HELP A LOCAL DOG! local Rescue groups, OHS

These are my words and not those of the shelter. I'm just a volunteer who cares about the local homeless dogs

WE are FLOODING THE market with dogs from Texas and California, and nice local dogs aren't finding homes and are sitting/ deteriorating in shelters.

Even Rescue groups that MCAS used to be able to rely on no longer "have space" for these local dogs that need to get out of the kennel environment. SO SAD!  

If you want to "save a dog", foster for a local rescue group that is trying to help the local dogs. Or adopt a local shelter dog 

PLEASE whoever you adopt, Be savvy and allow the dog time to decompress and feel safe and stable - don't just give up on it like so many people do these days)

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MCAS  needs more Foster homes,  RESCUE groups and Oregon Humane Society especially to help more of these LOCAL homeless dogs. NOW.  Hoping that someday OHS will see local and Oregon dogs as a better opportunity to rescue than out of state dogs.

The MCAS dog population should NOT have to be in an

"Emergency Mode" (ie: needing to euthanize for space) in order for OHS to help out more! Over the years as a volunteer, I've watched numerous really nice large active dogs start to go downhill and sometimes  become kennel crazy (even though they were at that time being well-cared for by staff and volunteers) in the county Troutdale shelter: dogs that would have been adopted into a home quickly had OHS offered to take them instead of the cute (poodle puppy or whatever easy dog) that it chose.

-OHS should be filling in and doing MCAS spay surgeries so that local community MCAS (at least female) dogs don't go to new home intact. OHS could do more of the other surgeries/dentals that would benefit the local  county mcas dogs.

-UPDATE Mar 16, 2023  - a contract was recently signed and OHS will soon be doing spay/neuter for MCAS animals one day a week!

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Oregon Humane Society has so many more advantages/resources to help these local dogs: 

-OHS has a new Medical facility to care for needs, rooms available within the shelter to have time-outs to decompress

-Marketing and Public Relations to attract good adopters AND a population sector that is proud to adopt/support from OHS but would never adopt from a "County Pound". MCAS is truly the underdog.

- A  Behavior training department to work with under-socialized, frightened, insecure or otherwise just not ready to be adopted dogs; space and resources (like the running group) to exercise active  dogs

- A location that is closer to more adopters and more volunteers

and a much more attractive, specious facility (which attracts adopters, and donors) that has all the amenities that MCAS shelter lacks.

 

Rather than just "cherry picking" a few desirable dogs from MCAS as they have routinely done for many years,  OHS ought to be routinely be helping out with some of the dogs that may take longer to get adopted, and more of the young active dogs that come into MCAS.  Save lives!