No, Steven. It's not okay. It sucks and not one person here has said otherwise. What in the world does eating dog meat have to do with our unwanted pet population in the states? The video you posted is great and I wish her the best of luck. There are a few sanctuaries here in the states. It's just not a viable option for the sheer number of unwanted animals in the US. If you had ever worked in or volunteered at a shelter for longer than a short time, you'd see that living in a cage with little exercise and socialization changes animals. Many become neurotic and unadoptable. Many of those dogs are the product of poor breeding. Many already have behavior problems that make them difficult to find homes for. Unadoptable dogs are miserable and if they remain then they take a spot away from an adoptable dog. If that sounds terrible ... well, it is. It's awful. But it's a fact. There are worse things than death. For many dogs living in a cage is one of them. Foster homes are better, but contact any rescue and you'll find that there are never enough good foster homes. Rescue runs on donations and volunteers. They can only do so much with the funds available. Most of the volunteers aren't experienced enough to work with dogs with behavior problems, so those homes are few and far between.
You can continue to view the problem of shelter over crowding and unwanted animals from your limited viewpoint, or you can enter into a constructive discussion where all parties try to come up with solutions. I'll start. One thing that you (generic you) can do is offer your time to a shelter to work with the dogs. All the dogs, not just the problem dogs. You can sponsor a dog that has been in the shelter for a long time, or maybe an old dog that has little chance of being adopted. By sponsor, I mean pay the adoption fee. You can offer to do a leg of a transport to get a dog across the country to their new home. Everyone can make sure to only get their dogs from responsible breeders. Do your research. Don't support backyard breeders and mills. Only support breeders that are also involved in breed rescue in some way - most are. Advocate for responsible dog ownership which, good or bad, includes spaying or neutering for the majority of dog owners. Cut down the number of unwanted puppies and kittens and you cut down the number of animals in a shelter. Advocate for changes in animal laws, because what we have are pretty crappy. That's just a few ideas of what individuals can do. What are your ideas?
Why did I bring up Korea? Because that was their sick solution to over crowding of dogs. Now the restaurants steal pets to make dog food quotas, disgusting people eat dogs but it is what it is.
A huge problem in the states is the hiring of people, when you consistently hire a lazy non creative group of people for a job that requires a thought process with creative solutions, you end up with euthanization as the "easy" option. Why don't I volunteer or even step one foot into a shelter anymore? Because I don't want to even feel the energy of the types of people that can put a needle into an innocent mutt to make room for others. I live my life each and every day finding solutions to big problems which takes a ton of creativity, I work daily with others that do the same.
This current process is a nightmare that has become "normal" so its reached its peak, the hiring will continue the way it is as the top level is already gone( the mindset of the kill has to be done). This is a problem with the entire system today. Did you know that in order to become a regular homicide detective most departments will only hire those that were police first. Just imagine by doing that how many cases go unsolved where if they hired strong creatives outside the unsolved rates would diminish. The same goes for hiring of fed employees, one must be a lawyer or a CPA to become an agent, just imagine the lack of creativity when they do that. So what happens is the tough work gets done by very expensive contract agencies.
This is what happens today in the dog world. You have your Hope for Paws in the states doing massive amounts of rescues, using households all over the states for foster and being creative in not only the rescue but the process. You have the woman in tangier who has a battle not only monetarily but culturally, and she put her mind to it and now she has 400 dogs on a large piece of land. Hope for paws had a money issue, and worked on it and teamed up with Marshmellow to solve the money problem. Not that hard for non lazys.
The problem with shelters are the lack of care, and problem solving for the dogs. They hire the no empathy people to go along to get along, this is why it will never change. No thanks, I will keep my energy far away from those lazy black hearted people on the inside. I will keep donating to the types like Hope for Paws where you see results. A dogs unluckiest day is to end up in the hands of a kill shelter where the mindset is trained to discard the unwanteds using nonsense like nuerological disorders or they've been in the cage too long. All this is is misery from being unlucky from day one.