Maria~ Many of us on this list have been rescuing and rehabbing animals as long as you have. I am a licensed technician, and am in the trenches every day of animal rescue, suffering, welfare, etc. If you honestly believe that the very underpaid animal control officers know how to euthanize an animal HUMANELY, you have another thing coming.
I suggest you volunteer for 2 weeks at your local humane society before you go lecturing us on how to humanely deal with stray/possibly vicious dogs that may KILL our own animals. I have been on the 3am horse calls where stray dogs have mauled a horse or baby, I have been on the animal CONTROL calls where even in an urban area you CAN'T FIND THE DOG. It's much nicer to the stray to kill it quickly before it's too late. Is that kind? I suppose that stray may have been through utter HELL and doesn't know how to act and is suffering. I agree with your assessment...a human-created problem....but before WE have to pay for someone else's neglect or irresponsibility...put the animal out of it's misery. Quickly. So it won't suffer any longer. Possibly face starvation, get hit by a car, kicked by a horse to go die somewhere SLOWLY from it's injuries, or eaten by coyotes...which is KINDER? Mary Dudley, LVT "Just Dream It" Fandango Ranch
