Killing Two Dogs with One Stone »
Now that's just wrong. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, in their infinite wisdom, keeps "evidence" - in other words, fighting dogs - at animal control. Now I'm the first to say that those dogs deserve as much a chance at life as the next one, so before you get going, let me finish.
These dogs must be kept until the end of the trial. The city gets the bill. And perfectly adoptable animals get put to death because these can't be euthanized because they are evidence. What's even worse is that, at the end of the trial, these fighting dogs are typically euthanized because they are considered unfit for adoption.
So dogs that are otherwise perfectly good, if in need of a little TLC (and who isn't), get the needle because of these others. Then these others often die too. Meanwhile, the government foots the bill for keeping these fighting dogs alive the whole time, keeping the shelter from handling more potentially adoptable dogs from the space.
And that just isn't right.
Comments (1)
They used to think that dogs trained for war were too dangerous to be given out as pets to the general population. They found that not to be true.
BTW, I think it would be a convenience for your visitors if you set up a "Remember me" tag on the comment field.
Posted by Ted on August 1, 2005 7:43 PM