Dog shelter volunteer deserves praise not abuse

I was disgusted to read this article (‘Dog killed in ‘savage’ attack in council shelter’ September 15) which gives an unfair and biased view of the council shelter, dog warden and wonderful lady who has been giving her own time to help to re-home hundreds of dogs which would otherwise be most likely euthanised.

Mullingar has one of the best rates of re-homing dogs in Ireland. Some council shelters automatically euthanise dogs without trying to re-home them.

This was a terrible incident but these things can happen when a number of strange dogs are together.