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In a recent letter to elected officials in Atlanta and Fulton County, PETA shared troubling documentation that animals are being warehoused in inhumane conditions at the Fulton County Animal Services shelter, operated through a contract with a self-professed “no-kill” group doing business as LifeLine Animal Project. Eyewitness accounts, video footage, and photos that were reportedly taken recently show animals in deplorable conditions in filthy enclosures, unable to avoid their own waste or feces-caked bedding. Some were in cages so small that they were barely able to stand, stretch, or turn around and had no access to water.
A large dog has barely enough room to stand or turn around in a wire crate, with no access to water. (Photo reportedly taken at Fulton County Animal Services on November 28, 2022)
A large dog is housed in a cramped, filthy crate. (Photo reportedly taken at Fulton County Animal Services on November 28, 2022.)
Animal shelters are not above the law. Please join us in demanding a criminal investigation into the recent allegations.
Dogs are housed in small, filthy wire crates. (Photos reportedly taken at Fulton County Animal Services on November 28, 2022)
The publicly funded facility also has a dangerous policy of refusing to accept animals in need of refuge, which condemns dogs and cats to suffer and even die of neglect in the custody of people who can’t—or won’t—provide them with needed care (including medical treatments) or to be abandoned and hit by cars, starve to death, or die from disease or abuse.
Please contact city and county leaders today and urge them to take immediate action to protect animals in the care and custody of the publicly funded animal shelter, including by requiring the facility to accept every animal taken to it and to house them humanely and in accordance with the law.