One Nation Under Dog

[LoveTrains]

Someone recommended this documentary a while ago. It is on HBO.

I know I was warned about the dog euthanasia scene, but I just ugly cried for like 10 minutes over it. :-( :-( :-(

[benitabutrell]

I work with one of the groups featured in there and I beg everyone to watch that. It's so difficult but people need to know what goes on with these dogs that no one wants.

[benitabutrell]

It's on On-Demand and even on YouTube for those without HBO. PM me for a link.

[LoveTrains]

Yeah I had no idea about the process of how the dogs are put down - it was horrifying.

For some reason I think we don't do that as much up in my region? But I could be completely wrong about that. I have it in my head that people are better about spaying/neutering up here and letting their dogs run loose.

[315bride]

I could not watch that. I can't, I just can't.

[mskitkat]

Not watching no way can't make me.

All of our pets have been strays/rescues/shelter critters. I deliberately chose our most recent cat as being an older black cat that had been at the shelter for years. Turns out she had been there so long because she needed $7k in various surgeries, but oh well. My million dollar kitty.

[benitabutrell]

LoveTrains - being from New England also makes it a different place too. Some towns in MA have waiting lists for dogs at shelters and that's part of what my group does - takes them from southern states and brings them north where there are typically more home available.

MA just yesterday passed a law banning inhumane methods of euthanization, such as the gassing box seen in the film. I hope that all states follow suit. A lethal injection in their veins is in fact cheaper than gassing and another terrible form of euthanasia used called "heart sticks" - I'll let you guess how that is done. It's so terrible and homeless animals is such an epidemic that can be solved with tighter regulations around spaying/neutering and registering animals.

I also foster dogs, so if anyone has questions about that, feel free to ask me.

[aerowife2010]

One of the resuces I follow up in RI was featured on it. I watched the trailer on their website and it broke my heart.

[Mrs.Beagle]

Nope, no way, never watching it. I'd ugly cry and then adopt every animal at the SPCA and then H would divorce me.

Now I'm thinking about how MIL's cats might have been put down and I'm trying not to ugly cry.

[yellowbrkrd]

Yeah, there is no way I could watch this. I cry at the sight of a dog's face behind a cage.

[mrs.spunky]

Aug 6, 2012 18:05:01 GMT -5 Mrs.Beagle said:

Nope, no way, never watching it. I'd ugly cry and then adopt every animal at the SPCA and then H would divorce me.

you and me both! DH watched it and has (basically) forbidden me from watching it.

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Aug 6, 2012 18:44:01 GMT -5 yellowbrkrd said:

Yeah, there is no way I could watch this. I cry at the sight of a dog's face behind a cage.

I can't even watch the commercials I change the channel.

[Deleted]

It was tough one to watch but I thought the film was well done and I had to skip past the part of them being put down. I know what goes on, but to see and it and hear it was not something I can handle. Someone on here posted details of that part of the film and even reading it I lost it.

[insominac]

I have no desire to watch this. I even had no desire to read this thread. lol