Why Do We Need Animal Rescue Organizations?

If I am being totally honest I am just trying to work myself out of a job!

My name is Daryl and I founded FurBabies Animal Rescue in January 2010. There are lots and lots of animal rescues out there but unfortunately there is ALWAYS a need for more. Why, you ask? Because there are lots and lots of homeless dogs and cats that are being killed in shelters all over the United States every day and particularly in the Southeast.

In my view there are so many people who are barking up the wrong tree (pun intended) wasting precious time complaining about the way the shelters handle the homeless pets in their counties. The county departments aren’t called Animal Control for nothing. Unfortunately they are not allowed to require the general public to spay and neuter their pets in order to control the animal population but they are allowed to euthanize the animals that come into their facilities to control the population.

If all of the well meaning folks who are complaining about how the shelters are “killing animals” would use the same efforts, breath and forums to educate the same people reading and hearing their rants to educate those people about spaying and neutering we MIGHT just make a difference in what is so heartbreaking to those of us who are in the trenches.

It is my dream that one day there will be no need for me to run a non-profit rescue because each and every dog will have a home where it is loved and cared for. The only way I can even imagine that happening is to prevent unwanted pregnancies by spaying and neutering.

-Daryl Wagner, Founder of FurBabies Animal Rescue