Shelter Dogs About To Be Rescued In Australia Shot Dead To Keep Volunteers From Leaving Homes To Pick Them Up

Australia’s intense COVID-19 restrictions have led to the shooting deaths of several dogs who were about to be rescued by a shelter — because a rural council didn’t want volunteers to travel to pick up the dogs.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Bourke Shire Council in Australia’s New South Wales interpreted the country’s COVID-19 restrictions in the harshest terms possible, killing the dogs “to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week.” Australia is currently enforcing an extreme lockdown to combat the Delta variant. In Sydney, the country’s largest city, military personnel were called in to enforce lockdown measures.