[# 3 posting] Pet shelters in America

I am very interested in animal rights, so I continued to volunteer pet shelters both in Korea and in US.  In Korea, pet culture is not long, so the pet shelters don’t be organized, yet.  However, I think America has long pet culture, so they have already have lots of “know-how” about it.  Actually, after I experienced
both pet shelters, I realized the same opinion that I mention above.  Therefore, I want to say about the key factors that American pet shelters have in order to learn about it.



The first key factor is American pet shelters know the pets well.  This means that they already know about pet’s behaviors, usual medical problems, and etc.  Therefore, they can handle the pets without confusing. This makes them operate the shelter with not only their sympathy but also an appropriate responds to the pets.

The second important factor is that people have a strong trust about the pet shelters.  I think the best way to save pets in shelters is adoption.  In order that people in their neighbors adopt many pets, the shelters give them a trust about the shelter pets.  Personally, I volunteered in the dog-walking part in Austin Pets
Alive.  In there, I can see many dogs are trained well by volunteers, so the dogs in the shelter are perfect for pets, now!  For these reasons, I believe that people don’t hesitate to adopt pets from shelters.

The third important thing of American pet shelters is that they are supported by lots of people.  They can operate the shelter with high rates of donations.  Because of these donations, they can handle their pets well.  Moreover, there are well organized animal hospitals.  This means that many local animal hospitals volunteer the medical service to pet shelter. As you know, medical service is very important to pets in shelter because they are needed to get a health inspection.  Therefore, the pets in shelter can keep healthy.



All in all, I think that the factors that I mentioned above are the fundamental reasons why US pet shelters are developed well.  In the future, I want to learn about the specific system of pet shelter.