the-canine-condition

[the-canine-condition]

No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?

If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.

These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.

My family needs urgent help.

Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.

We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.

Please, if you’re reading this: help. Reblog this post. Talk about us. Donate if you can. Even a small act can mean everything right now.

#crisis #humanrights #emergency #donate #pleasehelp #tumblrcommunity #survivestories #reblogtohelp #signalboost

[the-canine-condition]

[the-canine-condition]

Dogs have a fascinating range of personhood. Like they're all on a sliding scale, on one end you've got the kind of dog that's literally just some guy, like that's your uncle's roommate whom you share an awkward silence with when your uncle gets up to go get something and you two don't know each other well enough to make small talk.

And then on the other end of the scale, that's barely even an animal. Not a single thought in there. That's just the world's happiest battering ram.

[the-canine-condition]

Hey remember that a boycott if actually MORE effective under capitalism if you profess you would actually end the boycott under certain conditions.

“Nothing this company does can make up for their bad actions, I will never buy from them again!” Okay so they’ve lost you as a customer and have no reason to try and get you back. You can HOPE to drive them into bankruptcy but Chic-Fil-A is evidence of how well that works.

“This company did something bad. I would not consider buying their product again, UNLESS, they publicly apologized and made up for it by … [donating money to a cause, promoting different content, offering better care to their employees, etc.]” This is actually MORE likely to be effective because if enough people say this, the company m sees them as potential customers of a certain demographic, and is willing to make changes to get those customers back and, long term, make money from them.

[the-canine-condition]

The dog overpopulation problem is not being solved by trap-neuter-rehome for dogs. This type of effort in the Netherlands worked, because they have a wildly different type of dog population in terms of temperaments, genetics, etc. as well as idk, payable jobs? Access to healthcare? But it isn’t working in America. There’s too many dogs. The community is either unable or won’t step up to rehome these dogs, but a lot are mixed breeds with unstable health, genetics and temperaments most common adopters can’t afford or don’t have the skill set to take on. Many wish they could take in animals but they are bound by their paycheck or landlord and can’t.

Shelters who try to make this work just stretch dogs out mentally and physically long term. Fill their kennels up with long-termers the community is not able to keep up with, managed only by experienced handlers and the fact that they are in a kennel 23 hours a day and can do no harm, destroy no furniture, etc. until they are one day, hopefully adopted, maybe returned, or one day euthanized because living in a shelter is no real condition for a dog to stay in. They’ve developed compulsive behaviors, or reactivity or other issues to a level of risk not safe for the community. Shelters were supposed to be temporary housing, a week or two at most to get stray hold, check ups, adoption. It was not meant to board animals.

Then they turn down the plethora of likely adoptable dogs from people who need it most. The dogs who might have a shot at adoption because they HAVE home history, and cute pictures and they’re not absolutely wrecked by the constant overstimulation and FAS. These people surrender because a loved one is chronically ill and they need to be able to give attention on a moments notice, who have lost housing or a job and the animal has done no wrong. And in a moment of panic, some people dump these animals if their nearest no kill is full and they are rejected. They feel they have no choice, lest they go to a “kill shelter”.

There are very few solutions to the dog overpopulation problem. No kill shelters are not one of them. Not anymore.

[the-canine-condition]

Sulala Animal Rescue is the only licensed animal shelter in Gaza and despite the odds, they have managed to continue their work even during this genocide.

This is their official Twitter/X account, which has posted the following links for donations:

[the-canine-condition]

with all due modesty this was a fucking banger of a text message for me to compose after 10 hours in the emergency room and 30 hours without sleep