{"id":675871,"date":"2021-08-23T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=675871"},"modified":"2021-08-23T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:36:27","slug":"shelter-dogs-about-to-be-rescued-in-australia-shot-dead-to-keep-volunteers-from-leaving-homes-to-pick-them-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shelter-dogs-about-to-be-rescued-in-australia-shot-dead-to-keep-volunteers-from-leaving-homes-to-pick-them-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter Dogs About To Be Rescued In Australia Shot Dead To Keep Volunteers From Leaving Homes To Pick Them Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshelter-dogs-about-to-be-rescued-in-australia-shot-dead-to-keep-volunteers-from-leaving-homes-to-pick-them-up-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=675871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-531610325.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Australia\u2019s intense COVID-19 restrictions has led to the shooting deaths of several dogs who were about to be rescued by a shelter \u2013 because a rural council didn\u2019t want volunteers to travel to pick up the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Morning Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/rescue-dogs-shot-dead-by-nsw-council-due-to-covid-19-restrictions-20210821-p58ksh.html?__twitter_impression=true\">reported<\/a> that the Bourke Shire Council in Australia\u2019s New South Wales interpreted the country\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions in the harshest terms possible, killing the dogs \u201cto prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week.\u201d Australia is currently enforcing an extreme lockdown to combat the Delta variant. In Sydney, the country\u2019s largest city, military personnel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dangerous-precedent-military-to-enforce-lockdowns-in-australias-largest-city\">were called in<\/a> to enforce lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents there will be forced to wear masks outdoors and to stay within five km (three miles) of their homes. With even tighter restrictions set to begin on Friday, New South Wales Police said it had asked for 300 military personnel to help enforce lockdown orders,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-pm-says-vaccinations-alone-will-not-end-sydneys-covid-19-lockdown-2021-07-28\/\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported in late July.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, hundreds were arrested and fined in Sydney and Melbourne during nationwide protests against the draconian lockdown orders, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hundreds-arrested-fined-in-australia-amid-nationwide-protests-against-lockdowns\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bourke Shire Council\u2019s watchdog, the Office of Local Government (OLG) reported the discovery of the killed dogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission,\u201d a spokesman for OLG told the Herald. The spokesman also told the outlet that the OLG was looking into whether certain animal protection laws had been broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;<em>Herald<\/em>&nbsp;attempted to contact the council administration multiple times, but received no response, and a member of Rural Outback Respite\/Rescue \u2013 the shelter that was supposed to receive the dogs \u2013 declined to comment,\u201d the Herald reported. \u201cA source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers were distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the Council made the determination to follow strict lockdown orders even though the city of Cobar has seen \u201cno recent locally acquired COVID-19 case,\u201d according to the Herald. Fragments of the coronavirus have been found in the sewage system, however.<\/p>\n<p>OLG Minister Shelley Hancock did not provide a comment to the Herald. The outlet reported she has faced questions in Australia\u2019s Parliament regarding other shootings of animals in council-owned pounds. Hancock did say in March that she was unaware of animals being shot as euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a practice, I would be concerned about it \u2014 if it was a cat or a dog,\u201d Hancock said.<\/p>\n<p>During that same meeting, Hancock said that councils weren\u2019t required to say how they killed animals.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has led to severe criticism from animal welfare activists, including Animal Liberation\u2019s regional campaign manager Lisa Ryan, who called for an investigation into the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting and we totally reject council\u2019s unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently undertaken as part of a COVID- safe plan,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s intense COVID-19 restrictions has led to the shooting deaths of several dogs who were about to be rescued by a shelter \u2013 because a rural council didn\u2019t want volunteers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}