My professors opinion on Euthanasia in animal shelters

This topic is something I feel strongly about. In my jtech class we do surgeries on the
animals in the shelter so I see many different animals come in. It always makes me sad to see
them leave because I don’t know what will happen to them when they leave. I can only hope
that they get adopted and I know that I helped them come closer to that. Luckily the West
Jordan animal shelter is a No Kill shelter, so none of the animals should be killed. We spay and
neuter all the animals that come in from the shelter so that they don’t reproduce more animals
that would most likely go into the shelter. I knew the exact person to talk to for my profile, my
professor Dr. Frampton.
In my class we learn a lot about animals and surgery things. I didn’t know much about
what was happening in animal shelters because no one really talks about it. People talk about
puppy mills and adopt don’t shop. No one really asks the hard questions about shelters, so I
decided to be that person to my professor. I asked him the hard questions about Animal
Shelters and what he thinks.
After surgery had finished I walked up to my teacher and asked if I could interview him
for a school project, he agreed and sat down. I started getting to know him a little better and
found out that Dr. Frampton has been a licensed veterinarian for 32 years. Got his degree at
Colorado State University, and then moved to the University of Georgia and University of
Wisconsin. Dr. Frampton has adopted many animals before and he now works on pets from the
shelter so he is very educated in this field of work. He knew a lot about animal shelters and
euthanasia because he works closely with them.
Dr. Frampton had a lot to say on this topic. He said, “If shelters are currently killing
shelters (shelters that will euthanize animals due to aggression, not being adopted, or simply
because there is no more space in the shelter) then that most likely means that they don’t have
enough funds from the city to try and rehome the animals or expand the shelter.” He also said,
“They should spay and neuter the pets and then release them on the streets.” In my class that's
what we do with the feral cats and they end up just fine and don’t reproduce.
He was very confident in his answers and despite sitting on a very small chair he didn’t
seem nervous with the questions at all. He is very well educated, making it easier to trust his
answers. Dr. Frampton keeps a few of the animals that are spayed and neutered because they
aren't feral and they probably wouldn't get adopted so they'd die. He takes care of them and
gives them a decent life to live. He also said, “No shelter is always 100% kill, they kill 10% still
because that's just unrealistic” just like Matt Gephardt said in “What No Kill Really Means.”
Frampton is an old school veterinarian, so he doesn’t see things as some of us would. Most
shelters are doing great, he said also like Daryl Lindsay said in “h​ow are they doing? Utah
animal shelters head into second year of no-kill initiative”​ He states, “Many shelters trade
animals with each other and organizations like Best Friends Animal Sancutary try and give them
a better shot at living.” He did say that he believes animals should be put down if they are old
and are not in a good quality of life. Shelters can't be 100% kill free because they have to put
down the old animals that are no longer healthy. Like he previously said that shelters don’t have
funding from the city and that’s why they are no kill. They have the space to expand and the
animals to expand it for they just need the funding.
 Frampton has been a veterinarian all over the United states. He knows how other places
work and if they were effective or not, although it was a while ago. Most veterinarians like him
know a lot about the veterinary world and know the issues in shelters, he knows a lot. One of
the girls I interviewed also said that she thinks they should expand the animal shelters instead
of just killing the animals for no reason. Frampton thinks strongly about the pets in the shelter
and cares about their welfare because that is in the veterinary oath and it is their duty to do.
Since he takes care of the pets from the shelter he is over them and tries to spay and neuter as
many of them as he can so that less of them can be euthanized in the shelter. As we were
wrapping up our discussion he left me with the comment of, “We don't want to kill animals that
don’t need to be killed.”
In conclusion Frampton said a lot of valuable information, he wrapped up by saying, “I
am happy that I did adopt, because I saved a few animals' lives.” Which he does everyday when
he spays and neuters the animals in class. I thanked him for his time and picked up my things
and left the room to think about everything he had said.

Shelter partnerships. (2019, October 28). Retrieved February 19, 2020, from
https://utah.bestfriends.org/our-programs/shelter-partnerships
Gephardt, M., & Poe, M. (2019, February 20). What 'no-kill' really means for homeless pets in
Utah. Retrieved February 19, 2020, from
https://kutv.com/news/get-gephardt/what-no-kill-really-means-for-homeless-pets-in-utah
Lindsey, D. (2016, April 4). How are they doing? Utah animal shelters head into second year of
no-kill initiative. Retrieved February 19, 2020, from
https://kutv.com/news/local/how-are-they-doing-utah-animal-shelters-head-into-second-y
ear-of-no-kill-initiati

Goals and choices-

For my profile revision, my goal was to separate my essay into different paragraphs and focus
on Frampton. There are also a few punctuation and grammar errors. I need to make this more
of a narrative. One of my peer reviewers said I shouldn’t state my questions so I am planning on
changing that too. Some of the choices I made were smart just because it is explaining medical
things so there isn’t really any other way to go around that and my peer reviewers wanted me to
change it but I don’t think I will. I also really wanted to make more sources more prominent and
noticeable. I put them in there in a weird way and didn’t quote anything really and I think it
makes a big difference in my writing. I worded some of my sentences in a weird way too so I
need to change that. I also changed tenses, so my goal is to go fix the minor errors. There
aren’t really major errors to my essay just small ones that I made mistakes in. I also included
another short interview and I didn’t focus on her. I just mentioned it because I thought it would
help the topic and I remember Haslam saying that it was ok just as long as I focused mainly on
one interview which I did. I am mainly focusing on hanging my big paragraph into smaller ones
to separate my ideas and hopefully it will flow better, I will also be narrating it more and
hopefully I can get my facts in there.