The Brown Co HS operates the county animal shelter in Ohio. The group apparently calls itself a “no kill” facility although right now they are threatening to kill animals:
In 48 hours, the Brown County Humane Society’s Animal Shelter will have to start euthanizing dogs because it is at capacity. The “no-kill” facility said that they have no other choice.
They have 31 of 32 kennels full and are required to have five kennels open at all times.
No other choice. To me, that implies they have done everything in their power to save these animals and there is nothing more they can possibly do. So who are these 31 kennels full of dogs in need of saving from their “humane” protectors – where can rescuers and adopters see them online? Not on the county’s website. Not on Adoptapet. Petfinder has 23 dogs listed as available for adoption at the Brown Co HS although one clearly states it is a courtesy post for a dog not at the shelter. I found a page on Facebook for the group but nothing has been posted in a week and it was unclear to me from the older postings if they had any dogs for adoption.
No other choice? I have some options for you Brown Co HS! Number one would be to list all the animals who need to be saved from your kill room online. This allows people to network and fall in love with them. The second option is to stick to the truth:
[Humane Society President, Leslie Zureick] said that the shelter cannot keep up with their no-kill policy. Furthermore, since they are considered a no-kill shelter, rescues are less likely to pitch in and help their type of shelter, before those that are considered “kill shelters.”
Well good news – Brown Co is clearly not a no kill shelter since no kill shelters don’t threaten to kill animals. Now there should be a groundswell of support from rescues. Of course, I don’t know how these rescues will see the all dogs in need unless they can physically send someone to the pound today – since the place will be closed tomorrow. But say, there’s a third option for you: Open your doors on Sunday when rescuers and adopters might be able to come in and save the dogs you are threatening to kill on Monday.
Choices are available to you Brown Co, both for this short term crisis and for long term success. Will you make use of them?
Is there anybody in that area that can contact them? Or how could they even be reached on a weekend? Funny (not) how they choose to make a decision like this on days they are closed. Sounds like it’s a planned decision that has nothing to do with a desire to be ‘humane’.
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Oh, well this explains it. Apparently there ARE photos…somewhere. From https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brown-County-Animal-Shelter/161341037230707: As said before in MANY posts… this is NOT a no kill shelter… why the news says this is beyond me.
I do know that very rarely, do they actually have to euthanize dogs though because BCAS has such a dedicated volunteer base to work constantly on getting these dogs adopted out.
If there’s only one dog per kennel, the COUNTY must mandate it go be so, as the county also mandates the euthanizing when the shelter is at this level.
Instead of being angry about things you don’t seem to have a full grasp on, how about sharing the dog photos everywhere and to everyone you know, to help save the dogs :)
That was my point Debbie. I looked for the dogs in need and couldn’t find them. I tried Google and Facebook, although I didn’t see the FB page you found and don’t know if they have animals listed there or not. There are some people who are not on FB and would simply put “Brown County animal shelter” into a search engine and go from there. Shelters need to make their listings EASY for people to find. And they need to open their doors on weekends when people are likely to be able to come in to save animals.
They do have 23 animals listed there and are talking about the news article. I haven’t looked further into their page to see if they list any other website, etc.
23 is the same number as what’s on Petfinder (with only 22 at the shelter). Still coming up short.
Yep…I was just looking through those.
I just posted on their facebook page with some of your suggestions, Shirley, along with a link to No-kill Advocacy Center. :)
I’m getting passive-aggressive whiplash.
They list 3 on their fb page that are new arrivals under stray hold, so that brings it to 26. :-|
3 that are urgent on the euthamasia list…so that’s 29. But who is going to search that far?
Can you share the direct links to the dogs that are on the kill list? I can’t find them and I’m sure others may be having a hard time too.
No…wait…some crossover. Sigh. The numbers still don’t match. False excitement.
Here’s the urgent ones. They also appear (I think) in the adoptable folder, but they don’t say urgent. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.332207756810700.83951.161341037230707&type=3
Another Austin, TX, another facility taking funds for animals they are refusing to help get to a safe place and certain not trying to do so… Keep 5 kennels open, yeah, if doing their job right, none would be filled but animals being adopted out and transferred to other no-kill facilities to have better chances for adoption… LIKE NOW!!!
So where are the rescues to come get the animals? Are they afraid to tread on a sinking ship to save an animal as they are supposed to do? Shame on any rescue allowing any form of shelter to dictate who lives and who dies or who can be rescued and who cannot!!!!
I completely agree with this post, there are many things they can be doing: 1. Being open on weekends, 2. Trying fosters/rescues, 3. Putting the animals on Petfinder/FB/their website, 4. Maybe having a “sale” to get more adoptions by having the animals be cheaper (I hate using terms like that for living things but ya know what I mean), among many other things. They just arent trying.
