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Adoptions of the pets from shelters and rescues actually fell in 2020. And it looks like the number fell again this year.

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UPDATED: Thu., June 17, 2021

Two of the more than 80 dogs found abandoned in Kellogg are photographed at Kootenai County Humane Society on Wednesday in Hayden. (Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review)

On a normal day, Kootenai Humane Society houses maybe 20 dogs and several cats.

On Wednesday, it had more than 80 dogs packed into its facility after local authorities stumbled across animal hoarding at an abandoned house in Kellogg on Monday afternoon.

Debby Jeffries, the humane society's executive director, said she had never seen such a hoarding case. On Monday, she got a call from pet rescuers at Shoshone Pet Rescue telling her they found at least 30 dogs in one house.

"Then they started finding more, and she said, 'Oh, by the way, there are 64 dogs.' I said, 'There are how many?' " Jeffries said. "I think my jaw dropped on the desk."

It turned out there were more than that. Some had hidden in the floorboards and walls.

The final total: 85 dogs and nine cats.

Pet rescuers and local police found several puppies between five and eight weeks old. They found five pregnant dogs, one of which gave birth to a trio of pups at KHS soon after her arrival.

KHS got most of the dogs, including the pregnant adults and four of the cats. Kellogg Veterinary Clinic took in eight adult dogs and five puppies, and some went to foster parents.

One dog was euthanized at the clinic and one of the original 85 had been found dead on the property, ending in 83 dogs total.

"As far as I'm concerned, these dogs were in the best shape for the conditions they were in," Jeffries said.

The dogs were also small and loud, leaving Jeffries baffled as to how no one heard them.

Kellogg Police Sgt. Paul Twidt said the case also stumped him. Last Tuesday, Twidt went to the house on a civil standby call, as requested by the landlord to solve a dispute with his renter.

Though he never went inside, Twidt said he could not understand how he heard no animal noises.

"I talked to basically all of the neighbors, and they all said, 'Not only did we not know there were 80 dogs, we didn't know there was one dog,' " Twidt said.

As he builds an animal cruelty case against the dog owner, Twidt said he believes there was probably a large basement where the owner kept the dogs.

Though the dogs seemed nourished, Twidt said the fact the owner abandoned the animals is enough for them to pursue several counts of animal cruelty.

The society was happy to take them, said Vicky Nelson, KHS development director, but it did strain resources.

KHS is funded by community donations, and Nelson said the number of dogs has put pressure on their staff and medical equipment.

"To see these little faces, yes, it's difficult. It's strenuous and not something I would want to do every day, but it is so worth it," Nelson said.

Nelson said the lack of space in their current facility means they've had to stack boxes of dog food outdoors as they attempt to bathe, feed, process and vaccinate the new arrivals.

The humane society has another task ahead of them - as of Wednesday, more than 250 adoption applications were submitted. Normally, about three applications come in for one dog, allowing the staff to evaluate each one on a case-by-case basis. This time , Jeffries said, that won't be possible.

KHS is still working on the dogs, but Jeffries said they will soon open the adoption process in a general meet-and-greet at the facility.

"We had to close the application. Otherwise, there would have been a lot of disappointed people," Jeffries said. "What I will tell people: You've got to remember you need a lot of patience with these dogs because in the last year, they've been in a house. They weren't on grass. They didn't go outside. When they had to go, they went wherever in the house. And if you're not ready for that, then this is not the dog for you."

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News UPDATED: Thu., June 17, 2021 On a normal day, Kootenai Humane Society houses maybe 20 dogs and several cats. On Wednesday, it had more than 80 dogs packed into its facility after local authorities stumbled across animal hoarding at an abandoned house in Kellogg on Monday afternoon.

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Sun., Jan. 5, 2020

Shelter dog George has been at SCRAPS for 195 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

After a first glance at Rosco - a big, gray, muscular dog with a huge face, a wide-open mouth and a seemingly fierce demeanor - the reasons he has been at SCRAPS for 190 days, waiting to be adopted, might seem apparent.

But when he sat in an animal control officer's lap on a recent afternoon, before resorting to rolling all over the visitation room floor, it was hard to believe Rosco doesn't have a home.

The average stay for a dog at SCRAPS, or Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service, is 10 days. For cats, it's 21 days. But some animals - often those that belong to so-called "bully breeds," such as pit bulls and German shepherds - have trouble finding a home.

Under previous SCRAPS policies, dogs like Rosco, with a long stay at the shelter and difficulty adjusting to kennel life, would have been euthanized. Over the past year and a half, new shelterdirector Lindsey Soffes has invested in training and medical care to make all their animals more adoptable, no matter how long it takes.

