Shelter Dogs

Shelter Dogs
Directed byCynthia Wade
Produced byCynthia Wade
StarringSue Sternberg
CinematographyCynthia Wade
Edited byGeof Bartz
Music by
  • Simon Gentry
  • Mark Suozzo
Distributed by
  • Films Transit International
  • HBO
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Shelter Dogs is a 2003 documentary film directed and produced by Cynthia Wade about animal welfare in the United States and the ethics of animal euthanasia. Following a particular Upstate New York animal shelter and its staff over a three-year time span, Wade gives her audience a complex, honest look at the situations that arise when it comes to homeless animals and some of the difficult, controversial decisions that must be made within them.

It was aired on HBO as part of the series America Undercover.