Book Review: The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals.

Killing and policing often occur in the name of care, when, for example, animals display putative signs of illness whose contagiousness is exacerbated by a captive environment, or when animal control decides a (often low-income) household has "too many" animals. This regulation includes the number of animals permitted at one address, whether guardians can let animals roam freely, and acceptable noises and odors from animals. Simultaneously, humans at PAW disavow the structural conditions for animal precarity by blaming what Guenther calls "the myth of the irresponsible owner", for animal suffering and death. [Extracted from the article]