Wayside Waifs sends volunteers to Houston on VOLUNTEER's expense

Yesterday, I was at a meeting and a friend was telling me how Wayside Waifs asked her to go to Houston to help rescue animals. She was told to bring a tent to sleep in and pay her own way. Although the volunteers are expected to pay their own way, I can predict the headlines:

Wayside Waifs sends volunteers to help animals affected by Ike.This implies they paid for it. There will be no disclaimer saying that the volunteers had to pay their own way. For those of you who don't live here or don't know, Wayside Waifs has tons of money. They are the most well known shelter in Kansas City and many people donate money to them.

On a side note, they are not no-kill and I am not even sure they could be considered low kill.

Here is some financial information from Wayside Waifs for 2006 (I assume the most recent year available)

For a comparison, here is the information for the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City. The Humane Society of Greater Kansas City is about 25 miles away from Wayside Waifs.

Dog Missing For Months Reunites With Family in Kansas City, Missouri

Another chained dog is stolen.

This is just one more reason NOT to chain your dogs, people.

But this story has a happy ending...just barely.

A dog named Raina, was taken off her chain and stolen.

In October, someone stole a 2 1/2-year-old dog named Raina from the home of Mike and Felicia Robinson in Barnhart. The dog was taken off the chain and her collar was left on the ground.

The family posted fliers and looked all over for her, even though it should have been apparent that she was stolen, since her collar was left on the ground. After looking on Petfinder.com, they found their dog somewhere in the middle of the state (of Missouri).

The Web site showed that the family dog was in a mid-Missouri shelter."So I called them up and they said, 'Yeah, we had her but we shipped her to Kansas City,'" Mike Robinson said. The dog was in a shelter in Bunker. On Feb. 1, Raina was shipped to Wayside Waifs in Kansas City because of overflow.

This is where the "barely" happy ending comes in. Despite what they want you to believe, Wayside Waifs DOES kill for space, DOES kill animals that are completely healthy and DOES kill often. I know for a fact that Wayside kills kittens! I saw it with my own eyes as a volunteer. Click here to read my experience with Wayside Waifs.

These owners are lucky they found her in time...or she could be dead.