Listen, elf, I’m making these ‘assumptions’ based on my knowledge of how animal control organizations work, and my own 6+ years volunteering at shelters. Generally, if an animal is in the care of animal control, they are there for the reasons which I have stated. Shelter animals, on the other hand, are usually released by their owners. If an animal is deemed adoptable once in the care of animal control, they will relinquish the animal to a shelter. My experience is in the state of Pennsylvania, so YYMV, but I am speaking from experience here. So wait a bit before you start crying bullshit, hmm?
About those crazed weeks-old puppies…I am again speaking from experience here. Any puppy that is only ‘weeks-old’ which has been relinquished to a shelter OR picked up by animal control (because even though they seem similar, they’re actually different organizations with different functions and responsibilities) will almost always have problems adjusting to a pet home later in life. Again, I speak from experience. This is because puppies must have a stable environment in early life to mature into calm and well-socialized adults. Yes, YMMV, but generally this is true. No, I will not give you any cites, because this is patently fucking obvious to anyone with any experience around dogs. A dog raised in a shelter or at animal control is stressed, isolated, and generally not very well-socialized. All this equals problems adopting. This is not all dogs, and it generally does not apply to adult dogs, nor older puppies, say 12 weeks or older.
You seem to think it’s so very wrong that someone would feed a puppy to a snake. It must be cruel and evil, right? Should the snake not be fed, because you don’t like snakes? You argued for euthanizing the snake- why? Again, because you don’t like snakes, and obviously, if you don’t like them, then no one else should. It’s heartless and cruel, you wail. Bad, evil snakes eating cute widdle puppies. Do you eat meat? Because if you do, you’d better shut your fucking mouth right now, because the meat on your table died a far worse death in far worse circumstances than those puppies did. And just like that juicy burger, you do realize these dogs were doomed, don’t you? Animal control and shelters do their best to get animals adopted, but they’re not stupid- they learn very quickly which animals make good candidates and which don’t. They obviously decided, for their own reasons, that these puppies were not adoptable. Otherwise, why were they still at animal control instead of at a shelter?
You seem to have no problem with the fact that literally millions of unwanted animals are killed every year, in ways which you yourself have admitted to finding distasteful. But bring a snake into the picture and suddenly someone has committed a crime against humanity. Where is your fucking head? Do not realize that even if these puppies had been adopted, still more puppies would have to die? There are too many puppies to meet demand, and no matter how many you adopt out, more are always going to die, until society as a whole agrees to be more responsible. You accept this, and instead you quibble over the manner of death.
You get all self-righteous over this woman, abusing her position and committing vile acts. Well good for you. I’m glad you have the luxury of feeling so innocent in this matter. Why don’t you go over to your local shelter and demand to adopt all the cute little animals they have slated for death? Maybe then you’ll see what ‘unadoptable’ actually means, because I guaranatee you, you won’t want these animals, either. Go make a round with animal control and see what happens to puppies for whom there are no homes. Come to my house sometime, and take a look at dogs I work with that were raised in shelters, and have no social skills, whose owners are ready to give up and take them back to the shelter they came from. Get your fucking head out of the clouds and realize they can’t all be saved, and death by snake is far kinder than what’s in store for tousands of puppies every day.
