I think the military has always had this type of attitude. My dad was an Air Force officer for 20 years. Most of the time we lived in private homes, but once we lived on base. If your pet was picked up by the AP's you had twenty four hours to claim them. If they were ever picked up again, they were destroyed. I'm sure this is something that varies from base to base, and probably branch to branch. And this was almost 40 years ago.