local government in rural Australia fatally shot dogs that were set to go to an animal shelter in another town over concerns that the shelter’s employees could spread the coronavirus by traveling to pick up the animals.
The Bourke Shire Council, a local government in the remote northwestern part of the state of New South Wales, killed the dogs “to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations,” from the coronavirus, according to a statement from the New South Wales Office of Local Government, which oversees the council and other local governments.
Australia: Now the laughingstock of the world.