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Not everyone can adopt a pet
By TAMMY KIRK
Reporter
The black dog lay whining on
the gray, cold floor with his
tongue lapped over the edge of
his mouth. His eyes rolled back
in his head, he began to bleed,
and then he was still.
Such was the account of
Kathy Lewis’ experience as she
watched a puppy die at the Bra
zos Animal Shelter last week.
Lewis, a sophomore studying
wanted to adopt a puppy from
the shelter. She says she and her
fiance were denied the right be
cause they weren’t permanent
residents, and therefore not fit
speech communications,
owners.
“It upset me because I knew I
could give it a home.” Lewis
said. “And after watching that
other puppy dying, I knew the
puppy I wanted would probably
die too.”
Kathy Ricker, director of the
Brazos Animal Shelter, says that
even though the pets at the
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shelter need homes, not just
anyone can adopt the animals.
A commitment must be made
on a long-term basis, Ricker
said.
“It’s a big commitment, like
adopting a child,” Ricker said.
There have been several cases
in which the owners who
adopted a pet learned their
rented apartment or home
managers didn’t allow animals,
or couldn’t pay thier managers
the pet deposit fee, or couldn’t
take the pets home with them
for the summer, Ricker said.
These cases usually result in
abandonment, and the animals
are left to die from starvation or
injuries, Ricker said.
“It is left up to our discretion
whether we feel the people who
apply for the pets will provide a
stable home,” she said. ,
Lewis said she and her fiance
wouldn’t have taken the time to
be interviewed or to look at the
animals if they hadn’t had good
intentions.
“We really did want the
puppy, in fact, we were going to
get two,” Lewis said. She said
she understood the reservations
of the animal shelter in wanting
to find an appropriate home for
the animals, but when they put
so many animals to sleep it
made her mad that she had
been denied.
In 1983, the Brazos Animal
Shelter euthanized 4,614, 72
percent, of 6,404 pets turned in
to the shelter. Ricker said that
these statistics cannot be used
without mentioning that animal
control is a national problem. A
conservative estimate of the na
tion’s average for euthaniza-
tion, she said, is 20,000 a week.
Many of the animals that
come to the shelter are sick or
injured and this accounts for
the high death rate, Ricker said.
“We are trying to save our
animals from going through the
trauma and fear of being aban
doned or injured,” Ricker said.
By interviewing the applicants,
Ricker says they can get an idea
of how the pet will be cared for.
Questions such as, “Will this
animal be a family pet that you
plan on keeping for the rest of
its life?” and “Where will the an
imal be kept?” help the shelter
determine the status of the per
spective owners.
Last year, the abandonment
rate for pets was highest during
the summer. In June there were
over 800 animals turned in at
the shelter, and in August there
were over 600.
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By Tricia Parker
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to no one, but a poll conducted
by two political science societies
on campus has shown that stu
dents at Texas A&M are conser
vative.
David Dunaway, who orga
nized the survey for the Political
Science Society and Pi Sigma
Alpha, says the results of the
poll show that students at Texas
A&M are overwhelmingly con
servative in their ideology and
choice of political parties.
The poll was drawn from the
responses to 200 questionaires.
Dunaway said that every effort
was made to find a representa
tive sample of students to par
ticipate in the survey.
“We tried to ensure a rep
resentative sample," he said.
“We got breakdowns of the stu
dent body by sex, classification,
social affiliation and things like
that and then sent people out to
find them.”
Dunaway said he thinks these
methods made the survey accu
rate.
“It’s as accurate as you can
get without spending $5,000,”
he said.
Michael Northrup, president
of the Pi Sigma Alpha political
honor society, said the poll of
fered few surprises. He said
that in general, education has a
liberalizing effect on people.
But at Texas A&M the poll
shows that students are conser
vative when they get here and
become more so the more edu
cated they become.
The poll showed that 54 per
cent of seniors and 46 percent
of freshman polled were Re
publicans. The percentage of
Democrats increased from 9 to
13 percent from freshman to
senior years and the percentage
of independents went from 37
percent for freshmen to 28 per
cent for seniors.
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those polled consider
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