COURTESY OF DR. GOOD
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Good’s office, good Samaritans
also bring in a number of stray
animals each day.
Good, 58, specializes in helping
those stray animals. Not only does
he provide highly discounted veterinary services, he does his best to
ensure they find a new home. In an
area that — by his estimations —
euthanizes around 100,000 stray
cats and dogs each year, he tries to
save as many lives as he can.
About 14 years ago, Good volunteered to help out as a “de
facto medical director” at a rundown animal shelter in nearby
Fulton County. At the time, the
shelter was severely overcrowded,
and according to Good, resembled
a “Doggie Auschwitz.”
He remembers his first day —
the day when he had to euthanize
40 to 50 stray animals “just because they didn’t have a home.”
“I could see it in their eyes each
time,” Good says. “I kept thinking,
‘I’m really sorry I have to kill you
because you’re homeless.’”
Good says that he swore an
oath to find a better solution
that day. Since then, he’s started
the Homeless Pet Foundation in
hopes of utilizing word-of-mouth
and social networking to find
homes for stray animals — many
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of whom, he says, may have just
gotten loose from their homes.
“Let’s say you go on a three-day
business trip,” Good says. “A lot
of communities have a rule where
they can euthanize stray animals
after three days. If they don’t
have any records on file and your
dog isn’t wearing any kind of ID,
you may think everything’s fine,
but you get back and your dog has
been euthanized.”
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Above, Dr.
Good finishes
surgery at
his veterinary
practice.
Below,
members of
Good’s staff.