According to the Helen Woodward Animal Center in San Diego County, the mayor of Hinckley, Utah, Donald Brown, believes it's efficient and cost-effective.
"We're still trying to wrap our heads around this," says Helen Woodward Animal Center (HWAC) spokesman John Van Zante. "How does an animal control facility call itself a, 'shelter' then take such inhumane actions to deal with orphaned pets?"
The community claims that some of the pets are not always dead when they are thrown into the pit.
Adoptions Manager LaBeth Thompson works with animal welfare groups across the country to help find families for pets.
"Never during my 28 years at Helen Woodward Animal Center have I heard of any animal welfare organization that uses such cruel and antiquated methods to deal with an animal entrusted to their care," Thompson said about the Utah shelter that shoots or runs-over pets as a means of euthanasia.
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Shooting through the head, though violent, is final and quick. I'd rather animals not be put down at all, but if you have to do it, make it fast.
But running them over? That is downright horrific.
How ironic- The animal could have been taken there because of neglect and animal cruelty by their owners and then they meet this fate.....
I couldn't believe this article, I had to check it out and it is true. I thought in this day and age know one would do that to an Animal in the animal shelter. Apparently in this State they do it, is so Babbaric!!it saves money? The people who work there how can they do it shooting an animal? Now my imagintion is working over time. Are they shooting at the dogs and other animals first before they finally shoot them? To Torture them? There are Lawa against Animal cruelty does this not apply to Utah? What do the Animal Shekter emplooyes think and feel? When they come home from work and their children ask Momy and or Daddy what did you do today? Well I shot a dog and it didn't die do I ran it over with a car to make sure it was really dead and I'll show you the blood on my tires! To let you know a job well done!!
I just wrote the above article so please excuse my spelling. I got wrapped up in this article and I didn't check my spelling and I didn't use spell checker My spelling is off on a few words but not my feelings about this .
PETA should step in and rescue all those animals!
Oh, wait...PETA will kill them too, as soon as they're inside the van. =-O
Running them over? Bullets aren't THAT expensive or hard to come by, yet. Give them another serving of food while you go to WalMart and buy some more. Better yet, if they're gonna go about it that way, I know it costs a bit more, but wouldn't it be about 1000% more humane to use a shot gun and make certain they're not alive when thrown out? So much is wrong here, too much fail to fix... I haz a sad.
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No but you know how these things go- You went to the mall do get your daily groceries and all the dogfood and gas for the truck and some cleaning-oil for the '45 and the old Winchester and you get distracted by that offer for that beautiful new Magnum. And then you get back at the shelter and you get out to shoot some more mongrels and cats and then- - - Ah rats- you discover you're out of bullets because you forgot to buy them while getting the cleaning stuff. And so--- Ah there's still the truck....
Yep- Complete lunacy...
I wonder what it is like to be in the mind of a person who regularly shoots and runs over orphaned animals...I am a little terrified
this makes me so ill. I wish I hadn't read the comments so that I could delude myself into believing that it's too shocking to be true. Really, it makes me sick to my stomach.
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