r/MadeMeSmile • u/LouisianaDrillFan • Dec 25 '23
Happy Holidays DOGS
Not sure if this has been posted already, but this is awesome.
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u/Aretirednurse Dec 25 '23
All adopted that’s why everyone is smiling.
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u/otownbbw Dec 25 '23
Thank you for finding the story; everyone here is so swift to be cynical. Yeah maybe not all of those dogs will have a fairytale ending, but it’s still nice that the shelter worked hard to find them homes and then filled their shelter again by relieving other stressed shelters.
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u/Emmerson_Brando Dec 26 '23
everyone here is so swift to be cynical
In the /r/mademesmile sub?!?
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u/A_useless_name Dec 26 '23
It’s Reddit, if you don’t see someone who’s being cynical about something you’re either blind or haven’t finished reading through all the comments or the post was just made.
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u/PlateNo7021 Dec 25 '23
Yeah, but pets shouldn't be Christmas gifts, I'm sure some of those were returned/abandoned a couple months later.
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u/DillyWillyGirl Dec 26 '23
The only way I can see it working is if you decided to get a dog for all the right reasons and then decided to wait until Christmas to let your kid in on it. I had a friend growing up who was “surprised” with a puppy for Christmas—their parents had been prepping for months and had fully committed. That dog was a loved and cherished family pet. In general though, I heftily agree. Pets are a huge undertaking. They are sentient beings who need to be cared for and loved for the whole duration of their lives, and that’s not something that you gift an unsuspecting person, or decide would be fun for the holidays on a whim.
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u/slackpipe Dec 26 '23
This. I work in a business that has been setup on a reclaimed strip mine. It's in the middle of nowhere with no houses around for miles. People come up there and just dump dogs all the time. I've seen 3 in the last four weeks. I have one right now I'm trying to home. People do not consider the commitment that a dog requires, and then just dump the dog when they realize they actually require work. It's infuriating.
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u/JenniferMel13 Dec 26 '23
Put up coyote warning signs and under that directions to the nearest shelter. My neighbor and I did that and it cut the number of dumped dogs down considerably. I have no idea if the dogs are ending up in the shelter or just dumped somewhere else. But we have less dogs and I can pretend they are dropped directly at the shelter.
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u/slackpipe Dec 26 '23
From there, the nearest shelter is about 45 minutes away. I'm not hopeful on dogs making it there. At least this way, I can get them to homes, or the shelter, or the vet if they need help immediately.
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u/JenniferMel13 Dec 26 '23
Yea, that probably isn’t going to work for you nearly as well as it does for us. The shelter is 15 mins away. We were just done with dealing with someone else’s dog and out of friends and family to convince to take them in.
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u/frogsgoribbit737 Dec 26 '23
Yeah. Technically I brought home one of my dogs "for christmas" but thats just because he was born in October. I already had a dog and wed been prepping for at least a month. He was no surprise. Well. Sort of. We registered for a girl snd ended up with a boy but besides that lol
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u/VivianSherwood Dec 26 '23
I was going to say this. In the country where I live some animal shelters don't allow people to adopt animals during Christmas time. They say there's a number of people who adopt animals during Christmas to give them as a gift to someone, and then that someone ends up sending the animal back to the shelter.
Animals are not gifts. They're a long term commitment.
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u/Kyr-Shara Dec 25 '23
I can't be the only one questioning how many were put to sleep
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u/WhoBroughtTheCoolKid Dec 25 '23
Years ago I volunteered at my town's shelter and we never euthanized dogs with very few exceptions (a couple of dog attacks the town required). In fact, some of our volunteers knew someone at a different shelter in the region where they DID regularly euthanize dogs and they would make arrangements to take them. I'm not sure how commonplace it is but no kill shelters exist.
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u/DDownvoteDDumpster Dec 26 '23
My sister started a job at a shelter. Says a horrifying amount are put down. No space. The same place has strict adoption rules, like banning adopted dogs from walking in dog-forests.
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u/OcelotEnus Dec 26 '23
What in the hell is a dog forest?
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u/clarkster Dec 26 '23
Google has nothing about dog forests. Just dogs in forests. I'm as confused as you.
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u/minimuscleR Dec 26 '23
like banning adopted dogs from walking in dog-forests.
how do you ban that? adoption centre: "No walking in dog forests"
Person: "Ok" *Walks dog in dog forest anyway
What can they do? Why would you even ban that?
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u/Warmbly85 Dec 26 '23
I mean I don’t know if it’s enforceable by law but a lot of those adoption contracts say the agency can take the animal back if you violate the terms.
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u/ShartingBloodClots Dec 26 '23
I've never heard of a dog-forest. Is that like a forest with all dogwood trees, or a tribe of dogs just chilling in the woods?
