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Abandoned POUND dogs are being killed unnecessarily.

category wicklow | animal rights | opinion/analysis author Friday November 09, 2012 09:54author by Bernie Wright - Alliance for Animal Rightsauthor email bigbrownrat at gmail dot comauthor address AFAR po Box 4734. dublin 1author phone 0872651720 Report this post to the editors

Wicklow Co Co /ISPCA need to do their upmost for pound dogs.

WICKLOW County Council / ISPCA REFUSE RESCUE GROUPS ACCESS to SAVE ‘POUND DOGS’ LIVES

- DEMAND THAT WICKLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS ALLOW THESE DOGS TO BE SAVED/rehomed BY REPUTABLE RESCUES

The ISPCA run the WICKLOW pound on behalf of Wicklow county council. There are 2 dog wardens employed who have been doing the job for years and obviously by their stance they obviously think killing is perfectly acceptable.
They are obstructing all efforts to allow rescues in to help the dogs and have the backing of the council, the ISPCA do not intervene.
According to sources there has been no effective governance of the pound by the council at all - they just sign a cheque for them every year and don't want to know.
The council don’t appear to care or have a clue about the pound and insist all the dogs they kill are unsuitable for rehoming (44% in 2010 and 28% last year)
Dogs Trust can take some dogs as does Wicklow spca but there are lots of other dogs that need help.

Compassion towards the dogs is lacking in Wicklow Co Co and ISPCA.
Compassion towards the dogs is lacking in Wicklow Co Co and ISPCA.


The ISPCA run the WICKLOW pound on behalf of Wicklow county council. There are 2 dog wardens employed who have been doing the job for years and obviously by their stance they obviously think killing is perfectly acceptable.
They are obstructing all efforts to allow rescues in to help the dogs and have the backing of the council, the ISPCA do not intervene.
According to sources there has been no effective governance of the pound by the council at all - they just sign a cheque for them every year and don't want to know.
The council don’t appear to care or have a clue about the pound and insist all the dogs they kill are unsuitable for rehoming (44% in 2010 and 28% last year)
Dogs Trust can take some dogs as does Wicklow spca but there are lots of other dogs that need help.

BACKGROUND

A group called Chance Wicklow held a protest about the continual refusal of Wicklow County Council / ISPCA to allow Chance Wicklow volunteers access to the dogs at Wicklow Pound.
Chance apparently want to meet the dogs, photograph them and put their photo and profile up on social media with the aim of reuniting lost dogs and rehoming those dogs that are not reclaimed.
This system works well in other pounds and the co operation between pounds and rescues results in a very low percentage of dogs being killed.

Last year 79 dogs were killed in Wicklow Pound - in 2010 44% of dogs were killed.
We all want to make figures like this a thing of the past.
Chance have met with the council on two occasions requesting rescue access but the answer is still NO.

High kill rates are not acceptable when there is a tried, tested and humane alternative.
There is no excuse for the high kill rate in Wicklow Pound.
South County Dublin Council takes in 5 times as many dogs as Wicklow yet only has a 6% destruction rate.
South County Dublin work very successfully with a Dog's Life who photograph all dogs arriving at their pound.
Chance Wicklow want to copy the success that A Dog's Life have made.

Wicklow taxpayers pay almost €200,000 annually for a dog pound "service"
The ISPCA run the pound on behalf of Wicklow County Council.
We would like to see greater accountability and scrutiny of how Wicklow Pound is run.
Wicklow should be getting a first class service for that amount of money.
Chance would like to see all dogs rehomed responsibly from the pound.

We need EMAILS NOW to the Wicklow council Members asking for a compassionate decision here. ALLOW THE DOGS TO BE REHOMED/ STOP KILLING ABANDONED DOGS.

*In the Council office Helen Dennehy is the Senior executive Officer in charge of this situation. Phone 0404 20236 , her email is in the block below*. The Vets e mail is rdaunt@wicklowcoco.ie
ALL ARE IN THE BLOCK BELOW.
PLEASE EMAIL THE FOLLOWING by putting in the Bcc column [block email]
PDempsey@arklowtc.ie, cllrunakelly@gmail.com, PFitzger@arklowtc.ie, NKelly@wicklowcoco.ie, VMcElher@arklowtc.ie, mglynn@wicklowcoco.ie, tracyobrien@live.ie, emailme@david-grant.eu, ronanmcmanus@votelabour.ie, efinnegan@braytc.ie, kazu@eircom.net, PVance@wicklowcoco.ie, murrayrossa@gmail.com, JByrne@wicklowcoco.ie, swray@braytc.ie, jryan@wicklowcoco.ie, johnbradysf@gmail.com ,KKelleher@wicklowcoco.ie, stephenjstokes@yahoo.com, cllrhayden@gmail.com, james@jamesosullivan.ie, GJJones@wicklowcoco.ie, rdaunt@wicklowcoco.ie, mitchelld@eircom.net,mcloughlingrainne@gmail.com, TFortune@wicklowcoco.ie, mervymorrison@gmail.com, malearls@gmail.com, magsandsean@hotmail.com, 1patkavanagh@gmail.com, IreneWinters@eircom.net, CKavanagh@wicklowcoco.ie,gaildunne@eircom.net, garretoreilly@hotmail.com, hdennehy@wicklowcoco.ie ,

Thanks for trying to help the WICKLOW DOGS

Related Link: http://www.afarireland.org

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   It's very simple     Alison Murphy    Fri Nov 09, 2012 19:14 
   wicklow dog pound     maura rua    Fri Nov 09, 2012 20:34 
   Case in point     Cissy pat    Sat Feb 02, 2013 23:34 
   Reply to maura     Cussypat    Sat Feb 02, 2013 23:45 
   re:abandoned pets     Anon    Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:58 
   lost and found on facebook     Paul Grimes    Sun Feb 03, 2013 14:32 
   abandonment     eagle    Sun Feb 03, 2013 16:00 
   re:abandoment     anon    Sun Feb 03, 2013 16:15 
   clarification     eagle    Sun Feb 03, 2013 16:49 
 10   re:clarification     anon    Sun Feb 03, 2013 16:53 


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