animal cops

This show floors me.

It's climbing up my list of favorites. I just can't conceive of the type of strength it must require to be able to go in day after day and rescue animals from unspeakably squalid and dangerous conditions. I'd either collapse into a sobbing mess or punch the shit out of the assholes who treat their pets like that.

Heartbreaking, when they have to put animals down. But there are moments, like when a kitten that got rescued from being stuck between two parking-garage concrete walls is adopted, and they show the kitten cuddling and licking its new sister -- i could feel my heart melting inside my chest. Seriously, i had to lie down.

And the type of people who do this job -- they'll really surprise you. Don't judge a book, i guess, but they range from stereotypical butch cop types to hulking motorcycle gang looking dudes to street talking guys who will go off about an owner and then bend down all "wook at the pwetty puppy!" when they're saving some poor dog from starvation.


...right now they're rescuing animals from a "collector's" home. Four dogs, eight cats, two rabbits, a duck, and forty-two cockatiels. The house, when they showed the inside, was unbelievably disgusting. The rabbits' claws were over an inch long, and every surface was covered in shit. They've also shown a pair of mastiffs who were starving to death and would literally have frozen in the Detroit winter had they not been rescued the day they were found.

How can people treat animals like that?