I could just cry. I am simply stunned that this could happen and that shooting a dog is legal. Surely the outrage from this will help change the laws. The following sentence from the article sums it up. Why oh why, didn't these men just give the dogs up.

The breeders could have turned the dogs over to rescue groups, said Howard Nelson, chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

"Every humane society in the state would have taken those dogs," Nelson said.

Sadly, they are in a better place now then where they were, but they could have found loving homes if they had just been released to rescue.