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Hello emma...in future please do put a warning tag on items that contain graphic of disturbing images. Being dog lovers we can sometimes be very disturbed by such images if we do not have time to mentally prepare ourselves for them. This way we can choose to click the link with some knowledge beforehand. Thank you for posting.

Hard to watch but very very good -- it's what keeps a lot of us going.  In honesty, the thing is most people lack a conscience.  This affects those of us who love dogs dearly -- but those it should be viewed by never see it and honestly they would likely be unaffected if they did. 
 
Because, as the one quote implies -- people's hearts get dark when they don't care and when they become abusers or just don't care enough to DO anything.  But what people don't realize when they are so caught up in *themselves* is that when you let yourself be hardened to the sick, the hungry, the dying - wether human or animal - you make your own life a little bit harder and a little bit worse. 
 
Because you can't accept and benefit from love and caring unless you know how to give it. 
 
You can't legislate that.  Unfortunately we Americans are so bent on getting everything cheaper and not paying more for any 'thing' (including our taxes) and not even giving our own full effort at our jobs (why do more when you can get away with less) -- that whole mindset leads to such selfishness as causes this.  We always want to 'get' something for doing something nice or for doing anything at all. 
 
If we could all learn to just give, and love and help freely -- one by one -- we could change things on a grand scale.  If each one of us could just purpose in our own heart to do one nice thing a day -- something unnoticed, something not 'rewarded' or lauded -- but just one small nice thing every day ... our hearts would be stronger and change would happen.  Because the change would happen in each heart. 
 
Many years ago my life was changed by a wheelbarrow full of dead euthanized puppies at my local animal control. 
 
 

Because you can't accept and benefit from love and caring unless you know how to give it.

 
Extremely simple and completely true. And the hardest thing for people to accept or grasp.
 
And I agree. The dog fighters and the irresponsible breeders won't see this slideshow because they don't care enough about animals to research that far. They're too busy setting up the next dog fight or find the next stud to use when the bitch is going in heat again. Or, it's more important for them to buy a couple of bags of pot than it is to spay/neuter their pet.
 
The great care and attention that we here give our pets and the study of all things pertaining is not shared by the people that create these injustices and tragic circumstances.
 
It's sad to know that I can go to the shelter anytime and they will have dogs and cats available. That sentence, alone, speaks volumes. In a perfect world, the shelter would be temporary home until the owner, who now realizes the pet is missing comes to reclaim. A temporary shelter because the owner passed away. More often, it is death row. When I was at the shelter on Friday, one of the ACOs was taking dog from the kennels toward the other side of the main building, on a leash. Was he getting a walk or was this his last walk? I don't know. I do know they have a 7 day schedule. Once the animal is determined to be available for adoption, they get 7 days. (Limited time, space, resources). One good thing is that the kennels weren't too full. 11-11-06, they had dog walk through downtown Sherman and all the dogs and all but a few cats were adopted out that day. So, I think they may bend the schedule just a little bit, especially if they think a dog has a good chance.