>Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week,
>A source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers are distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.
>According to NSW Health, there have been no recent locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Cobar,
So, it was too dangerous to travel in an area with no covid cases and bring dogs to a shelter with full covid protocols and the only alternative was to shoot the dogs?
This is just getting excessive, there's being safe and then there's I don't even know what you call that. There definitely had to be a better way to deal with that situation.
>The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds,
Although, sounds like the council has had issues with shooting animals in pounds before.
>A source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers are distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.
>According to NSW Health, there have been no recent locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Cobar,
So, it was too dangerous to travel in an area with no covid cases and bring dogs to a shelter with full covid protocols and the only alternative was to shoot the dogs?
This is just getting excessive, there's being safe and then there's I don't even know what you call that. There definitely had to be a better way to deal with that situation.
>The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds,
Although, sounds like the council has had issues with shooting animals in pounds before.