At around the same time as Ohio pardoned Pit Bulls, Memphis didn't seem to hear.
"ABC24 news released a secret recording on Wednesday that was made at the Memphis Animal Shelter in November. On the recording, a high-ranking female city official can clearly be heard to be ordering the mass euthanization of animals.
“I want you to euthanize every pit bull or dog that looks like a pit bull, whose time is up,” the female voice is heard saying, which is followed by the sound of another shelter worker saying ”Uh oh.”
In a shelter that takes in 350-500 animals a week, in a community where the greatest majority of them are pit bulls, that’s no small order. Records show that almost 270 pit bulls were killed at the shelter in November. Of them, 244 were listed as having been killed for space. This is not the first time that Memphis Animal Shelter has come under fire. This is just the latest chapter in a long and perilous story for the animals there."
Read more here, including their poor track record with animal care and services, and also articles on Ohio and about a blind dog given her sight back :)
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