Woman Gets Fired for Publishing Cute Photos of Dogs Scheduled to Be Killed

[The Straight Story]

Woman Gets Fired for Publishing Cute Photos of Dogs Scheduled to Be Killed

This drives me nuts. According to this New York Times story, a woman got fired from Animal Care & Control of NYC for taking and publishing cute photos of dogs about to get euthanized, hoping that someone would adopt them.

Her name is Emily Tanen. She was fired last May after publishing cute dog images taken with her personal $1500 Nikon DSLR camera instead of the ACCNY-issued cheapo webcam. Her snaps are great. Beautiful, in fact, showing the dogs at their cutest. You can see the difference between the photos taken by ACCNY—the "largest pet organization in the northeast rescuing nearly 40,000 animals each year"—and hers on the image above.

Yes, hers are the ones on the bottom. The ones that don't suck cat balls. They actually make me want to bring the dogs home. The ones on top make me think they are flea-ridden dogs about to get strangled in the home of a colorblind crack addict. You can see more of her photos here.

According to Animal Care & Control of NYC, Tanen was fired because she was taking photos against the guidelines of the organization. ACCNY's site photo guidelines say that no humans should appear in the photographs because "it looks like the animals have already been adopted."

http://gizmodo.com/5857607/woman-gets-fired-for-publishing-cute-photos-of-dogs-scheduled-to-be-killed

[Fumesucker]

1. I bet there's more to the story than is being told..

Someone was just looking for a reason to get rid of her..

[meow2u3]

2. The bosses had it in for her from Day 1

Control freaks who don't know their asses from their elbows how to do their own jobs got shown up by a subordinate who knew how to do hers. They fired her out of sheer jealousy and petty, childish office politics.

[michaz]

3. Time for people who care about animals to send some emails and make some

phone calls to this place. These animals in shelters need to have their pictures shown so they can be adopted rather than euthanized. Many shelters only keep animals for 5-7 days and if not adopted in that time period they are killed. Anyone with half a brain knows that is not enough time for these animals to be seen and adopted. I am beyond sick of the humans that euthanize animals. Spay and neuter should be mandatory for animals so that we can get the population under control.

[xchrom]

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