kill shelter should not even be a consideration.

What will shelters like Miami Dade and shelters just like it all in the country have to do to make space? Well we all know the answer to that. Most of the dogs that you see in this photo will never make it out alive."