@article {Frommer:1999:1063-1119:1,
	author = "Frommer, Stephanie S.",
	author = "Arluke, Arnold",
	title = "Loving Them to Death: Blame-Displacing Strategies of Animal Shelter Workers and Surrenderers",
	journal = "Society and Animals",
	volume = "7",
	year = "1999",
	abstract = "This article examines how shelter workers and individuals who surrender their companion animals to shelters manage guilt about killing previously valued animals. Researchers used an ethnographic approach that entailed open-ended interviews and directobservations of workers and surrenderers in a major, metropolitan shelter. Both workers and surrenderers used blame displacement as a mechanism for dealing with their guilt over euthanasia or its possibility. Understanding this coping strategy provides insights into how society continues to relinquish animal companions-despite the animals' chances of death-as well as how shelter workers cope with killing the animals they aim to protect.",
	pages = "1-16(16)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/saa/1999/00000007/00000001/art00001"
	doi = "doi:10.1163/156853099X00121"
}