I’m talking about your loved and well cared for pet, not one who is mistreated or abandoned.
To my knowledge, no one bothered to test the dog for Ebola before killing him. So they don’t know whether he even had the disease. Killing without cause is wrong.
And for the record, I abhor shelters that euthanize animals only because they have too many. I support only not kill shelters. These only euthanize if the animal is terminally ill and suffering.
the dirty little secret in the shelter communmity is the no-kills simply’stop accepting animals when they are full. the shelters that put down b/c they have too many, are the ones those animals the no-kills reject, wind up going to, often because their charters do not allow them to reject animals becuase they’re full.
so the no-kills get to maintain this image but know the animals they turn down will go to a shelter that can’t refuse them based ‘on space, and they may wind up euthanizing some to make room for newer arrivals.
i know this firsthand. the no-kills let other places’do the dirtywork for them.