The latest fad in animal control operations is selling the public on the idea of "managed intake", meaning the shelter only takes in a certain amount of animals, and tells the public if they find strays to either hold them or release them back onto the streets. The rationale has even gone so far to say that most animals find their way back home if you let them loose.
Do you really believe that?
Is managed intake is a moral solution? Is it an excuse not to modernize and improve operations?
Is it a sick joke, especially for lost dogs and desperate owners? What if stray dog populations are exploding across the country? Even when state laws mandate the intake of strays by animal control, is it moral to find ways of working around those laws with administrative rules?
Are there not other solutions? Aren't there professionals who have the management skills to turn this around? Is it easier to cover up problems and avoid the pain of reforms while at the same time collecting paychecks that somehow confirm incompetency and the ability to cover up what is really wrong? We should also be asking if this another reason why they can't keep volunteers, often those who complain when they see these atrocities. Is it easier to just shut them up? Is it easier to build bigger shelters that are really just great big warehouses to process euthanasias?
Just my humble opinion... managed intake is an ineffective and inhumane answer.
Plan accordingly.
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