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Originally Posted by gaijingirl  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. |
Three days, that's terrible! I really think we have too many dogs in this country and I wish that all breeders would look at to their reasons for breeding. If it's just too produce pets, please reconsider this, we have so many pets in the country now, and too many people have pets that have no business owning one.