Issue 2: Animal welfare This extract is from the beginning of a feature article that highlights the plight of abandoned pets, many of whom will be euthanised after 28 days if a home isn’t found A pound of flesh =SSz Ee By Stathi Paxinos Photo: Rick Stevens | | | | TRISH Burke tries not to cry. animal shelter at Woodend, until they are sold, while others But it is so offen a losing battle near Melbourne. She is part work and volunteer at pounds and she has to stop the car of a growing network of givingdoomed former petssome tnd let her emotions flow. For people across the country who love and comfort. Some spend every cat and dog that she has dedicate their lives to rescuing hours posting photographs and squeezed into her animal trailer and helping pets that would videos of the animals on rescue after a visit to a pound, she has otherwise be put down. websites. had to look into the pleading Some spend hours every day _Itcan bea heart wrenchingjob. faces of many more that she travelling to pounds and shelters There is no d couldn't help. She knows they of scouring websites in search the number of cats and dogs that may only have a few days left of cats and dogs that may only are euthanised in Australia every before their time runs out and have day they are given a lethal injection, Many will take animals into by those working in the area is Burke runs Pets Haven their homes and care for them about 250000. nitive estimate of | or even hours to live, year, but the kill rte most quoted extract f Age, \6June 2011} Understanding the issue secseoes 1 Whatis effective about the opening sentence? 2 Inthe opening paragraph, what is it that upsets Trish Burke? (SON: 978 1 4202 29905