The Mexican Connection - The Tijuana "Pound"

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ~ Mahatma Gandhi

View photo gallery of the dogs from the Tijuana Pound...

The Tijuana, Mexico Pound is a dog pound on the border of California and Mexico. No-one goes to the Tijuana dog pound, except a few rescuers from California, particularly, Laura Sandoval with Animal Advocates.

The Tijuana City dog catcher (and most cities in Mexico) go out during a 'Round Up", and trap and catch dogs usually using catch poles around their necks drag them into trucks and into the cells where they are never fed, never given water or a blanket, and suffering hugely in the heat or cold on dirty cement floors.

Laura goes to this pound periodically and pulls the most highly adoptable dogs, however, only a few are allowed to cross the border at one time so most are left behind. With the help of donations, to keep the dogs from dying a horrible death by electrocution, it only costs $1 a dog to humanely euthanize by an exerienced technician. The problem is, there are about 5,000 dogs every 3 or 4 months! Mexico is a very poor country, and unfortunately, does not promote Spay & Neuter, hence there is a gigantic pet overpopulation that most people never see. (Pet overpopulation is out of control in most all countries, and is a huge problem even in wealthy countries such as Canada and the U.S., usually due to Puppy Mills, backyard dog breeders, front yard dog breeders! (the so-called good ones), the huge pet stores that sell puppies such as PetLand. Canadians and Americans who visit Mexico are usually there on a beautiful holiday on the coast, and only get glimpses of the poverty. It is worse than most people could ever imagine.

There are thousands of purebreds in the pounds, due to Mexican breeder breeding for profit, same as North American, and buyers who don't get their pets spayed or neutered. The mixed breeds are even more darling... so precious, sweet, and begging you to take them away from the hell-hole they are forced to live in.

Dogs, as you can also imagine, are left on their own to struggle to survive, which is a miserble life for the most part. Both Laura Sandoval with Animal Advocartes in California, and Rory O'Neill with Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue, work together to save as many dogs as possible. Your donation, in any amount you can contribute, directly saves lives.

With a good bath, deworming medication, sometimes medication for mange, and some basic food, these dogs, like homeless dogs everywhere in the world, all are beautiful inside and out. All they need to do is receive yours and my help to get them out, and they will make you a very wonderful pet companion.

Here are photos of dogs in the Tijuana, Mexico, Dog Pound awaiting either a humane injection while thinking they are being loved and saved, or a terrifying and painful death by water being hosed on them, clamps applied to head and back, and electrocuted with car battery jump-start battery cables, or even worse, clamps over the mouth and an insert in their anus like they do to fur farm animals, and electrocuted with a current that isn't very strong and takes many seconds if not minutes to kill just one loving dog that could have made a wonderful. Humans are the cruelest animals on this planet, they are also the most generous. Hopefully you will be generous in whatever way you can, with volunteering your services, donate funding to save more dogs, for medication, for transportion to Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue's sanctuary and rehab center (in the beginning stages of funding) where they can be adopted to loving homes.