NYC Animal Shelter Under Fire, again

New York has a lot of people. This stands to reason they would have a lot of dogs. This unfortunate circumstance leads to many, many stray animals picked up by animal control. Add the number of owner giveups and the numbers can be staggering. This happens in every town in every county in every state in the United States.

The dogs are then assessed and it is decided if they are adoptable or not. If they are deemed unadoptable, for whatever reason, they are euthanized. Many of the reasons cited for euthanasia are issues which are clearly fixable, but the counties find it easier just to kill them. The bully breeds suffer more than most because of the popularity of the breed they come in these facilities in large numbers.

When someone in NYC found out the number of animals killed simply for a resource guarding issue or some other minor thing which is very correctable, they began a group called "Bruised, not Broken." They pull animals when possible and feature adoptables which are on the list to be killed.

Check out this story and like their Facebook page. It is a good group who are doing all they can to help save animals in the NYC area. I am glad many of the groups around here do the same thing.