The shelter now only euthanizes animals when medically necessary because their quality of life has deteriorated or because they are a hazard to public safety.

Rosco is one of several dogs that has benefited from the new policy but has spent a significant portion of 2019 at the shelter. Staff and volunteers have hope that once people get to know Rosco and his shelter mates, they'll finally find homes in 2020.

Here are the five dogs that have been at SCRAPS the longest:

Suko

Suko, a medium golden and red dog of unknown breed, has been at SCRAPS longer than any other animal. Some 280 days ago, he was found roaming in Medical Lake scared and alone.

While Suko is playful, sweet and friendly to humans, he does not enjoy the company of his own kind. Suko is best suited for a one-dog home, and his new owner should avoid dog parks and other places where he would be in close proximity to other animals.

Soffes said Suko's difficulties with other dogs is a common one and that, after more than nine months at the shelter, he just needs a home where he can be the only canine.

"He's an awesome dog," she said.

Shelter dog Suko has been at SCRAPS for 280 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

Courage

Weighing in at about 40 pounds, Courage is all energy and curiosity. He searched the entire room and made friends quickly when a visitor recently dropped by.

About 4 or 5 years old, Courage was a stray dog found in Spokane about 255 days ago. While he is friendly and playful, he also needs a one-dog family.

"He's one of those dogs that we are really surprised is still here," Soffes said. "Every now and then, we get these super amazing kiddos who we think would be amazing companions for most families."

Soffes said the shelter is cautious about placing Courage with a family that has another animal. Potential adopters must set up several visits to see how the dog interacts with other animals from that home.

Soffes said having multiple visits with an animal is common before a person decides to adopt. She also encouraged people to bring their current pets to the shelter to meet a new dog before adopting it.

Shelter dog Courage has been at SCRAPS for 255 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

Ruby

Only about knee-high, Ruby is the smallest of the long-timers at SCRAPS. She is also one of the most energetic and adventurous. Though a favorite at the shelter's pup field trip program, Ruby has been at the shelter for 250 days. She was brought in by a dogsitter who said the owner did not want its dog back.

Soffes said Ruby enjoys car rides, playing with toys and hiking. She does not, however, enjoy the company of other dogs. Like Courage and Suko, Ruby needs to be adopted into a one-dog household. Soffes said she also needs to live in a home free of cats because she is a little too interested in them.

Shelter dog Ruby has been at SCRAPS for 250 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

'Curious' George

George is a friendly German sheperd who lives up to his nickname. He has been trained to shake paws and takes every opportunity to do so. He has become a shelter favorite during his 195-day stay.

While George does not have the same issues with other dogs as Suko and Ruby, he does need a family with the compassion and understanding to care for a traumatized animal. George was found tied to a tree in the Dishman Hills Natural Area.

Like many of his breed, he also struggles with the noise and chaos of a shelter environment, and may not act friendly or seem approachable while in his cage. Once he is in an open space and away from the clamor of the kennel, though, he's a curious and engaged dog.

"He's just one where we think he needs a little bit of the extra TLC because he has definitely suffered emotional trauma," Soffes said. "Being abandoned and finding yourself in the shelter, it's a scary place."

Shelter dog George has been at SCRAPS for 195 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

Rosco

Rosco, one of the biggest of the long-time dogs at the shelter, is friendly and affectionate. He has been at the shelter for 190 days. He was surrendered by his owners after he bit one of them in response to an attempt to force him into a dog crate. Since then, he has had behavior training and has not had further problems with reacting to people.

Rosco does not have the same difficulty with other animals as some of the other long-time shelter dogs, but he does not do well in a stressful kennel environment and often gets passed over for other dogs that have a better kennel presence.

"He will often like jump at the bars ... bark and kind of run toward people approaching, but he is a completely different, playful, happy, relaxed dog when he's out of his kennel," Soffes said.

Shelter dog Rosco has been at SCRAPS for 190 days. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

Barriers to adoption

Soffes said kennel presence, ability to socialize with other animals, size and breed are all barriers for adoption.

She said landlords sometimes have size or breed restrictions on animals allowed in their apartments or may not allow dogs at all. In particular, she said, there are often stereotypes about pit bulls and German shepherds that can make them difficult to adopt out.

She recommended people considering adopting a new pet from a shelter make several meetings, even if they don't already have an animal, before they make a decision

There are 105 dogs at the shelter and 60 dogs in foster homes. There are 200 cats in the shelter and 625 in foster homes.

Soffes said about twice as many cats are taken to the shelter as dogs, but they are adopted much faster or can go to a foster home if it takes longer. Dogs are much more difficult to foster and far more rental units don't allow them.

