Shelter Dogs (2003)

Directed by

Cynthia Wade

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the staff of an animal shelter in Upstate New York over three years. It shows the hard choices they face about caring for homeless animals.

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What happens

Shelter Dogs is a 2003 documentary film directed and produced by Cynthia Wade about animal welfare in the United States and the ethics of animal euthanasia. Following a particular Upstate New York animal shelter and its staff over a three-year time span, Wade gives her audience a complex, honest look at the situations that arise when it comes to homeless animals and some of the difficult, controversial decisions that must be made within them. It was aired on HBO as part of the series America Undercover. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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