These people are wonderful. If I lived in the US I would like to do this for the cats that are scheduled to be euthanised. To be honest I would like to take every person who dumps their cat or dog in a kill shelter and put them to sleep cos they do not deserve to live!!!

I can never bring myself to spend time with those dogs time and time again. I become too emotionally attached to dogs too easily and I would absolutely hate to see them go the very next morning. Bless these people for spending their time and taking on a very painful job.

I can never bring myself to spend time with those dogs time and time again. I become too emotionally attached to dogs too easily and I would absolutely hate to see them go the very next morning. Bless these people for spending their time and taking on a very painful job.

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I admire these people so much. There is something about a dog that looks into your soul and knows you are their protector. Unfortunately in California they are looking at a bill to reduce funding for shelters. I live in northern California and all of our shelters are 'no kill'.
As to could I do this: My german shepard was with his family up until he was euthanized due to cancer. I wish with all my heart that I had been beside him with our vet and regret to this day that I was not. So, long story short I would do this, as heartbreaking as it must be, I would do this to honor the memory of my 'Moby'.

Imiss my best mate max as i had him put down he was looking and pleading with me with his eyes he got sick but just before the vet came he come good jumping up to sit with me and cuddling up to me but i should have told the vet no to give him more time i am so sorry

God bless them! I wish I could be strong enough to do something like that, but I know myself and I will cry all night long.

These people are truly wonderful angels of mercy.....their hearts must be broken over & over again but they think of the poor dogs - not themselves. God bless their wonderful work. I think about how I stayed up for two nights with my dear father before he passed away....the difference being he was terminally ill whereas most of these beautiful dogs are healthy. People who abandoned their dogs/cats to this certain death should be made to read this. I am heartbroken as I write this and lok at this picture of a lsmiling dog unaware of the fate that awaits him/her...the killing will have to stop...these poor dogs didn't ask to be born.

This is truly an amazing program. Just hearing about this touches my heart. These volunteers are wonderful people, bless them. I'm sure these dogs are truly the most grateful creatures, and even once they have come to the rainbow bridge I'm sure they remember the love they felt before they died. This is a wonderful idea and I hope to start a similar program in my area one day.

god bless the ppl that have the compassion to do this i wish i could i think it would feel like having my heart ripped out everytime one would have to be put down !!!rip to all the doggies that have to go threw this ...........i hope one day they all find a home and ppl are held accountable for thier actions and all the ppl that abuse dogs should all go to hell !!!!!!!!! sorry for the language but i have myself rescued dogs from awful places as the nyacc and such a tradgedy everytime i go thier ........... i try to do my best and god bless ........

This is so sad, that I burst into tears when I saw the picture. It's a shame that beautiful, healthy dogs are being euthanized due to the lack of a home. I would want to help a program like this, even though I would go home broken-hearted everyday! PLEASE spay and neuter your pets so maybe someday programs like this one won't be necessary!! God bless all of the volunteers for giving love to an animal on his last night on "death row"

No, because they would be taken home with me. It isn't their fault their owners are losers. I have read some of the reasons people give when abandoning their pets up at our local shelter, the reasons are pathetic. "Moving and new place doesn't accept dogs". Who would even look at places who do not accept pets?! We are moving next week and I only looked at places that would take my rescued 70lb Lab mix.

If you had a child would you move to an adults only community and then leave your kid at an orphanage?
To true pet owners, our dogs ARE our children.

These dogs should be given another chance, but such is the society we live in. Everything is disposable.

I volunteer 3 X a week or more walking dogs and training dogs at my local shelter. The hardest thing in the world is not bawling your eyes out when a dog is determined to no longer be a candidate for adoption and must be euthanized. I've gone with a dog twice to the euthanasia room and had tears leaking out of my eyes the whole time. The first time the dog had no clue and I was trying to keep it together to keep him happy up to the last minute. He got some special time outside for the hour - 2 hours before and a big cheeseburger from the drive-thru. I brought special treats. I screamed all the way home crying all alone in my car. And I hugged my furkids at home. The second time I went to the euthasia there were several of us who just loved this dog. None of us had room in our homes for either of these dogs that showed no consistency in why they bite after rigorous evaluation by a trained and certified behaviorist. This is rare at our facility, the euthanasia. We save far more dogs than we euthanize. Thank doG that spay and neuter is catching on.

Wow................. I have done rescue now for nearly 15 years. Every dog that is deathly ill, or in pain, and in NEED of being euthanized, I am there, with them, and I do the same, their final DAYS with me. It's draining, to say the least, but I feel it's my final GIFT to them.

It's just so sad that there is so many dogs BEING euthanized......... that black shepherd looks totally adoptable, so it seems really sad that she was euthanized....

Until people start being more responsible, we are going to have this horrific overpopulation problems.

God Bless you folks who are giving all of your love to these wayward souls............. I just wish there wasn't such a NEED for you........

If they had ine in CT as much as it would hurt me I would find solice in knowing that I brought some joy to a dog in it's last moments....so I would volnteer

I have to admit that I just bursted into tears at the sight of this post. It's just too sad. I couldn't do it, thought I wish I could.

That's really sad

I also have a rescue family of 3 dogs & 3 cats, 2 birds ...I worked with a wolf rescue for many years and petted a MANY of dogs & horses before they where put down..it was sad so I take my hat off to this group !

As an inspriring writer I would like to ask the questions ..

.If everyone across the US that was willing take a animal from the kill shelters /and have that pet fixed ...would it change the many numbers that are put down yearly?
If every shelter allowed one homeless person to have a pet ...and the feed stores help with the food for them ...would it change the numbers that are put down yearly?

