But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat
animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the
fate of an
abandoned stray.
Sadly,
animals do not get into crisis only where it is convenient and, essentially, an unwanted
animal on one side
of a street may enter a shelter, while across the road, outside
of city limits, the dog's
fate is luck
of the draw; many are
abandoned to starve.