SPCA Closed in Stroudsburg, and maybe regionally! (Scranton, Media: homes, college)

[Summering]

PSPCA's closure of Stroudsburg facility creates public health problem - poconorecord.com - The Pocono Record

Oh My Gosh.......I got an alert on the computer yesterday at about 3Pm that the Stroudsburg SPCA would close at 4PM for GOOD!
There was a quick meeting on Wednesday that put this into the works.
Apparently from this article above it states that perhaps all "regional" SPCA's will close. All our stray pets may wind up in one central place in Philly.
When word got out all the pets were spoken for before the 4PM closure.
( thank goodness)
They won't give any answers to the Pocono Record. Whats up with that?
This organization has been in Stroudsburg for as long as I can remember.
Our extended family got many pets from them.....saving the lost or unwanted pets from an untimely ending.
I'm sad about this closing, and I hope the answers are forthcoming.
I also want to know what the status is on other SPCA's in other towns.
Is yours going to close too?
Something is just not right with the abruptness of this closing.........
I want to say I am thankful to those who steped forward before the animals had to journey to the far off city. I'm sure they have way too many there to give each pet some personal care.
Please tell me, what will the locals do now when they find a stray, or when a pet needs a shelter.........Head to Philly?
That won't happen........so now what?

[Summering]

I have to add that is 50 years in operation.........Fifty!
There has to be some place for pets locally. This is not good............

[poconoproud]

what about me?


that is very bad news indeed....

[sausages]

does anyone know what happens now when a stray is found -- with all the foresclosures the SPCA is need more than ever - The Humane Society in Lackawanna County could not handle anymore than they have - do we know anymore about this ?

[Summering]

I am just floored about it.............Sad and in disbelief.

There will be dogs and cats left at the end of that road.......and no one will be there to save them.
I think there was a bunch of politics going on. Sometimes I think the politics are way, way, worse then what is spoken of in the Scranton sections here.

Down here in South Carolina there was a horrible story this month. The dog virus got at a few dogs and they all had to be put to sleep. ( I'm sorry I don't remember the name of the virus.....but, I have heard of these circumstances before)
Then they finally got it back open and the cats all caught something and had to be put to sleep.
This is a difficult job for these caretakers. Many are just volunteers, with huge hearts.
I'm sure the paid workers don't get paid enough for the hours and time, and heartbreaking stories they endure.
I think the answers are known, but not coming out in the open.
I may have needed their services myself with the feral cat issue back home.
I will be working on getting each and every cat fixed, but then I wonder what to do from there.
This is something I have never dealt with personally. It becomes difficult because we don't spend winters home.
The only savior for the ferals is that I hired the Pet Nanny, and my girls have been a Godsend.......
I want to work with them some more, fix them, and get them homes.
In the short time I did have with them, they were coming around......being people friendly.

Yes, sausages...........the SPCA is needed more then ever. I have seen where in Penn Estates......A person would move and leave their dog tied up on the deck. So now what.....Where will an animal go.

I think many won't appreciate what they have until they loose it. There may have been a few things done wrong there ( one procedure that I can not read about).....but, the place is needed.

Lucky that one other group took the animals in. There are a few no kill organizations around.......
They will be the ones to carry this on their shoulders most likely.

[Summering]

PSPCA's closure:
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbc...DIA01/81218024

Well here is a video explaining the politics of the issue.....Oh the dogs are just so cute, it makes me sad.........Why politics? Why didn't someone go in there and put in the people who could do the job right.

[Summering]

Originally Posted by Summering

PSPCA's closure:
PoconoRecord.com Video

Well here is a video explaining the politics of the issue.....Oh the dogs are just so cute, it makes me sad.........Why politics? Why didn't someone go in there and put in the people who could do the job right.

There is also an article on a pet rescue adoption in the Pocono Record today.........its on this weekend.

[mrskenl]

first of all with all the high costs vetenarians charge... no wonder no one wants pets anymore. they can't afford to take care of them properly. isn't there something that can be done to lower the cost of these outrageous vet fees? i'd rather donate half of what i have to pay to the spca if the spca had a center to give our pets the same shots and services they need than to pay full price of these vetenarians. and by having that kind of lower cost service to the consumers, you may well have some more pet owners and less pets in a rescue shelter... just my opinion =Debbie.

[mrskenl]

you know what? the spca should open a center for consumers... the spca-vetmart for peoples pets. "lower vet care costs for you and your pet". you'll see where everyone goes for pet doctors. then spca will be on top of the world for animal care.

[DE_NePA]

Originally Posted by mrskenl

you know what? the spca should open a center for consumers... the spca-vetmart for peoples pets. "lower vet care costs for you and your pet". you'll see where everyone goes for pet doctors. then spca will be on top of the world for animal care.

And where will you get the veterinarian who spent and went to college for 8 plus years to perform those services for less at the SPCA versus his private office? YOu missed your chance to have subsidies included in Obamacare...