Originally posted by K9soul



I have issue with that "middle-aged" shepherd example. Dogs like that CAN be rehabilitated with lots of time and love. I also found a post on a vegan board by a non-anonymous person that while he agrees with a lot of PETA's crusades, he worked at PETA for six months and saw (what he perceived to be) healthy animals being euthanized.


Are there unnecessary euthanizations, when more could be done to prevent it? I believe so. I believe PETA would opt for the needle rather than put an animal through what they would consider a traumatic, drawn out rehabilitation.
I also have a problem with the fact that dogs with behavior
issues can't be helped individually. Dogs who have been starved
beaten or ignored & neglected all their lives cannot be turned into
model adoptable dogs overnight, if ever. The sheer number of
dogs without homes is far too great to even attempt rehabitation.

I hate it when I watch a show on Animal Planet by SPCA in some
city & they bring in a dog that is 20+ lbs. underweight(starved)
and put him to a test with a food bowl.Most dogs are set up to fail
the "food aggression" test. It could be a perfect dog in every other respect, but if it doesn't let someone mess with his food,
he's cut from the list of adoptable dogs. That's so wrong.