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Originally Posted by concretegurl  After 5 days what kind of place is this!? Why would they put her down anyways-is she sick or have major behavioral issue it's a pup-I can't fathom it.
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I think at a lot of shelters in the South it is worse. I know, at least around here, there are high kill shelters that can and will only hold for 3 days. Even puppies. They try, but just don't have the space to house them and they have so many dogs coming in all the time. Can you imagine? It's so horrible. Breaks my heart.
I know of a shelter in a more rural area of TN, that I follow on facebook, that doesn't even have walls! They seem to get puppies a lot and the poor things are left exposed to the elements. This is an area that is supposedly poor and struggling economically. They get donations of broken bags of unsellable food from Wal-mart, but sometimes they don't know if they will have enough to feed the dogs. Fortunately, they have a great group of volunteers who are working tirelessly to improve things though and have come a long way in the past few months. It's at least encouraging to see that there are people who care to put so much effort in. Adoption rate is getting better and they are able to hold a bit longer that way.