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| - We lost one of our family dogs during a move. He was 15, partially blind, mostly deaf, and completely unfamiliar with the new environment. So we panicked when he slipped out of the yard in search of my parents (his owners) when they were just inside the house unpacking. After spending 5 days by 4 families on different shifts, handing out fliers and posting them up, visiting the animal foundation everyday, and checking all the social media online that we could think of, he was finally picked up by animal control, thank god! It had been a blistering 110F outside for all 5 days he's been missing. Every time I lied down in bed I would cry thinking about how he's out there scared, tired and hungry, and I'm here sleeping soundly in bed. So naturally, I did nothing but look for him whenever I had the time.
Animal foundation does an excellent job posting missing dog's pictures online. It doesn't make up for visiting the place to look for your pet in person, because sometimes it's not updated for a whole day or two, but our dog's pic got up on there about 10 hours after he was picked up.
When I was there, a few things happened. I found our family pet (yay!). A few people turned in lost pets. A few people surrendered their own pets. 2 families came in looking for their lost pet. Lastly, one guy came in crying because he had to put his dog down. I can't even begin to describe how heart-wrenching it was watching him in tears, sobbing, and holding his dog like a baby, whispering kisses and goodbyes probably for the millionth time. I don't know if I could ever work in that place. I was only there for an hour and so much happened. I had to step out while I waited for the staff to prepare the paperwork for my dog, because that scene just made me excessively sad about how that could have been me and my dog.
I read some concerns by people that they shouldn't trust this place and I understand. I spent every day looking in their DOA books (dead on arrival and mercy killing) expecting the worse because my dog is blind and deaf so it wouldn't be surprising if he was hit by a car or got too sick and injured. One of those days I was there on my routine check for my dog, a lady came in happily saying she saw her cat's picture put up on the site a day ago and she's sure it's her cat, but she couldn't find her when she went into the back to look for her. So one of the staff there looked in their computer and told her that her cat was actually euthanized because she got too sick. When asked how long ago was she brought in, they said 11 days ago... Needless to say, she left crying. But I had to ask myself: did the staff seriously take 10 days to put the cat's picture up, only to have it euthanized because it got too sick? 11 days is a long time. Perhaps the cat never got posted until it was a bit too late because it was in recovery/surgery the entire time; she just never made it out of recovery... Whatever the reason, it's why I went in every day in person to check for my dog as well as checked online.
With that said, I am still thankful to animal foundation. There are things that happened there that was regrettable, but understandable. They receive 50, maybe 100 lost pets a day. Some get injured and sick. You can't always expect things to go perfectly. But they still saved hundreds and reunited them with their families. That's the most they can do. Forever grateful to animal foundation and animal control.
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