SpokAnimal, a local nonprofit shelter, does not have any long-term dogs, but the Spokane Humane Society has recently had several animals that stayed at the shelter for more than a year.

Spokane Humane Society executive director Sheila Geraghty said medical issues can be an issue that makes dogs difficult to adopt out, but it's far more common for cats to have medical problems than dogs. Even then, however, cats are easier to adopt out than dogs.

Geraghty said the most common barrier for adoption, however, is still an animal's behavior and, especially, its behavior when a potential family sees it for the first time in the kennel.

First look often isn't an accurate reflection of who a dog really is.

"I would say 90% of the time, once the volunteer gets in there, gets the leash around their neck and gets them out of the shelter into the open walking on their property into the play yard, it's a totally different dog and that's the dog that the public needs to see," she said.

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Under previous SCRAPS policies, dogs with a long stay at the shelter and difficulty adjusting to kennel life would have been euthanized. But over the past year and a half, new shelter Director Lindsey Soffes has invested in training and medical care to make all their animals more adoptable, no matter how long it takes.

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LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A 13-year-old animal rights advocate in Long Beach will soon be a hero in the Disney+ series "Marvel Hero Project" thanks to her activism.

Genesis Butler has been a real-life hero to many four-legged creatures in her local community for a while.

The 13-year-old girl is an animal rights advocate who continues to make strides in addressing the protection of animals.

"Animals are like the same as us. They have feelings. They have emotions and they feel sadness," Butler said.

Soon, her advocacy work will be featured on a Disney+ original series where Genesis turns Marvel hero.

"I didn't think I'd be on Marvel ever, but I think this is really cool that I'm able to be a part of this," Butler said.

She spends a lot of her free time volunteering, speaking at public events and fundraising for her nonprofit Genesis for Animals to donate to animal sanctuaries.

Her journey began back when Butler was just three years old. That's when the toddler discovered, in order to have chicken nuggets, chickens have to die. Butler and her family went vegetarian.

A year later, while mom nursed her little sister, Butler asked about the milk the rest of her family drank.

"She told me how we had to get it from mom cows. I didn't want to drink it ever again so my whole family ended up going vegan," Butler said.

Butler took her message all the way to the Vatican last year where she tried to ask the Pope to go vegan for Lent.

"We got a lot of other people to go vegan for lent and it brings a lot of awareness about veganism," Butler said.

Butler's work then caught the attention of folks with Marvel's Hero Project.

The show features young, real-life heroes who make a difference in their communities.

Genesis and her family got a big surprise: a jacket complete with a Marvel patch and a comic featuring Butler inspired by the young activist's work.

"My dad was actually put in it and my dog," Butler said.

The teen also got her very own episode on Marvel's Hero Project, which is scheduled to air on Disney+ on Feb. 21.

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An animal shelter, by definition, is: an establishment, especially one supported by charitable contributions, that provides a temporary home for dogs, cats, and other animals that are offered for adoption. An establishment that temporarily provides a home until the animal is adoptable. Sounds good, right?
However, this definition is more in line with no kill animal shelters. These shelters will either keep animals as long as possible, or give them to some other organization that can attempt to adopt out the animals. They will do all in their power to find a great new home for animals that may have been homeless, abused, or a victim of hoarding. Through these types of organizations and charities, animals are given a second chance at life, love, and happiness.
Not only do the animals benefit, but those who adopt them do as well. They can receive some of the best animals and friends from places such as these, (as I know from experience.) While animals may come from any condition, if they are healthy, and great with people, even if it so happens to be as a result of many months or years of training, they will get another chance to be happy and to know love like they should.
Programs like these are great and can really help people in many conditions. There are many success stories out there that will make one want to go adopt every single animal from a shelter that they can, or at the very least, help them.
On the contrary, when comparing no kill shelters to ones without the same beliefs, the results often are not so 'successful.' These shelters may take in animals from the streets, and give them what they need, if only for a little amount of time depending upon their policies.
To clarify, there are some shelters that will let an animal stay for two weeks before euthanizing it. Others give only 3 days. According to research, some shelters may give an animal 3 days, then an additional 7, should the owner come looking for the animal. Meanwhile, other shelters may give the animals a few months, a few weeks, a few days, or even just an hour.
These particular shelters may have excuses, such as "we don't have enough room, we don't have enough money to keep them alive, or they aren't young or 'cute' enough and nobody will want to adopt them." While it may be true that there is no room for the animal or not enough money, the shelters could give the animals to a no kill shelter or an adoption organization.
I personally believe that all animals, no matter what age, as long as they are healthy and gentle, are "adoptable." The excuse that the animal is not young or cute enough has no support, seeing as many ages and kinds of animals are adopted all the time.
Animal shelters that do not have no kill policies don't give the animals enough time. It may take more than 3 days, 7 days, or even a couple of weeks for someone to come to the shelter. But the people coming to adopt are not to blame, because the shelter could put out fliers or notices that there are adoptable pets waiting to find their 'furever homes.'
Though some shelters may do this, and may even genuinely care about the animals, there are always those who just look at the animals as profit. Maybe they think keeping the animals alive is too much money or that there's less hassle with less animals, but clearly, the animals' best interest is not in mind, as it is at a no kill shelter.
Sure, maybe this is the first time in the animal's life that they've had shelter or food and water, but is it beneficial if the animal will not even get a fair chance at life? The animals don't know what's going on, and they may be scared from the past, traumatized, or extremely shy, but they haven't done anything at all to deserve to die.
So while not all shelters can 'afford' to keep the animals, they could find people who will foster the animals until adoption, or some other, positive alternative. Why, if an animal is not a harm to others, should it be killed without any choice? The animals can't speak for themselves. Their fates depend on us to be their voice. Are you up for the challenge? I know I am.

