Wally

Here's a story about Wally.  Wally was found by the folks at the Winter Assistance Program with Spay/Neuter Kansas City.  Wally is about 1 year old and was found still wearing his puppy collar -- which was far too small for him and was embedded in his neck. 

You can read the rest of Wally's story here with more photos here (NOTE:  Some of the neck photos are REALLY graphic, so don't say I didn't warn you, but I think it's important to realize just how bad of condition this dog was in).

I want to note that this dog was found by volunteers -- not animal control.  Animal control has been far too busy dealing with court cases, rounding up "pit bulls" that weren't really "pit bulls" and trolling Craig's List and chat boards looking for additional "pit bulls" to have noticed.   I'll also note that some of these same volunteers served on a committee a few years ago that put together recommendations for the city's animal control department (including getting rid of their BSL because they were spending too much time on that and not on other things) and were completely ignored by the city.

There are hundreds of people in this city that care about animals and responsible animal control that are more than willing to HELP in any way...it's amazing to me that cities continue to ignore these resources and in fact, appear to work really hard at pissing them off.

SNKC is looking for donations to help them with defraying some of Wally's medical costs....so if your heart leads you that way, I know they'd appreciate it.

Comments

[Michelled]

If you can help foster/adopt a Rottie please contact www.MABBR.org

Shelter has a 3yr old rottie male who is to die for. Kristie (one of our volunteers) met him today and he's a total lover, loves to be hugged, doesn't care waht you do to him, she pulled his feet, squished his toes, looked at his teeth and he just kept rolling over for belly rubs. She took her husband and he was great with him too.

http://www.mabbr.org/pics/rottiemale/

[Social Mange]

To quote you...
"it's amazing to me that cities continue to ignore these resources and in fact, appear to work really hard at pissing them off."

We are SO on the same page here. But instead of utilizing valuable volunteer resources and reducing the taxpayers' burden, overpaid and underworked bureaucrats are busy protecting their fat salaries and perks at the animals' expense.

The management level of animal control in Toronto sends out voluminous, meaningless letters instead of stomping on the workers who sleep in trucks and do nothing, thereby tarnishing the reputation of the people who work hard and do care about the animals.

[harley lynn]

i believe that a good name for nameless would be reef..