...it's honestly for the best that these animals get euthanized because, holy shit, if this is the way they're treated at the shelter then they are absolutely better off.
I wish I could disagree with you.
Unfortunately, you make a very valid point. It's a horrible waste of life -- innocent lives, at that, because no one could ever say that these animals contracted ringworm on their own.
Reading the article you linked to, with the statement of “This is such an extraordinary strain of ringworm that we can’t say that even following those protocols would have prevented this altogether,” it makes me practically froth at the mouth because obviously, implicit is that these protocols were obviously not being followed. It's the sheer negligence of the workers that led to the widespread disease, and leaving all those animals untreated for months is in and of itself puke-worthy behaviour.
I'm so fucking sorry. I feel the need to apologise to these animals on behalf of my species. And worse yet is the fact that animal-rights activists are most likely going to fume at the mouth, but not one of them would devote their own time and/or money to treating the ringworm for a single one of those animals, nevermind three hundred and fifty of them. Costly and time-consuming is not something that humans are great fans of, especially when we have no personal benefit.
So, I apologise on behalf of my species. I only hope that eventually I can be forgiven.
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Date: 2010-05-12 04:19 am (UTC)I wish I could disagree with you.
Unfortunately, you make a very valid point. It's a horrible waste of life -- innocent lives, at that, because no one could ever say that these animals contracted ringworm on their own.
Reading the article you linked to, with the statement of “This is such an extraordinary strain of ringworm that we can’t say that even following those protocols would have prevented this altogether,” it makes me practically froth at the mouth because obviously, implicit is that these protocols were obviously not being followed. It's the sheer negligence of the workers that led to the widespread disease, and leaving all those animals untreated for months is in and of itself puke-worthy behaviour.
I'm so fucking sorry. I feel the need to apologise to these animals on behalf of my species. And worse yet is the fact that animal-rights activists are most likely going to fume at the mouth, but not one of them would devote their own time and/or money to treating the ringworm for a single one of those animals, nevermind three hundred and fifty of them. Costly and time-consuming is not something that humans are great fans of, especially when we have no personal benefit.
So, I apologise on behalf of my species. I only hope that eventually I can be forgiven.