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Why are they ABDUCTING these dogs to take them to the No-Kill Shelter?

posted 13 years ago by saramacg09
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I have a hard time believing that if these kids offered up the option of the No-Kill Shelter, the Animal Control workers wouldn't go for it. It bugs me that they are portraying dog-catchers as animal haters who just love murdering dogs... if that were true, then there are bigger problems because killing animals is the sign of a serial killer. I used to work/volunteer in a pound and I have to say that most of the workers were really sad when they had to put a dog down.... euthanizing dogs sucks and I don't know one Animal Control worker that would deny moving a dog to a No-Kill Shelter because they just WANT to kill the dogs....

[–] ss5mmyers 13 years ago

1) It's a kids movie and adults in authority are always the antagonists in kids movies.
2) Kids can't run an animal shelter.
3) The dogs could be dangerous, very few strays are pretty dogs that do fantastic tricks. Animal control has an obligation to protect the public from dangerous animals after all.

[–] saramacg09 11 years ago

1) It's a kids movie and adults in authority are always the antagonists in kids movies.

True.

2) Kids can't run an animal shelter.

I never suggested they run the shelter. They were taking the animals to a No-Kill Shelter... that no-kill shelter is presumably run by qualified adults.

3) The dogs could be dangerous, very few strays are pretty dogs that do fantastic tricks. Animal control has an obligation to protect the public from dangerous animals after all.

Sure they could be, but you don't just shoot a dog because it could be dangerous. Take it to the no-kill shelter (where it would also be off the streets protecting the public from any potential dangers), feel it out, and if it is a dangerous dog, they will deal with it accordingly.

By point is, the kids should have just told the Animals Control workers they wanted to transport the dogs to a no-kill shelter in the next town over... that would literally make everyone happy and they wouldn't have had to deal with the whole production of making the dogs chase their van.

[–] Sam-953-169285 8 years ago

How many no-kill shelters take animals in directly? The no-kill shelter that is local to us don't; animals must go to the shelter first and then the no-kill shelter selects from the ones that don't get adopted that way. That is my understanding at least.