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Shanghaiist is an animal lover who advocates any kind of animal aid activity in China. Which is why we were overjoyed to hear the news of a new stray animal shelter -- one of the city's biggest -- in Minhang District. The shelter offers a host of services: people can contact the centre to adopt stray dogs and cats or abandoned pets, there will be weekend adoption days, medical treatment will be administered to the stray animals, and so on.
While this is all commendable, we're a fraction worried about the effectiveness of some of these policies. In fact, it came as no surprise to hear that the animal rescue centre is now refusing to take stray animals (news in Chinese) starting January 1 -- just three weeks after the opening.
The 200 square-metre facility has already taken in more than 60 animals, with 70% of them coming directly from domestic pets left by owners. “We can’t operate appropriately now because people just keep dumping their own pets here,” said Zhou Min, one of the founders of the centre. “We have to call off the service for a while since we have more animals arriving than those getting adopted out.”
It’s surely a good thing that there is a large shelter for homeless animals in a city of 5 million stray cats, but making an announcement to take any animals in for whatever reason, without imposing guidelines and conditions, is not the way to run a successful pet shelter in the long run.
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RULES ARE GOOD AND SHOULD BE IN PLACE BEFORE A STATEMENT WAS MADE LIKE THAT. HOWEVER, AT LEAST THE COMPANY HAS A GOOD HEART AND IS TRYING TO HELP OUT THE LITTLE ONES. WE SHOULD BE GREATFUL THAT IT IS THERE. THE PEOPLE DUMPING THERE PETS OFF SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. WOULD YOU DUMP A CHILD IN THE SAME WAY. THE DOGS AND CATS ARE LIKE LITTLE FURRY CHILDREN AND NEED OUR SUPPORT. PLEASE SUPPORT THESE SHELTERS AND INFORM PEOPLE OF THE BENEFITS THAT COME ALONG WITH HAVING A PET.
MARY IN CANADA
I HAVE JUST READ SOME DISTURBING NEWS ABOUT THIS SHELTER FROM SCAA. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP THE KIDS, IT APPEARS THEY HAVE NO ANIMAL KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO CARE FOR THEM.. THIS IS TRULY SAD INDEED. PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR PETS TO AVOID THEM GOING TO FUR FARMS OR ON SOMEONES PLATE. SUPPORT SCAA.
THANK YOU.
MARY AND BECKER IN CANADA
our cat just gave birth to 3 little kittens, do you have any idea what we should do with them, because we can't keep them. should we take them to the min hang pet association? or is there some place where we can post a notice for adoption?
Why not post a notice around every city supermarket, every gym, every everywhere peijin, and maybe you'll get lucky. Maybe post an ad on this site?