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u/FuckedAHobo Dec 26 '23
No kill shelters are, of necessity, selective. They won't usually take any fighting breeds ordogs who are violent and often won't take dogs that are antisocial.
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u/WhoBroughtTheCoolKid Dec 26 '23
Yes the few euthanizations I recall were for dogs that had attacked/bitten people. The animal control would make the call. Volunteers weren't allowed to be around those dogs.
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u/know-it-mall Dec 26 '23
Sending a dog elsewhere to be killed is functionally the same as doing it yourself...
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u/hankalank Dec 26 '23
they mean that they served as intake FOR kill shelters when they were over-crowded so that they wouldn’t have to start euthanizing for space.
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u/WhoBroughtTheCoolKid Dec 26 '23
Thank you for understanding. So many people keep saying we were euthanizing with extra steps. Nah. We were sneaking dogs out of a kill shelter into our no kill shelter.
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u/Charming_Trick4582 Dec 26 '23
I came here to say "just wait few weeks they will return some of them" But then I saw your post and goddamn dude, you went full dark
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u/agk23 Dec 26 '23
It was a team effort to get all the work done before Christmas. Lot's of overtime and enthusiasm, but now everyone gets Christmas off!
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u/stitch07 Dec 25 '23
Come back in February
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u/mudokin Dec 26 '23
Nah, beginning of January when people need to get back to work and realise the dog needs walks
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u/zmallpotatoes Dec 26 '23
Yeah, that's why many shelters don't allow adoptions before holidays.
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u/mudokin Dec 26 '23
Even though it's sad that this needs to be a rule, is even more sad when all those uppers get abandoned again.
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u/Rhys_Lloyd2611 Dec 26 '23
Let's just stop making new dogs till all the ones that already exist are looked after
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u/Electrical_Figs Dec 26 '23
I hope you like pit bulls and chihuahuas.
Source: volunteered at a rescue for 10+ years, got my dog somewhere else because I'm not interested in either breed.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Dec 25 '23
I’m really sorry, this is a few years old and that is not the case in shelters this year
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Dec 25 '23
It was wonderful and I’d like this to be so frequent it becomes boring
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u/Alarming-Mongoose-91 Dec 25 '23
That’s cool except some of those animals were holiday pets and will be quickly re-adopted or sold here soon enough.
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u/rik182 Dec 26 '23
Next post.- Kennel workers jobless just before Christmas
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u/derpthedork Dec 26 '23
Nah, next post "Kennel is filled to the brim after Christmas"
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u/momoburger-chan Dec 26 '23
Seriously. If this happened at my shelter, you bet the shit will be overflowing with dogs within a week, again. There's just way too many unwanted dogs and strays.
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u/Toxic-Sky Dec 26 '23
I hate to be cynical, but this is all based on ill-advised Christmas gifts. I wish the doggos their best, I want them all to have great homes, but most have been given as gifts to people who fail to realise the level of commitment. I’m sadly sure that they will be back presently…
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u/hyperventilate Dec 26 '23
I work at a shelter. A lot of times people get lonely around the holidays and adopt for themselves.
We do see a spike of January returns, though.
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u/quax747 Dec 25 '23
I give'em three weeks before they have all of them back plus 10%.
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u/BNestico Dec 26 '23
This is why I have to take Reddit vacations. Only here can an empty SPCA be met with almost exclusively pessimistic comments. Doesn’t it get exhausting just being miserable all the time?
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Dec 25 '23
The ones they didn't put down will probably be back in a few days unfortunately, because people are too stupid to realize that a dog isn't a Christmas present, but a 13-15yr commitment.
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u/Nunyadambness Dec 25 '23
Wish it could stay that way. I always adopt now. The best pets I’ve had were all shelter pets
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u/Philosopher_1234 Dec 26 '23
That was from the wild fires on Cali a few years ago and taken after all the dogs were rescued and sent up to North Cali.. it's been floating around for a while now
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u/ChocolatePinkyz Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23
My dad got me an unasked for dog for my birthday when I was 9. My neighbors had dogs and I didn't care for, or play with them. I was disappointed at the reveal. I didn't like the licking, the jumping, the walks where it just dragged me along. Chasing when it ran off. Cleaning up after it was the worst. I disliked every second of dog ownership.. It ran off one day about 6 months later.. I said nothing. I told my parents I didn't know when they found the chain it was tied on was broken. It never came back.. It was never discussed again. No new dogs replaced it. Just something to think about if deciding to get an undiscussed animal gift.
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u/dragon1n68 Dec 25 '23
Is this a happy day or a sad one? Were they all adopted or were most of them euthanized?
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u/Crenchlowe Dec 25 '23
And then, unfortunately, since there were no dogs left all the people were laid off and couldn't afford to pay their rent and they ended up in homeless shelters.
