Champagne and Grimm Need Help

Champagne

Champagne and Grim have lost their family due to tragic circumstances. Mother and son – she’s nine, he’s one – their person is apparently in failing health, and they have been left at the Roanoke, Virginia pound, otherwise known as RCACP.

Grim

I don’t know why a family member couldn’t have stepped forward to help in this time of need. I only know that the tragedy has been furthered by the fact that they are in danger of being euthanized at the Roanoke facility because it is not a shelter, a haven of safety for pets in need of rehoming. It is a very short-term holding facility for dogs and cats who have been given up by their people. And in the state of Virginia, when an owner signs their pet over to a city or county pound, they can be taken directly to the euthanasia room and injected with poison. Then put into an incinerator, if they are at the Roanoke Regional facility, their existence vaporized as if they were never here at all. Or in Franklin County, for example, put into a black bag and taken to the landfill.

Healthy, vibrant pets who thought they were going for a car ride, who had no idea what was going to happen to them.

This is wrong. We live in a country capable of not allowing such a horrifying end for these pets who have loved their people.

Champagne and Grim huddle together in their kennel at the Roanoke pound. They are scared. They sense that bad things happen in this place. And they are right.