"Boston animal shelter found in crisis; City moves 35 animals to other shelters" by Andrew Ryan | Globe Staff July 11, 2014
Boston’s city-run animal shelter is meant to be a sanctuary for abandoned and abused animals, a refuge for forsaken creatures. But late last month, the Animal Rescue League discovered such troubling conditions in the Roslindale pound that it warned the city the shelter was in crisis.
One brown dog named Camilla, rescued in 2011 from a dog-fighting ring, was gaunt, dehydrated, and had open sores on her body. Other animals howled incessantly. Cats lay on single sheets of wet newspaper.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s administration launched an investigation, moved 35 animals to other shelters, and suspended the city’s director of animal control and prepared to fire him.
The city pound is on Mahler Road, a dead end near Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale. The cinder-block building is decorated with a vibrant mural of a golden retriever, a parrot, and other healthy-looking animals.
But inside, the Animal Rescue League found a startlingly different portrait....
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NEXT DAY UPDATE: Smell of bleach, air of hope at Boston’s animal shelter
Oh, thank God the Globe cleaned the place up quick!
Didn't Gandhi once say something about judging a society on the way they treat their animals?
Of course, I'm a long way from him now. He once said poverty is the greatest violence, and I'm of the mind to shovel all the loot to the 1% now. Be it Bo$ton or anywhere else, give it all to 'em. Shove it up and in every orifice of them. $tuff 'em with it!
