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Melanie Coy

I Guess I'm Just Mean

Posted Sunday, February 13, 2011, at 11:21 AM

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  • Regardless of the frustration. You do your part and more to help those creatures. Remember that. It's worth it !

    -- Posted by jpb2 on Mon, Feb 14, 2011, at 8:41 AM
  • The best thing for all rescues and shelters, is to work together. You can write a good article but writing a story and living reality are two different things.

    I have found out that you are not a licensed rescue or dog trainer. You are in fact not affiliated with any shelter or rescue, you just talk a lot. When I needed help with my out of control pitbull, the Humane Society in Cape Girardeau referred me to you. After talking to me, you said there wasn't anything you could do, the best thing would be to put my dog down.

    I have worked in customer service for many, many years. I know how people complain and who they complain to. They talk to the person that will listen and say they believe what they are saying. Of course people complain about the Humane Society in Cape Girardeau, Safe Harbor, Sikeston Humane Society, SilverWalk, Caruthersville Humane Society, Paws, and all Rescue Groups. People will complain when they do not get what they want or hear what they want to hear. It is only logical to say that the Humane Society in Cape Girardeau probably does get more complaints. The amount of complaints are not because they do more wrong, as you have tried to make it sound, the reason is because they probably get more animals turned into them then all of the other places combined.

    Your article talks about an adaquet shelter, the Humane Society in Cape Girardeau has operated for over 30 years and I understand they will soon be starting to build their new facility. You say they turn animals away and then you say they take them and put them down. It sounds like you are just another person with a complaint. In your eyes, they are bad if they do and bad if they don't

    The best thing for this area is for the existing places to work together, people to accept responsibility for their own animals and have their pets altered. The public needs to realize there is no right and wrong, hopefully some day the animal over-population probelm will not need to be controlled by euthanizing animals.

    I realize a blog is just an opinion and at times not a very educated opinion. The sad thing is, not everyone understands that. So in my opinion you are just a dog owner thats things you know more then the ones have that been in business for over 30 years.

    -- Posted by ducks on Tue, Feb 15, 2011, at 5:35 AM
  • Melanie works tirelessly to make things happen as stated in your 5th paragraph. Sorry she couln't fix your out-of-control pit bull, maybe YOU were the problem. And what dog trainer certification were you referring to? No certification is required in Missouri. Just my opinion of course.

    -- Posted by doggone on Wed, Feb 16, 2011, at 4:35 AM
  • @ducks - we all do work together: I have taken multiple dogs from HSSEMO both at their request and my own walk through; Safe Harbor also has cooperated with them - we must work together or way too many more will die. However, by charter, HSSEMO can only take animals from Cape County - please correct me if I am wrong. That leaves a whole lot of animals and people out there in our neighboring counties needing assistance.

    For me - bottom line: save lives, strive for no kill (less than 10% of intake) and remember, what we do we do for the animals first. Thanks for a lively discussion, even though this isn't my post :).

    -- Posted by silverwalk on Wed, Feb 16, 2011, at 10:43 AM
  • Silverwalk, nope, not the case. The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri takes in animals in need from many areas other than Cape Girardeau County. Ducks, well spoken. I'm sorry about your special needs Pit Bull. But, your comments nicely illustrate none of us are perfect. You can only do the best you can do. There is no magic formula, and all of us will make mistakes.

    -- Posted by lashlarue on Thu, Feb 17, 2011, at 8:57 PM