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Dori Edwards, Global Animal

Similarly to how many grass roots organizations begin, Kids Against Animal Cruelty started with a small group of animal lovers carrying signs on street corners and a Facebook page with 47 friends.

"We are Animal Knights fighting for the rights of all animals," describes KAAC on their Facebook page. An animal activism group that uses social networking to encourage adoption at high kill shelters, KAAC was founded two years ago by child actor/singer Lou Wegner when he was a mere 14 years old.

Wegner established KAAC after volunteering at a local animal shelter in Los Angeles during the filming of his short film Be Good To Eddie Lee.

"It was heartbreaking. All these dogs crying in their cages. Knowing they would be put down broke my heart," Wegner recalled of the facilities.

Wegner relayed it was the first time he became aware of the disconcerting euthanasia rates throughout the country- believing before that shelters were safe places for homeless animals.

After two years, KAAC boasts 12,000 members, 50,000 supporters, and 20,000 animals it has saved from euthanasia.The organization has branched across the United States and has several chapters, all run by young animal lovers like Wegner.

In New York City, two sisters are head of a faction that helped find lost dogs and provide food for families with animals during Superstorm Sandy. Two of Wegner's young relatives run chapters in Arizona and Minnesota.

Wegner hopes that KAAC will eventually have a chapter in every state, "because the bigger the group you work with, the bigger difference you can make. "

Robin Harmon, a transporter for Best Friends' Animal Society, was "especially impressed that at a young age, he could control his feelings and the sadness that we all feel when we are helping at high-kill shelters."

According to AP, Wegner agrees that the sadness is hard to deal with. "Saving one keeps you going," he says.

Wegner's volunteering does not end with KAAC. Clearly a dedicated animal lover, he began another group in South Carolina called For the Love of Dogs in order to save a black labrador retriever named Tommy Joe that he believed "was doomed."

He is also co-host of the Global Voice Broadcasting radio show Love That Dog Hollywood! Kids & Animals. A ccording to the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services and a guest on the show Brenda Barnette, Wegner is "a well-spoken advocate for animals and for peer involvement."

Wegner also believes in a need to educate children on cruelty to animals. After the recent cases of child-inflicted animal cruelty when a 12-year-old hung his family dog and two 11-year-olds threw rocks at a pregnant cat, Wegner stated that these children should be exposed to a euthanasia room.

Wearing his KAAC t-shirt everywhere he goes, Wegner and his compatriots for animal rights are far from finished with their work. "They euthanize just as many animals every day as we have saved. It's like throwing a Band-Aid in a river," he says.

We expect to see a lot more from Wagner and his team of dedicated friends. We are grateful that the young generation has taken on this cause and is reshaping the future for animals.

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Dori Edwards, Global Animal Similarly to how many grass roots organizations begin, Kids Against Animal Cruelty started with a small group of animal lovers carrying signs on street corners and a Facebook page with 47 friends. "We are Animal Knights fighting for the rights of all animals," describes KAAC on their Facebook page.

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A 13-year-old from New Jersey has embarked on the cutest mission ever. He sews tiny bow ties for cats and dogs to help them get adopted.

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Our relationships with the animals we keep are highly personal. They provide us with unconditional love, and we take on a personal responsibility for making sure that they are well cared for. But when the bond between an animal and his guardian is broken, as when an animal is lost, abandoned, or surrendered to a shelter, who then has responsibility for the animal and his care?

