Humane Societies of the Imperial Valley causing health hazards.

Seeing as to how many years I have felt like starting one myself, but had nowhere to take it from and no funding to start myself up, I checked in on a few humane societies.

The one in Calexico, CA is in shambles. It's a large fence with a few fenced kennels inside. They aren't protected from any kind of weather hazards, from any kinds of disease whatsoever. I imagine they give you a free ticket to get your animal a checkup, but what good will it do if it's going to die in a week?

The one in El Centro, CA is a different story. I went there, and saw how it was infested with stray cats. You can't take a step anywhere without one crowding around your feet. They seem to come in from all over the place, missing eyes, pieces of skin, or just plainly sick. There are two rooms for the cats. They're run by many elderly ladies and a few people who want to do something good for the animals. Sadly, they aren't helping out much. We adopted a kitten from there a few months ago, who died a day after. It had spasms and seemed to be generally sickly. We thought we could help him, and we could. Afterwards, we adopted another kitten, and it seemed fine. It was a nice, healthy christmas present.

About a month later, one of our own house cats died the same way. It was a sad moment for everyone, as we saw him slowly wither away. After some mild research, it seemed to be a strain of the Panleukopenia Virus. It must have affected specific cats, since another one we had in the same household seemed unaffected by the disease. After speaking to a veterenarian, he never mentioned it once. He just said that it would be useless to give it the shots if it died, as that would be a waste. He also said that it didn't seem likely that they would both have the same disease. We believed him, so we got another cat. A nice young kitten. He died two weeks after we brought him in. It wasn't a nice sight.

I haven't been able to check if there are any other humane societies within the rest of the valley. But based on what i've seen from these, I don't have much hope for the rest. Please keep your pets safe, and stay away from these disease ridden organizations until they either clean up their act, or someone such as myself steps in to take the preventative steps as to not murder the animals in a household.