I have taken in 2 different homeless people that stayed in my garage long enough to get on their feet ( about 6-9 months ..my only request was when they could they adopted a pet from the shelter ...they did so and are now employed & a pet has a good home .

You are a GREAT people!God give you health! God bless you! I'd probably couldn't do it ... my heart would burst into pieces. One of our dogs was homeless for some time ago now this dog lives with us.Why are so many homeless animals in your country and here in Russia? Animals are defenseless and many people are so cruel. All of these dogs you help go to heaven. They go with the idea that not all people are terrible, there are those people who are able to love. Sorry for my bad English. But I just don't have enough words to express to you my admiration and my thanks to you.

You are a GREAT people!God give you health! God bless you! I'd probably couldn't do it ... my heart would burst into pieces. One of our dogs was homeless for some time ago now this dog lives with us.Why are so many homeless animals in your country and here in Russia? Animals are defenseless and many people are so cruel. All of these dogs you help go to heaven. They go with the idea that not all people are terrible, there are those people who are able to love. Sorry for my bad English. But I just don't have enough words to express to you my admiration and my thanks to you.

I would think that it gives the animal a false sense of hope. Here they think that they are getting out and going to have a happy life just to be put in a room and killed the next day never seeing the light of day again. I don't know how anyone could kill one of God's innocent creations.

this is the most heart wrenching thing i have ever read....god bless all these ppl who have the heart and are able to do this kind gesture for these prescious animals.I wish i had the emotional stability to do this but my heart is breaking just reading the story....

God Bless all of you..What a loving think to do... Great program.

if you get past your own sorrow
if you get past your own tears
you have a tomorrow
today,for their fears♥

May God bless you all in your work--and all the dogs in the world who have no one to love them. Sincerely, Stephanie and her "off the streets" crew, Grenas (pit mix, ~2), Catorce (chihuahua mix, ~3), and Diogi (chow mix, ~9).

I am sitting here with such a broken heart, but being blessed at the same time that there is such loving people in this world to stay with the dogs whos lives are being destroyed because....to comfort and love them in their final hours is such a God given ability. I am a former hospice nurse and have done my job with tears and yes it hurts to see a human being leave this earth but when it comes to these creatures of Gods, way to many healthy deserving to live ones are just taken away, it hurts me so so bad. Thank you group for your kindness at this time of great need, I wish I could do it and maybe God will give me the strength to start something like that here in my town.

if more people and children would go to the shelters and sit once with an animal on death row, and show love , give treats, walks, what ever is needed for that animal , maybe more would not be put down,, maybe if the schools made a field trip to shelters and teach the children what the shelter is about , their minds might change when older.

Amazing people as I could never do this....my heart would be broken and I would be in-consolable....in a good world we should never have to do this as we should be able to find home for these babies...

Doesn't it give the animal a sense of false
hope?

I think you do an amazing job,it´s so nice, that you help them to feel love in their last moments.i am often with animals that get to put down,because i work in an animal hospital,and i always whisper in their ear before they pass away, that my Mam´will take care of them now, because she is in heaven allready!!it is like they understand me, and go away from that world with a smile!!i wish you a wonderful christmas & God bless you!!Lots of love from Spain!!yours Silke

My stomach turns round and round, my heart too. This is AGAIN one of the saddest things

I heard about. I coudn`t do that, I would break inside. Thank, Love, Respect to those volunteers. They are just ANGELS!

You are all wonderful people for what you do!! I couldn't imagine how hard it would be knowing that these poor dogs will be put to sleep for ever!! I am in tears just thinking about it. How special to be able to give a dog who probably hasn't had much of a life that sense of love and compassion for the last time. Thank you so much for doing what you do!!!!

I am here, in Tears, I cant hardly Breathe, This is the Saddest thing ever...........I commend these people. I couldnt do it. I would Take home Every Animal.........When is the Senseless Killing of these Innocent and Loving Animals going to stop!?!??

Thank you with all my heart to those of you volunteers who have the courage to do this. My heart would be ripped open, and I would end up taking them all home with me, and I already have 3 dogs and 4 cats at home.

God bless you ... I only wish that we could find homes for all these beautiful creatures.

Thank you for helping these animals. I don't know if i could do what you do. I rescue and foster. What you do requires so much more courage.

What else can I say other than DOG BLESS YOU for doing what my heart could not handle!

It is by far better to euthenize,it is pain ful gas chambers,I like the volunteers comfort these dogs/cats/animals,join with me ,banning all gas chambers as a form of euthinization..

@Telling it Like it Is.....Instead of bad mouthing open admission shelters why don't you join forces with them like Pets Alive Austin? These shelters get the dredge of the city/county budget. Their employees are paid 8 bucks an hour, the Executive Directors are lucky if they make 40k. They work long hours, even after they are punched out. They all have many hard-to-place pets at home. It is all well and good to bitch about the archaic system, point fingers, be angry at those who have to do society's dirty work, but the fact is that there are not the funds to make changes. Best Friends Animal Society, the country's "no-kill" model, raised over 30 million dollars last year and adopted out around 1500 pets. I live in a town of 16,000 people and our open admission shelter adopted out twice that many pets at a fraction of that. Animal welfare receives .1 percent of all the charitable dollars in the United States, and groups like HSUS, ASPCA, and Best Friends raked in the vast majority of that money-over $250,000,000 in 2009. With that kind of money endowments could be set up in every state to subsidize spay/neuter for pets of low-income households. But then they would all be out of a job.

I can't imagine how difficult of a job this must be for a dog lover, just absolutely heartbreaking. These volunteers are truly angels on earth.

Spay and this would not be needed!