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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • They’re taking on extreme cases a lot of the time. Not always defendable, to be sure, but there is a reason the animals end up there. But “Kennels” vary greatly in their strategies and environment, generally.

    There are shelters that are open access and take in all that show up. Which get criticism from the “no kill” shelter movement which do not. Violent and very sick animals exist among the large populace and not all want to deal with that fact and pawn off the hard decisions to others.

    There are also shelters with extensive fostering programs that have a goal of changing the adoption environment entirely.

    At the end of the day they all do good work in a tough, often unrecognized, field.