Just checked back to their facebook page and someone posted this in response to what I had posted. It’s a very nice response, but maybe somebody else would like to offer them some suggestions.
Jenn Kelsen: Hi Debbie, I’m not sure if you have been following Brown County for very long or if maybe some of your advice is for other people following the shelter, but please be assured that the staff and volunteers of Brown County do everything they can to save the dogs. Unfortunately, the problem isn’t that adopters can’t make it in during the hours they are open, it’s that adopters aren’t coming in at all. The problem isn’t that they haven’t contacted rescues, it’s that with the amount of dogs they are getting in recently, all of the rescues that they network with so constantly are full. They haven’t had to euthanize for space in over a year for just these reasons, but the Urgent lists are now coming much more frequently because of all of the dogs that are being dumped. If you know of any rescues that could take some of the dogs, please have them contact the shelter. The shelter is VERY rescue-friendly and would love to hear from them!
If adopters don’t come to the shelter, then the shelter should go to the adopters. Usually PetCo, PetSmart and Tractor Supply are good partners to start a adoption event.
Here’s more input about the situation – I live in the general area (Cincinnati) & have seen what this group is doing, mostly because I know some of the people and keep an eye on the Face Book postings. The Brown County volunteer humane society has done a terrific job getting dogs out alive over the last year, (since they’ve been allowed to do so) despite restrictions and rules imposed upon them by the county-run Brown County Animal Shelter. Local and out-of-area Rescue groups have been very helpful, which is critical because Brown County is a very rural area. From what I’ve seen they’ve done an amazing job saving lives!
At the moment, they are also in the middle of working with a large 65ish dog hoarding case/seizure that has completely overwhelmed everything. The Red Rover group was here for awhile, and dogs have been leaving alive on transports – a large group just this morning.
Obviously there’s room for improvement, but like so many situations; the ones actually doing all the work and saving all the lives don’t have the authority to make the kinds of changes and do everything they’d prefer to do.
I don’t like to see that there are dogs in danger, that they’ve even got a euthanization list – but I think that’s the reality the volunteer group is dealing with from the county. At least there is now the opportunity to rescue and save those dogs that are on the list – which this group has actually been very successfully doing. And maybe, with enough popular and political pressure, they’ll be able to change the way the county operates.
It seems like every time I repeat a pound’s published threat to kill animals, people feel the need to comment about how wonderful and caring and hard working the threat makers are and how they save lots of animals. I have no doubt these claims are true in the eyes of those making them. But all of this misses the point entirely. Shelters should not be killing animals. Shelters should not threaten to kill animals. There are many groups who do some good things for animals. PETA and HSUS and ASPCA are among them. Doing some amount of good in no way gives anyone a pass on whatever harm they bring to animals they are supposed to be protecting.
Brown Co HS runs the pound. They are threatening to kill animals after claiming – and fundraising off said claim – to be a no kill shelter. This is wrong. That’s the bottom line.
Shirley, I’ve not spent much time on their website, but someone in the post that I replied to earlier did say they don’t claim to be no-kill and they don’t know why the television station proclaimed them to be. It still doesn’t excuse a shelter for killing or threatening to kill healthy, adoptable animals. But it would at least mean they are not saying they are one thing (no-kill) by doing another. Just a thought.
It’s a pretty main point in the article, not only included in the title but the reporter appears to have a discussion with the HS president about them being a “no kill” facility. Have they requested the reporter issue a correction?
I don’t know, but the first post right after where someone posted the link to the story says:
Angela Payne: As said before in MANY posts… this is NOT a no kill shelter… why the news says this is beyond me.
I do know that very rarely, do they actually have to euthanize dogs though because BCAS has such a dedicated volunteer base to work constantly on getting these dogs adopted out.
If there’s only one dog per kennel, the COUNTY must mandate it go be so, as the county also mandates the euthanizing when the shelter is at this level.
Instead of being angry about things you don’t seem to have a full grasp on, how about sharing the dog photos everywhere and to everyone you know, to help save the dogs :)
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Shared each and every one on their facebook Albums. Put Ohio crossposters in comment section of Urgent ones so they will have special notice of these beautiful pups.
Hello the brown county pound or the man behind me shoot and killed my.baby jasper on aug 31 he was not even 2 years old and i didnt finx.out he was dead untill the 4 th of sep. They are holding my other female thats 10 years old and saying shes mean they are both raised with 4 kids everyday i am.going to court 2 mor at 830 for her so i can fight for her rights to be returned hometo our
I am so sorry for your loss. Fight with everything you got to get your other dog back. Here’s a link so you can get a petition going…http://www.change.org/start-a-petition.. I hope this helps. Please keep us posted. Alsao .. if you have a police report or news article.. post that too