[concretegurl]

So glad she was adopted and hope we all end up seeing her pics on YT!

That is sickening! I see why now some people on here flip out when I say take the stray you found to animal control (pound). Although I still believe people should be obligated to do so to have the dog scanned-where would you report your missing dog too-however I have had many dealing with local pounds here-we have a standard of care that I consider needing improvement but apparently it is vastly above most-there needs to be some legislation to make improvement.

I'm going to look into what I can do and it (something has to be) can be done. The pound where I got my Scoobers from is about 200 miles south of me-there are just North of the Bay Area and get a lot of pup mill dogs dumped there-the pound there couldn't handle the intimidation so they are now working hand in hand with 3 I think now 4 rescues (literally the buildings are attached) to ensure no animal without serious medical or behavioral issues finds a home.

My local animal shelters when not overwhelmed actually takes in smaller dogs from all over (usually CA bit some from other states-driven or flown in) because we have a want for smaller dogs here and there is excesses elsewhere.

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.