Home / Animal House: When Keeping Pets Turns from Caring to Cruelty: W5
Catalogue Number: CTV508
Producer: CTV
Producing Agencies: CTV
Subject: Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2011
Running Time: 20:00
Animal House: When Keeping Pets Turns from Caring to Cruelty: W5
Catalogue Number: CTV508
Producer: CTV
Producing Agencies: CTV
Subject: Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2011
Running Time: 20:00
More than half of Canadian households have pets, but what happens when owners start hoarding them? CTV's W5 investigates one N.S. shelter where video captures 78 cats and 27 dogs living in deplorable conditions, and is possibly the worse case of animal neglect ever seen by the SPCA.
Warning: Some images are graphic and may be disturbing.