When owners of seized or lost dogs can’t afford to get their pets back, they relinquish their rights to the animal, which can result in a pet being euthanized. Meanwhile, a CNN Money analysis of active warrants from a sampling of 15 cities and counties across the country found thousands of outstanding warrants for small pet-related offenses.
Outraged pet owners and animal rights attorneys say these harsh tactics are all about generating money and unfairly impact low-income Americans.
This dog, named Chunk, was murdered by the government in 2013.
Family dog kidnapped from a woman’s yard and held for ransom, then murdered by government thugs
As CNN Money reports, a California resident named Elizabeth Vasquez says two dogs were kidnapped from her back yard by animal control “officers.”
They fined her $500, and when she could only come up with half the cash, they murdered one of the two dogs.
“[A]nimal control killed Silver before she could scrape together enough cash to get the dog out, says Vasquez, who speaks only Spanish,” reports CNN.
It also turns out that the animal control mafia targets low-income neighborhoods where people often simply can’t