Most people would say it's the local animal shelter's responsibility. And that's true. We take on the function of caring for animals other people don't want or can't care for. And we acknowledge our special role in speaking for the voiceless and upholding the moral status of animals in our communities. But if you were to ask the people at the shelter whose responsibility it is to care for lost, mistreated, and abandoned animals, they'd insist that it's the community's as a whole.

That's because we can't do this work by ourselves. Animal shelters rely on the community for funding, homes, volunteer help, and most importantly, we need people to care for their animals properly and not contribute to the problem. That's why we insist that animal welfare is a community responsibility and that success in this field comes through partnerships with people outside of the shelter.

In fact, just a few weekends ago we had an amazing adoption event -- a real example of community partnership. We got 65 animals into new homes in just two days. We kept our adoption trucks moving back and forth from the shelter to their temporary station in front of Friendship Hospital for Animals all weekend.

This private veterinary hospital, the largest in the nation's capital, understands the need for community involvement in animal welfare. Thanks to them, we have a thriving humane education program, ready veterinary interns and staff to help for events and patient care, and now... 65 new homes for our animals. It's exactly the kind of partnership we're always looking for.

With the help of that hospital, we made a lot of new friends and found many new homes. The astonishing thing to me though, was not the number of adoptions. We'd like to do that every weekend. It's the fact that by simply bringing animals to where our adopters live, and not keeping them in our shelter, which, let's face it, is not exactly on the beaten track of metro D.C.'s population (most shelters are tucked away near landfills, railroad tracks, airports, and other well-healed neighborhoods!), we literally tripled our adoptions for the weekend. One obvious conclusion -- we've got to get out more!

And that's exactly what we bought our new adoption truck to do -- bring our animals literally into the waiting arms of adopters. Easy enough to say, but not so simple to do. Especially in a city like Washington, in which parking a 22-foot truck has its challenges. So we need partners: businesses like Friendship Hospital for Animals that can host adoption events and provide us with venues to meet the public and tell them about our work.

At the same time, it's incumbent upon us in the animal welfare business to make our shelters welcoming places that the public doesn't have to be afraid to visit. So many times I hear from donors or other supporters that they love what we do, but don't want to visit because it's so sad to see all those animals without homes or hope.

But that's exactly what you won't see at the Washington Animal Rescue League or in any of the new "breed" of animal shelters being built all over the country. What you'll see at the League are contented dogs and cats acting like dogs and cats. That means you'll see them playing, eating, sleeping, and wagging their tails or stretching their paws in greeting. You'll also see funny bowls and buckets holding treats and messages from our behavior staff asking you to toss a few treats to help train our dogs to be household pets.

Every shelter needs to become a place of hope, education, and engagement -- not despair. They should be places where you can bring kids to adopt a pet, learn about the animals, or just practice compassion for all living things. But above all, places where you can teach responsible animal care, which includes spaying and neutering and adopting from shelters, not from Craig's List. Places where they are taught kindness and that it's important to be part of the world's solutions. Which includes ending animal homelessness. Put us out of business -- please.

November 6-12 is National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. (But you knew that already, didn't you?) It's a great time to get to know your local animal shelter and show them that you're ready to become part of the solution. Every shelter needs adopters, donors, and volunteers. But here are few other ways you might get involved:

1. Help publicize the animals who are looking for homes. Hang a picture and description of an adoptable animal at your workplace or school. You can pull them straight from the shelter's website.

2. Consider donating used towels, blankets, toys, and treats to the shelter. Shelters go through a lot of these. You might even use your neighborhood list serve to organize a drive.

3. Host an adoption event at your work, school, or community group. Even if the event doesn't manage to find too many homes for animals -- and some are more successful in this regard than others -- you will introduce lots of people to the shelter and the work it does.

4. Learn about the services that your local shelter offers -- spay/neuter programs, low-cost vaccination clinics, dog training classes, help for feral cats, and the like -- so that you're ready to talk to friends and neighbors about how they can find help caring for their pets properly.

5. Offer to organize a tour of the shelter for a group of young people. Almost every shelter will happily talk to children about what they do and introduce them to their animals.

It's all about community. What Friendship Hospital showed us this weekend was that community partnerships work. Animal shelters need community support. And this starts by taking good care of all of our own animals. But if it's easier for the mountain to come to Mohammed, we'll do that too, like we did last weekend.

Because when the problem of animal homelessness becomes all of our problems, by spaying and neutering, giving proper veterinary care and teaching compassion for all living things, the animals will finally win. Sixty five dogs and cats who got to sleep in their new beds last week can attest to that.

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