Anonymous
Source: The Santa Barbara Humane Society
The last three dogs from a closing animal shelter in Coalinga, CA will have a second chance to find their forever homes at the Santa Barbara Humane Society.
The shelter in Coalinga, CA is closing for important renovations this week, and as the operation of the shelter passes from Coalinga’s Animal Control to a nonprofit organization. The dogs, who are all 2 years old, were flown into Santa Barbara Municipal Airport by a volunteer from Pilots N Paws on Friday, June 14, 2019.
This is not the first time that Santa Barbara Humane Society has stepped in to help other shelters in need. Last year, SBHS took fifteen dogs from shelters in the path of Hurricane Michael. Additionally, during the Woolsey Fire, Santa Barbara Humane Society took in thirteen dogs from Ventura County Animal Services.
Kerri Burns, the Executive Director of Santa Barbara Humane Society, says that SBHS is always happy to help other shelters, “We are all in this for the same reason—to help animals, and so we are always happy to help a partner when they are in need.”
About the Santa Barbara Human Society
The Santa Barbara Humane Society is dedicated to the welfare of animals and strives to provide a safe haven for homeless dogs and cats while we actively seek forever homes for them. The Society serves the community with a shelter, animal adoption services, a spay/neuter and vaccination clinic, humane education center, boarding kennels, and professional inspection and emergency response services. Visit sbhumanesociety.org, see our Facebook and Instagram, or call (805) 964-4777, or visit us at 5399 Overpass Road, Santa Barbara.
@ Yacht, ask me if I would rather my taxes go to this rather than the $20M being spent to “refresh” Paseo Nuevo, and you can pretty much guess what my answer would be. “The rest of us taxpayers” pay for an awful lot we would never agree with. So, I’m cool with dogs and people flying them every once in a while.
How irresponsible, probably a good reason they were not previously adopted. Those dogs look like potential killers
Pilots N Paws, yet another 501c3 non-profit that essentially uses taxpayer subsidy to pay for flying as a hobby while doing what many would consider to be noble charity. File with Yachts for Sea Scouts, etc.
Not saying charity isn’t a good thing, but it’s also clever, and as a non-profit that means the rest of us taxpayers are paying for it. OK, sorry.
Flicka, you are right, the “Vicks” dogs became “Victory” dogs, but it took a while and I am not sure that all were able to go to homes of non-shelter families . https://bestfriends.org/stories-about-dogs I visited Best Friends in Kanab Utah during the first years of their treatment and saw the dogs in cages. Unfortunately, the Pitbull breed is very powerful and if not in a good home, can be a problem. We have a close relative who manages a shelter and sees very little rehabilitation of aggressive dogs and less adoptions than other breeds for that reason
Dogist remarks. They are like any other large strong breed or species including humans, raised properly they are fine, raised improperly they can be dangerous. Comments like that raise the fear factor surrounding them, which makes it more likely that miscreants will get them and raise them improperly through intention of ignorance.
first of all, it’s not a species, but a breed. they are just a type of dog, like any other dog. sure, right now they attract bad owners, but the same can be said for dobermans, German shepherds, and Rottweilers in the past. Just as with any dog, they are perfectly healthy and happy given a stable and supportive home environment. and just how do you propose “eradicating” an entire breed? by taking dogs away from their families forcefully and killing dogs that have done nothing to deserve it? Hah. good luck. thats absolutely despicable.
The pits that the celebrity “Vicks” had, bred and raised for fighting, were all going to be put down. A rescue group here in CA took all of them, only one dog had to be eliminated for aggressiveness. The rest became loving pets, some became therapy dogs.
thank you for a dose of sanity!!!
All Breeds and species including humans have some bad, but we don’t irradicate a whole breed or species because of this, most pits just like humans are good loving dogs, and all breeds and species including humans get real nasty when there is a food problem, so Phantom Blot and OOps your fear based sanity is insane. You make a lovely fear based couple 🙂
I guess maybe the police ought to come over here pick me up and throw me in the joint then because I was bought up and have that aggression and propensity crap in me too..Why hide your handle no one knows who the hell you are anyway.
@ OOPS. “Potential killers.” Uh, yeah. Get too close and the three of them will probably lick you to death.