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Shelter Dogs is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Cynthia Wade released in USA on 7 march 2003
Shelter Dogs (2003)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 march 2003
Length 1h14
Directed by Cynthia Wade
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Documentary films about animal rights, Documentary films about law, Political films, Documentary films about nature
Rating81%
Shelter Dogs is a 2003 documentary film directed and produced by Cynthia Wade about animal welfare in the United States and the ethics of animal euthanasia. Following a particular New York animal shelter and its staff over a three-year time span, Wade gives her audience a complex, honest look at the situations that arise when it comes to homeless animals and some of the difficult, controversial decisions that must be made within them
Synopsis
Thousands and thousands of stray and unwanted dogs are born into the world everyday. When these animals have nowhere to go and no one to care for them, it becomes a situation that society needs to make a decision about. Animal shelters have become one solution for the issue of these homeless animals, but then the question becomes, what do we do with them then? This question is controversial, in that not all of them can be adopted. As a result many animals are euthanized, a fate extremely controversial in itself.Comments
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