Stunned by the "MRCTAL"

I have only just come across the story which worries me. As a news junkie I wonder what bubble I must have been living in to miss this story when it originally broke.

Thanks to this Facebook group I found a link to the Many Tears organisation and on there the news of what the MRCTAL had been doing. You read it in their own words here.

As distressing as the story is I wonder why the MRCTAL has got itself into a position where on the one hand it had rehomed 15,872 stray and unwanted dogs, but on the other had to kill 8,313. I know that among that number there would be those cases that truly are beyond help - and I would expect that most of those are for medical reasons. But when 10 dogs are destroyed in such a brutal manner without any consultation with other rescues it seems the charity has lost its point of being.

Thankfully we are a small charity but we have already experienced a difficult dog. A dog that has displayed aggression and fear and who is requiring intensive therapy and training to get him used to the sights and sounds that had been denied him previously. It is thanks to our dedicated volunteer Donna who has been working with him to get him on the road to recovery. It would sound to me that those 10 GSD's needed similar treatment. Every dog deserves a second chance.