Puppy escapes inhumane death available at animal shelter

Jed, a six-month-old puppy, escaped death at a Utah animal control facility that keeps orphaned pets for 72 hours. At the facility, animals that haven't found a home after a 72 hour period, the shelter shoots the pets. If they run out of bullets, they drive over the animals with their trucks. The dead animals are then thrown into a sewage pit.

According to the Helen Woodward Animal Center in San Diego County, the mayor of Hinckley, Utah, Donald Brown, believes it's efficient and cost-effective.

"We're still trying to wrap our heads around this," says Helen Woodward Animal Center (HWAC) spokesman John Van Zante. "How does an animal control facility call itself a, 'shelter' then take such inhumane actions to deal with orphaned pets?"



The community claims that some of the pets are not always dead when they are thrown into the pit.

Adoptions Manager LaBeth Thompson works with animal welfare groups across the country to help find families for pets.

"Never during my 28 years at Helen Woodward Animal Center have I heard of any animal welfare organization that uses such cruel and antiquated methods to deal with an animal entrusted to their care," Thompson said about the Utah shelter that shoots or runs-over pets as a means of euthanasia.

With news video.