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God dammit guys.
Is not murdering dogs that difficult?
In Austria and most of Europe you can't euthanise pets without a good reason (e.g. terminal illness, serious injury), was your legislation drafted by Christie Noem?
Its a simple logistics issue. The sheer number of abandoned pets makes keeping them all alive a financial and spatial impossibility. Each shelter is a microcosm basicly on its own within a set region. Some regions are high birthrate zones for strays, as well as hotbeds for abuse. In s perfect world these problems would not exist and every animal would have a caring home. Sadly our world anything but perfect
It's the crime of living in a capitalistic society. The only thing that anyone recognizes is money. And stray animals being kept alive costs money. And space to store them costs money. And people to volunteer costs money.
Without money, the institutions collapse and it's seen as acceptable to purge anything that was causing the system to lose money.
Empathy, like SS Musk says, is a "weakness" that capitalism has been purging from the system for centuries.
Yeah it is not the fault of the people working in animal shelters and in rescue. If there's place for a hundred dogs but two hundred need places, what are you gonna do?? Kill those with most health issues, then those with serious behavioral issues, then the ones that are least likely get homes, and hope you get enough space so you don't have to keep killing. It's fucked up but it's the reality of scarce resources