dogs awaiting imminent adoption have been shot to death by an Australian council, who blamed the barbaric bloodbath on Covid restrictions.The pooches – including one who had just given birth - were slaughtered to stop volunteers travelling across the country to pick them up.Bourke Shire Council told a local watchdog it was “to protect its employees and community from the risk of Covid transmission.”But horrified animal activists have slammed the brutal executions as “unacceptable," reports the Sydney Morning Herald.An Animal Liberation campaign manager, Lisa Ryan, raged: “We are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting.“We totally reject council's unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently.
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