Article from Bryan, Texas newspaper
It’s not the Brazos Animal Shelter’s fault that the general public can’t take care of their animals! And the rotten areas of Bryan that the city plans to shove thousands into repairing– MLK, 23rd, 24th– these are some of the predominant areas causing the problems to begin with! Excessive breeding, abandoned animals, pit bull abuse, dog fighting, irresponsible pet ownership—Its their pets that end up on the streets or in the shelter! If the city is going to waste their dollars giving these half humans better roads- improvements which will fall immediately into the same egregious disrepair just like the rest of their Sec.8 villages of state protected thieves, rapists, hoodlums, and gangsters.
The city should instead fund mass euthanasia for the inhabitants of that welfare-funded, over-populated, ever-reproducing, worthless hole of tax sucking nobodies who can’t take care of themselves without government’s constant assistance, and do an even lesser job of caring for their unnecessary and accidental procreations. The last thing anyone in that hopeless area of town needs is more tax dollars (to which they neglect to contribute) in order to give them newer “toys” to tear to pieces.
Is the Brazos County ACTUALLY considering ending its contract with the only Hope for proper treatment the innocent animals of the north Bryan bastards could ever have chance of receiving?! This is insane!
For a town spending 6.3 million dollars to improve streets, plus countless thousands more to make a crummy, dying stretch of a hopeless downtown SEEM impressive to the outsider, it really is falling short of “keeping up with appearances” if it’s going to just turn its back on the animals its citizens so foolishly and negligently bring into the world.
You think a few hundred euthanized pets is a lot for a 6 month period? If that’s what you’re holding against the shelter, then think how many more animals will fall prey to a much worse death when the shelter is no longer in the picture to at least give the creatures an easy way out of life.
And I hate the breed restrictions, I hate that the animals can only be giving 72 hours—but reality demands these rules! I’d much rather a pit bull be put to sleep with a needle and poison than from a brutal, debilitating infection caused from open wounds never tended to- or bleeding to death in an empty field after it lost a Friday night’s thrown together dog fight- or starved slowly for years, attached to a human’s chain in a scorching backyard. That’s what pit bulls end up with, as a general rule in Bryan, TX. When they finally do escape the torture of being “owned,” unless they find a kind soul will give them extra special care, they’re better off being put to sleep at the Brazos Animal Shelter.
You cannot blame the shelter for the fact that more pets were not adopted out to good families! How many dollars have you donated to their publicity program? How many hours have you donated to work with the dogs individually so they’ll be ready to go into the public for a meet & greet day? How often do you spread the word about adoption weekends at Petsmart, or even encourage potential dog owners to go visit the animals in need of home? The workers in the shelter can only do so much, and they will never be the equivalent of a good, stable home to all the pets they receive each week. That is NOT the shelter’s fault- it is YOUR fault.
How is the shelter supposed to afford the spay/neuters, new kennels, medications, basic cleaning supplies, paperwork, employee paychecks, gas to and from adoption days, etc, if not through city funding? It’s the city that so desperately wants its streets to be clean and pretty, how does it possibly think that having a few stray packs of wild dogs and a couple hundred colonies of unrestricted feral cats on every block will improve the oh-so-important appearance of its beloved new streets?!
If the Brazos County is in such a gross need to spend money on the north Bryan area, then spend it seizing the abused pets in just about every house on 23rd street—spend it inspecting the quality of life the poor children are subjected to within the homes—spend it on evening youth programs that teach responsibility for oneself, his possessions, and his pets.
Just fixing the streets is a tremendous waste of money unless the generations who will inevitably live on those streets till death have been taught to treat their streets, and anything they keep on those streets, with respect.
First the D.A.R.E. program gets nixed, now the Animal Shelter is in serious danger of survival—but, hey! The streets will be shiny and new! Now we’re talking Brazos County priorities!
You are a very powerful writer, Jamie. You have truly thrown your passion into this piece. I, too, can not understand the reasoning behind this city’s decision. I guess there are some things we may never understand or agree with. I do understand, however, the anger and frustration you feel. How does Harlingen, or Cameron County for that matter, handle the animal control problems down there? Please reply – I’d love to hear from you.