Just in case you were wondering where exactly this project was heading and what the point of our goal is, here is some more information:
Our argument will be to compare and contrast two animal shelters located in Tucson, Arizona: HOPE and Pima Animal Care Center (PACC). HOPE is a small, nonprofit organization that houses a small amount of cats and dogs. What makes HOPE different from PACC is that it is a no-kill animal shelter. HOPE does not euthanize any of their pets due to old age, lack of space, or any other reason. However, PACC is a much larger, nonprofit organization than HOPE. It houses many more cats and dogs and has a bigger facility than HOPE. If PACC did not euthanize any of their pets its facility would have to be much larger and it would require more money. We wish to argue the fact that it is better to have an area where there is a mixture of both types of animal shelters.
In this blog we will provide information to our followers about the differences between the two types of animal shelters we are researching and they need to work together to help the community of Tucson. For example, PACC euthanized 59% of the dogs and 79% of cats that were brought into the shelter in the last fiscal year (Scheurich). However, more dogs and cats are getting adopted through its efforts to work with rescue groups (Scheurich). We believe that if we can get the two shelters to communicate more efficiently than more dogs and cats will find homes.
Thanks,
Team Animal
Scheurich, Samuel. “Population boom hits local animal shelters.” Tucson Citizen. June 13, 2007.
1. Yes, this sounds like a reasonable project. You have clearly stated your objective and the subject should be of interest to many people.
ReplyDelete2. If the question is one or the other then I would say a shelter like PACC because it can help more animals.
3. As stated somewhat in a previous post, my first objective would be to ensure that all of the adoptable dogs and cats are taken care of first (save the dogs first of course). With limited space and resources it doesn’t make sense to save sick and older animals when young healthy animals are being euthanized.