Thanks to cinder and smoke for your thoughts of what you would have done, which I would have had no problem with any of those approaches.But these people never even bothered to call the human society,let alone the fire dept or anyone else.Neighbors tried to help and were refused.All they would have had to done is call the human society.They said on TV that they would have gone and taken the dogs,but were never called,so therefore knew nothing about it till it was to late. Even though they said the dogs appeared to be vicious,none of the onlooking neighbors saw any sign of this.I realize what you are saying and you are right,but passing the buck in my opinion does not make it ok.They basically just turned their back on these dogs.All they seemed to be able to say was its not our problem.Just as you mentioned,there are a lot of ways the death of Bonnie and Max could have been avoided,and that is what I am so upset about.There was no reason whatsoever for these dogs to have had to die.As this is my hometown I know that there were many non officials who tried and wanted to help with the owners consent,and the officials would not let them.Now they could not have been held responsible in any way if a neighbor had taken the dogs with the owners permission.But they still WOULD NOT LET THEM.The Human Society said they would have taken full responsibility,but they did't bother to call them.I don't feel this had anything to do with what they were or weren't allowed to do.When you don't even bother to make a five minute phone call to the Human society,you just plain don't care.If they had been more caring like you and everyone else on here,somehow,someway Bonnie and Max would still be alive today.
I want to thank everyone on here for the overwhelming response to this topic.At least I know I am not alone in how I feel about this and I appreciate all of you for your thoughts and opinions...Sandy