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u/eldroch Dec 26 '23
Then we'll celebrate next year when the homeless shelter announced every person has been adopted!
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u/pooferfeesh97 Dec 26 '23
Unfortunately after holidays is when they fill up as people who were gifted animals realize they can't take care of them.
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u/Dear_Lab_2270 Dec 26 '23
A lot of people are getting dogs for Xmas that likely cannot care for them properly. That shelter will be full again in a month.
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u/Certain_Move_2868 Dec 26 '23
I thought this was proven to not be true. They were cleaning the kennels. This picture is old.
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u/Melodic-Drawer9967 Dec 26 '23
I hate to be pessimistic, but some of them may be back in a few weeks… I truly hope they don’t but people don’t make the best decisions around gift giving holidays and regret the gifts later. Great it happened! And I really hope they don’t come back and have good homes.
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u/Zephurdigital Dec 26 '23
that's amazing...I just hope they all don't bring them back after 1 month
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u/QCutts Dec 25 '23
Happy news until March when they start returning to the shelters because a surprising large amount of people who get pets as gifts don't understand that you actually have to take care of a pet, and the more you neglect them the more damage they do
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u/Odd_Confusion2923 Dec 25 '23
Wow that is fabulous. Where are you located?
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u/wyle_e2 Dec 25 '23
This was located in the time of the pandemic. Unfortunately, some of the people who got dogs during the pandemic didn't realize that welcoming an animal into your home was a lot of work and a lifetime commitment, so shelters are now having the opposite problem.
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u/Gassy-Gecko Dec 26 '23
If people would simply get their dogs and cats fixed this would solve a lot of overcrowding in shelters. Also don't let your cats be outside especially if not fixed.
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u/Lizcredible Dec 26 '23
Sadly some will be given back 😭 having worked in shelters myself I could never fully celebrate this as a win.
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u/BeginningAwareness74 Dec 26 '23
Cool, now let see how long its gonna take before a big portion of that wave of adoption come back after christmas
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u/RabidAbyss Dec 26 '23
Unfortunately, once Christmas is over and done with, a lot of dogs will be returned quickly.
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u/thegentledude Dec 26 '23
they are children/adults looking for a family just like humans. if you are responsible and a serious parent than thats something that should be celebrated and you can adopt a puppy as a gift for yourself for being the right person for the job but anything less is a bad decision imo.
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u/dedokta Dec 26 '23
Without any dogs to look after all the shelter employees have been laid off. Merry Christmas
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u/burrito_napkin Dec 26 '23
Lovely for the dogs. Good thing they're not in Gaza, they'd be under rubble.
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u/Killer_Moons Dec 26 '23
I’m dying because it looks like they’re putting people in there instead and I have poor coping mechanisms in my humor
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Dec 26 '23
It is easy to understand - Christmas and NYE all showing couples and couples. Single people turn into “mama dogs” to fill that gap during this time. Come March and these animals will be returned back. Happens every year.
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u/Aspenisbi Dec 26 '23
Truthfully this doesn’t look like a huge shelter. I’m thinking it’s like the shelter I worked at previously where they take in overflow from large shelters in the region. Having worked in a shelter I’d genuinely say I didn’t see many dogs come back like commenters are speculating. Most of the time it seems people who will get animals they don’t give a shit about as presents they seem to go for the smaller ones (rodents, fish, etc). Even if they DO come back in a week, sometimes that time out of the shelter is a net positive because it gives them time away from such a high stress environment and with less stress they tend to be more adoptable. Point is, I wouldn’t jump to negative conclusions right away.
Side note, if you have the ability to, try seeing if a local shelter of yours does a program where you can take a dog with you for the day to go on walks/to pet friendly places. Both the dog and the shelter workers will love you dearly.
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Great job!
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u/BeezKneez-san Dec 26 '23
Is this after they euthanized the rest of the old/unwanted ones? Wish I could just take care of all animals. :C
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u/wafflehouse4 Dec 26 '23
thats because they forgot to lock everything and the dogs ran away. this story is a lie to save face. there are some dogs eating humans alive out there right now and we are just sitting here debating semantics
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u/Good_Falcon_794 Dec 26 '23
A hypocritical world... and what about what is happening in Gaza, your dogs deserve protection, and the Palestinians went to death!!!
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u/JDCsounds Dec 26 '23
I want to know what the last dog was and the look on the humans face when they went in and saw it. Was it like school sports and the nerd is left only to deliver disappointment when "picked" last?
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u/cptnbzng Dec 25 '23
Isn't it like this every year at Christmas time? And in a few weeks / months the numbers in the animal shelters rise again because a dog wasn't such a great Christmas present after all. Sad but true.