Hyperreal Film Club
People Are The Problem, Not Animals
RECEIVED Tue., Feb. 22, 2011
Dear Editor,
Re: “Safety Net or Dead End?” [News, Feb. 18]: According to the city's website, the Town Lake Animal Center currently has 127 dogs available for adoption. Most of them are full or mixed breed pit bulls or Labrador retrievers. Both of these breeds have been fashionable over the last 10 years or so, meaning that millions of morons have bought pit bull or Labrador puppies without thinking of the consequences. Once they grow up, they are big, rambunctious, difficult-to-care-for dogs. All of the sudden the morons lose interest, and the poor dog or its mixed-breed puppies wind up at TLAC. Maybe Austin Pets Alive! should focus its bile on those people, rather than the TLAC staff.
Re: “Safety Net or Dead End?” [News, Feb. 18]: According to the city's website, the Town Lake Animal Center currently has 127 dogs available for adoption. Most of them are full or mixed breed pit bulls or Labrador retrievers. Both of these breeds have been fashionable over the last 10 years or so, meaning that millions of morons have bought pit bull or Labrador puppies without thinking of the consequences. Once they grow up, they are big, rambunctious, difficult-to-care-for dogs. All of the sudden the morons lose interest, and the poor dog or its mixed-breed puppies wind up at TLAC. Maybe Austin Pets Alive! should focus its bile on those people, rather than the TLAC staff.
Blake Smith