Black Orchid wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:53 pmOutrage was sparked after an Australian town council shot dead several rescue dogs in order to prevent volunteers from breaking quarantine to pick them up last week in the city of Cobar, NSW, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, citing the Office of Local Government.
"OLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission," said a spokesman for the government agency.
According to the report, the shelter volunteers had Covid-safe measures prepared to handle the dogs - one of which was a new mother.
"We are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting and we totally reject the council’s unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently undertaken as part of a COVID- safe plan," Animal Liberation regional campaign manager Lisa Ryan told the Herald.
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Shooting rescue dogs? Deplorable behaviour! Absolutely abominable!
Yes - I saw that story on another forum.
I am hoping that it's not true.
It's illegal to discharge a firearm in a built up area -
anyone who did that could go to jail -
least of all on animal cruelty charges.