Has anyone else seen the disturbing videos of Katrina dogs left behind being shot by sheriffs deputies?

I feel outraged! If they're still alive, don't kill them. Lawinforcers protect animal rights, and now they are target dummies! That's just wrong!!!!!! That sickens me!!!! These are innocent pets that people pay hundreds of dollars to care for them! These are family members. How would they like it if their brother or sister or mom was shot by police for target practice! They should be punished to the highest degree!!!!! I may be over reacting, but this is a topic to over react about. It's plain stupid!!! Think of how dissapointed people will be when they return home and find out that their pet was shot. Ok I'm done. Hope that that's voicing an opinion!

It's horrible, but I don't know what can be done. I live in Houston. After the storm, this city ( as I'm sure you know) accepted thousands of pets .... dogs, cats, pigs, horses, goats, etc...). The facilities here were ( and still are !!!) bursting at the seams, and nearby smaller cities couldn't step up because Hurricane Rita paid them a visit. Many Houstonians became foster parents ( I have two cats) . As a member of an animal rights' group, what do you suggest should happen?? I most certainly am not advocating shooting animals of any kind.... but who can take them and love them when we are already stretched thin ????

This is an outrage! Police should be setting an example for the people in this disaster, NOT SHOOTING DOGS! And as target practice.....that makes me want to go out there and show them a thing or two. Sadly, I don't think there is much we can do with all that is still going on down there....I'm sure the dogs are one of the least worries that they have. Such a tragedy.

These dogs were starving, and many of them had been feeding on human corpses. Many had caught serious illnesses from the flood water. In many cases shooting them was th only humane thing to do.

Perhaps not in all cases, and maybe the deputies were making jokes, but did you consider that perhaps they make jokes as a defense mechanism. How would you have felt if your only options were leaving hundreds of dogs to die of starvation and illness or shooting them?

It was a horrible situation but let us not forget that humans were starving as well. They didn't have food, shelter, and healthcare for humans, there were almost no services available for pets.

The problem is not the action of these few deputies but the fact that there was no evacuation plan -for humans or pets. And that many people who COULD evacuate themselves did not do so in time, nevermind the ones that had no ability to leave their homes. Also there were offers of aid, for example trains, that were turned away.

I have I am from New Orleans so i deal with seeing them videos all of the time. Plus having to see the stray animals walking around is sad! And for the police shooting them for targets that's just wrong! Someone needs to do something now!

You have to admit two things... 1. The guitar riffs and rhythm and vocals of that song were top notch...and that's why it's a classic (I remember when it first came out) 2. The "singer/narrator's" defense that "he DID shoot the sheriff," but he DIDN'T shoot the deputy, was probably not the "best defense" possible under the circumstances... But there was no "Dream Team" back in the Old West, and so... We got "confessions" like that...which still makes a man wonder about his own intelligence and "Place In The Ultimate Scheme of Things..." "Draw!"

Each animal is an entity with it's own set of circumstances. To lump all of those stray dogs in one package simply doesn't work. Many of those dogs have to be disposed of, there simply is no other choice. The problem arises because it is so difficult to determine which ones that would be.

And so that there is no mistake, we assisted in the re homing of more Katrina dogs than you can believe.

So as always with this type of post I challenge all of you to put your money where your mouth is. (and that doesn't mean PETA or some other bunch of wackos)

http://www.bestfriends.org/

Right now they have several animals rescued from the Lebanon war zone that need caring homes.

I think it was done in a cruel, tasteless manor. But it was a last option. These animals were starving and dying from disease. It was better to destroy them than leave them. And they were destroyed quickly rather than slowly. What other choice was there? If there were any way to rescue these animals that would have been better. But a fast death was better than slow starvation. In a perfect world they all would have been rescued. But humans took the priority in rescue procedures. There were people dying who couldn't be rescued. Choices had to be made.

I would be devastated. I have people that went down. A good friend of mine left her family her dogs her rescue dogs and went to put her services to work. She came home torn apart from all the things she could not fix. To know people were down there to help and they were doing this would be outrageous.

However; never believe what you hear and only half of what you see.

I have on youtube but I can't find it again. I work for the animal shelter and I was looking up cats that need rescue and stumbled across that video. It's to bad I wish they wouldn't kill the cute dogs.