Some of the wild dogs that were distributed to local pet sanctuaries

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

You may notice a problem with this sentence right off the bat: It doesn't make sense for the officials to have given the dogs to pet sanctuaries and to have exterminated them as part of the same gesture. A sanctuary doesn't kill dogs, at least not if it really deserves to be called a sanctuary, so the sentence needs to describe the two actions (distributing the dogs to shelters and killing them) as alternatives. Choices (C) and (D) make that correction by substituting the original and with the much more logical or. Try reading the remaining options into the sentence and you'll see that (D) makes no sense in context; made collected is not anyone's idea of correct grammar. (C) remains.

An 800 test taker understands that meaning is an inevitable part of grammar and an inevitable part of Sentence Correction questions. The purpose of grammar and its many rules is to facilitate communication, to make one person's meaning clear to someone else.

I don't understand the logic of this sentence. Why would they collect exterminated dogs to prevent dog attacks? They are already dead

Past Perfect Continuous is preferred in this case as 2 separate actions happened in the past :

(1) Collection ----------> (2) Distribution
Hence correct Answer must be (C)

Why the choice answer choice use "past perfect tense"?

Why not just past simple tense?

Please explain

Thank you

What is the need of sequencing when it is clearly mentioned that Last year dogs were distributed or exterminated?

A: wrong use of "and", those two actions can't both be happening.
B: Changed the meaning of the original sentence.
D: Made collected grammar wrong.
E: Last year city health officials distributed some wild dogs to local pet sanctuaries as well as exterminated some. This was part of the city's initiative to protect local residents from dog attacks.

C: had a question about past perfect, but it makes sense if the city is not doing it anymore.

D:

It means such dogs are collected before they were sent to pet sanctuaries.
Time line：first，collect ，then distributed to.so ，use past perfect is OK。

(A) Some of the wild dogs that were distributed to local pet sanctuaries by city health officials and exterminated last year were Incorrect use of Simple Past as the sentence reveals two events i.e. distribution/extermination and collection. Since, the collection should have been done before distribution/extermination. Therefore, Past Perfect should be used for that event.

(B) Some of the wild dogs that the local pet sanctuaries received and city health officials exterminated have been Incorrect use of Present Perfect

(C) Some of the wild dogs that were distributed to local pet sanctuaries or exterminated by city health officials last year had been Correct

(D) Last year some of the wild dogs that were distributed to local pet sanctuaries or exterminated by city health officials made Incorrect as it changes the meaning.

(E) Last year city health officials distributed to local pet sanctuaries as well as exterminated some of the wild dogs that had been Incorrect as it changes the meaning.