As Kat McKinley said, “Australia lost its mind over Covid, now it’s lost its soul.”
The Bourke Shire Council, located in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia, voted to murder the dogs instead of allowing people to rescue them:
Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week, according to council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government.“OLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission,” a spokesman from the government agency said.The spokesman said the agency was examining the circumstances of the incident to find out whether companion animal and cruelty prevention laws had been broken.
They didn’t even do it humanely! Couldn’t they have euthanized them? Couldn’t they have done it peacefully? Did they have to go Old Yeller on the dogs?!
Cobar is located in central-western New South Wales. It is about 167 miles from the Bourke Shire Council, which is three hours by car.
A person told The Sydney Morning Herald the deaths have “distressed” the shelter volunteers because they “had COVID-19-safe measures in place to handle the dogs.”
One dog became a new mother.
Australia has gone insane over COVID, shutting down the country with minimal cases, deaths, and hospitalizations.
Cobar hasn’t even seen new cases recently. Oh, they found the virus in the sewage system! MUST SLAUGHTER THE DOGS.
To the surprise of no one, the council has not answered The Sydney Morning Herald. Animals rights activists are livid:
The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds, did not comment. However, animal liberation campaigner Lisa Ryan called for an urgent investigation.“We are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting and we totally reject council’s unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently undertaken as part of a COVID- safe plan,” Ms Ryan, Animal Liberation’s regional campaign manager, said.
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