From LCHS 's own website - lies or a wish list?

Okay, this was copied from their website - Many of us here know this list is a bunch of lies.
NoKill Advocate, or anyone else, feel free to comment as you see fit.. -
espec. the ones where they claim to work with rescues and fosters.
I especially find interesting their wording when they say 'supports a very active spay/neuter program..'
Wow is that a mouthful! So we are to assume they 'support' this program but just choose to actively not engage in the program?
And the first line - "a sanctuary" I always thought sanctuary was a place of safety, not death.
Another goodie....indicating they make diligent efforts to find owners of lost dogs. I've talked with volunteers myself that have stated the Fritch's instructed workers not to tell owners coming in to find their lost dogs that their dogs were killed at the shelter. Most times without even an effort on the part of employees to notify owners their dogs were there. Some diligent effort.
Also, I have yet to hear of their animal behavior program in action. The last I heard was from animal trainers who have offered their services free of charge to help socialize animals and were refused by the Fritch's.


Here's the full list that is on the Lehigh Co. Humane Soc.'s website:

What the LCHS does for the Lehigh Valley as a full-service shelter:

• Provides sanctuary and care for all strays and injured animals
• Maintains facilities to provide extensive medical care
• Accepts owner relinquished animals
• Encourages adoptions of animals by qualified, new owners
• Makes diligent efforts to find the true owners of stray animals
• Supports a very active spay/neuter program through the shelter’s well
equipped surgery clinic

• Conducts cruelty investigations
• Provides emergency ambulance service on a 24/7 basis
• Supports an extensive education program for children, high school

students and adults
• Houses and quarantines suspected rabid animals for Lehigh County
• Works with reputable breed rescue groups
• Fosters animals to selected foster groups
• Maintains an animal behavior program to make animals more readily

adoptable
• Sponsors a Seniors for Pets program at preferred adoption rates.
• Supports an intensive, accredited two-year training initiative for

veterinary technicians at the Lehigh Carbon Community College and the

Northampton County Area Community College

Warm Hearts 4 Cold Noses

Donna Dougherty started this group with a mission of helping to place homeless animals into forever homes. Please visit her site . There is always a need for volunteers in many areas. Even an hour a week of your time can mean life to a dog or cat on death row in a shelter.

When Donna volunteered at the Lehigh Valley Humane Society, she offered to start this group to help them place more animals. She saw first hand how high their kill numbers were compared to how many were actually adopted out. Guess what Connie Fritch told Donna after her offer to help stop killing so many animals??? Connie told her to 'take a break' from volunteering .

But that didn't stop Donna, it only made her more determined.

website: http://www.warmhearts4coldnoses.com

IDEAS FOR CHANGE

Any ideas for how we can get the message to LCHS that we aren't kidding... We want changes and we want them now.

Please post any ideas you have , no matter how small or insignificant you might think they are. Brainstorm away!!!
You never know where an idea or thought might lead.

Calling the shelter daily (as NoKill Advocate posted) and just blasting them with whatever.... (their number is 610-797-1205)

Calling any and all local media - the more calls they get, the better chances they will write about it.
Letters to the Editor of the Morning Call. You can do this right on their website under Opinions, and Submit a Letter.
mcall.com

Lehigh County and rescues

This poor husky sat patiently at LCHS waiting for a home. I don't know if he was adopted or killed. There are many husky rescues that could have been contacted by them.
Does Lehigh Co. work with enough rescues to keep the amount of animals they kill as low as possible? Well, ask some local rescues who have tried to get dogs from there into their rescue. They were refused. Seems the shelter would rather kill them than let another find a home. Could it be just more loss of revenue?
So many questions, too many secrets.

Thoughts on the shelter's 2 million dollar budget?

In many articles and public information on the shelter, their almost 2 million dollar bank account figures brings up questions of why are so many animals dying when they have so much money just sitting in the bank.
During an interview I asked what happened to 95,000 earmarked spay/neuter and Alice Zunaut replied..."how do you know about that - um, it's in an account....."

Should this money be sitting in an account? Or should it be used to spay and neuter every possible pet in the valley?? Another shelter received the same bequest, in the same amount..guess what? They used their money for spay/neuter.

Should the shelter open its doors to spay/neuter any animal, regardless of whether the animal was adopted there or not?? I think yes, it should. Of course, in the eyes of Lehigh Co. Humane, this would drastically reduce the influx of animals and thereby reduce the their revenue.
It is a business, after all...isn't it Bruce Fritch....


Any thoughts??

Customer Service at Lehigh County ??

Anyone deal with Alice or Connie?

Help stop the killing

Please post and email this blog address to all who might want to help the animals at the Lehigh Co. Humane Society.
We are dedicated to reducing their disturbing high kill rate of approx. 6,000 each year. While they have an almost 2 million dollar bank account, this high rate is alarming and unnecessary.

Many steps can be taken to increase adoption rate such as off-site adoptions, meet and greets, extensive use of foster homes and rescue groups - just to name a few.

Thanks to all for your compassion.