Wydell was interviewed again, this time by the Galveston Daily News. It was a favorable article, but contained several inaccuracies or things that should have been clarified. But at least it's publicity, right?
(notes in parentheses are mine)
http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=854a06cfd0ac89f8
Animal rescuers shying away from shelters
By Leslie Contreras
The Daily News
Published April 27, 2006
For 22 years, Wydell Dixon has been rescuing animals that would otherwise end up in shelters.
She began taking in stray cats while working at Amoco, at one point housing up to 50 cats in an outside enclosure at her home. (Not true. The cats were kept inside her home, not in an outdoor enclosure! That's ABSURD since we require all adopted cats to be kept inside!)
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In 2000, Dixon formally organized her rescue program in Texas City. With retirement funds, she created Whiskerville, dubbed the only no-kill animal shelter in the county. Last year, the facility euthanized six animals because of extreme illness, she said. (True, but some people will think it's a contradiction to call yourself no-kill and to euthanize sick animals. It would have been nice if they explained that kill shelters kill for space, to save money, and just because an animal isn't "adoptable," whereas we ONLY euthanize if quality of life is gone. We do NOT let animals suffer needlessly)
There was a graph that doesn't appear in the online version, which made it look like we don't do much. We only have the capacity to have a few hundred animals at a time, and of those only SIX were euthanized last year, and only out of compassion. Yet the graph focuses on total numbers, not proportions, so since the county shelters and SPCA deal with thousands of animals per year, we look like a little blip on the screen. :eyes:
They also go on to talk about a lady on our freecycle list who has an "informal" shelter at her home, and just had all her animals confiscated. She posted a frantic message recently when they came to shut her down. She doesn't spay or neuter. I don't know if she has some sort of objection to doing so, or if she doesn't have the funds available for it.
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