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SHELTER DOGS

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Producer(s)	Heidi Reinberg, Cynthia Wade
Director(s)	Cynthia Wade
Release Date	1999
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Runtime	73:00 min
Youth Media	n
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

Each year, 5 million dogs are brought to animal shelters in the U.S.—the majority, nearly 4 million in all, will never be adopted.

The award-winning SHELTER DOGS—part of HBOs acclaimed America Undercover documentary series—is a compelling, intimate portrait of shelter owner Sue Sternberg and her staff as they struggle to respond to this crisis, one animal at a time. As a seemingly endless stream of homeless dogs arrives at their doorstep, Sternberg and her staff navigate a world in which there are no simple solutions, and where decisions are often of a life-and-death nature.

Some of the dogs are immediately placed in wonderful, permanent homes. But there are also troubling moral dilemmas surrounding some of the “gray area” dogs. If a dog bites a shelter worker, is it ethical to adopt him out to the general public? If a dog guards his food, can he be trusted in a family with children? And what about the dogs that never find homes—is it more humane to sentence them to a lifetime in the shelter or to euthanize them?

Filmed over the course of two years, this award-winning documentary provides a fresh, provocative look at the complex, morally ambiguous world of animal sheltering.

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Last Updated On:	February 07, 2012