(At Left: Murphy is a handsome Cattle Dog Mix who is up to date on his shots. He came from a home somewhere and is a well mannered, HOUSEBROKEN and very lovable boy and appears to be in excellent health. UPDATE: A rescue is stepping up for him, but he needs a home to bunk down in for two weeks in order to meet his ride and make his jailbreak possible. Please contact the volunteers below to help. Adopters also welcome if you would like to give him a permanent home.)
The dogs and cats…especially the dogs…at Clayton County Animal Control in Jonesboro, Georgia, need your help. Many pets at many pets need your help. Euthanasia happens at least twice a week, but this past week, a third day was added. 54 dogs were on the list. An offsite vet comes to euthanize and if they are there and an owner turn in dog comes in, that dog doesn’t get any time. There is no “three day hold” for them when the shelter is filled to the brim. Dogs just keep coming in.
However, the bright light is that the volunteers that help this shelter are extremely organized and have a system. If you are a member of a rescue and make intake decisions and can take even just one beautiful dog, please contact jm doro (at) earthlink.net. They have a Facebook page called Partners with Clayton County Animal Control. There is a folder called ANIMALS IN NEED OF RESCUE/ADOPTION that the volunteers do their best to keep up to date. This week, there was a Great Pyrenese, many purebred Chihuahuas as well as beautiful “Pure Bred Georgia Brown Dogs.” So, please visit the shelter if you are local to adopt or if you are a decision maker at a breed or all-breed rescue, the volunteers are there to help you help them. They are standing by now and waiting for your offer of fostering a dog for a few days or weeks, accepting a dog into your rescue or if you see a dog and know that they are “the one.”
Delgado is a young mixed breed dog (some sort of shepherd crossed with a bully breed) who has found himself at a county pound through no fault of his own. Raised and owned by an elderly couple, his youthful exuberance was too much for them to handle. Rather than hiring a dog walker or neighborhood teen to play with him on occasion, or rather than fostering them themselves for a rescue until a suitable family was found, they took him to the pound.
More and more rescue groups are setting up adoption days at public places, like at a local 
This medium-haired beautiful cat is in need of immediate rescue and medical attention. She has a sweet personality, despite her pain. She has a broken back leg. It is unclear what exactly happened to her, but she was picked up by animal control and has not been claimed. If you are a decision maker at a cat or multi-species rescue or have been looking to adopt a friendly cat, she is located at Heard County Animal Control in Franklin, Georgia. Slightly out of the area adopters are welcome.
Petango is a brand new site where you can search for dogs and cats that are at shelters right now. Some of them are shelters where dogs and cats only get a few days before being euthanized, and some are rescue groups that rescue and rehabilitate dogs and cats from shelters. I don’t see many of the shelters that I regularly post for or volunteer for, but it just means that they have to sign up. The interface is a bit more friendly to those who are used to using Facebook and Twitter.
While I tend to look at dogs first, as I am owned by two myself, I have to emphasize that when you go to 
(Pluto is a lab mix. He is neutered and up to date on shots. He is approximately two years old).
There are some things that just make me angry, like this sweet Beagle Bassett at a Georgia shelter. She is being labelled a Bassett mix, but I really think she is a Beagle/Bassett combo or is Beagle and Corgi. Either way, she is as cute as a button. Her family decided that they didn’t want her any more because she had a couple accident. She just started urinating a lot, so off to the pound she went. The staff informs people that if a dog is not adopted, they will be euthanized, but apparently that doesn’t matter to them.
This sweet girl would make the perfect family pet. Hounds are loyal, are typically good with kids, and aim to please. She is 45-50 lbs and 2-3 yrs old. Her id number is 56909. Her sweet face is etched in the mind of several volunteers, and they don’t seem to be able to make any headway as far as generating any interest in her. She is a very nice girl who is somehow being overlooked.
I’ve been really frustrated with Petfinder lately. There is a shelter that I know euthanized quite a few dogs and cats, yet they are still on Petfinder. The shelter swears up and down that they updated the site over the weekend, but it still is not updating. Maybe its still in the cache. I have cleared my cookies and opened other browsers and the story is the same. It would be great if they were still there, but I have a feeling people will concentrate on dogs that are no longer there, and in the meantime, new dogs will be euthanized for lack of interest.