Complaints that have been received from one specific group (a small group of disgruntled ex-employees and volunteers) concerning the BAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY STAFF & rescue organization staff. The policies are certainly not DEADLY. There has been no healthy adoptable animal euthanized since Director Messick was hired. Rescue groups are welcome in the event that a dog is NOT adoptable. If the humane society can place them, they do not turn them over to rescue groups %u2013 only when an animal is difficult to place. The rescue groups are required to pay NOTHING to take that animal, however.
The policies of the Humane Society (open adoption) is endorsed by major national organizations such as the ASPCA and the Humane Society of the United States. I encourage you to check with them prior to signing this petition. Director Messick has fought hard in his career AGAINST breed specific bans, so I am certain they are not targeting specific breeds to euthanize. What qualifies a dog to be euthanized is 1. Illness (untreatable), 2. Aggressiveness (unrehabitable). THAT%u2019S IT!
I believe the shelter using a nationally recognized tracking software, which would make it impossible to "fudge" numbers. The numbers speak for themselves %u2013 they have a return to shelter rate of 3% (national average is 11%) and have not euthanized ANY HEALTHY, ADOPTABLE animal.
PLEASE, PLEASE CALL ROGER MESSICK, DIRECTOR OF BAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY, TO VOICE YOUR SUPPORT:
Roger Messick
Executive Director
director@bayareahumanesociety.com
469-3110 ext. 19
We, the undersigned, would like to SAVE ANIMALS asking for NO changes in the leadership at the above organization, believing that this organization's leadership DOES HAVE THE BEST INTEREST OF ANIMALS IN MIND
