I was thinking about going to the animal shelter and adopting a pet scheduled to be euthanized soon. Do you have a pet from the animal shelter?
No but i have a pet i picked from the street
That's still great! I'd prefer a no-kill shelter, where they only euthanized terminally ill pets, but none around here. Do you have no-kill shelters where you live?
No I do not. I live in a country side
I understand, animal shelters have such a high euthanization rate, where no-kills have a 90% save rate.
Are you a vet. Or how come you know more about animal shelter
Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray
of California at Davis researchers Aline and Robert Kidd. Similar themes were identified in research conducted in Canada by Michelle Lem, Director of Community Veterinary Outreach in Ontario, Canada. These pet owners described the ways their pets shaped their environment: they would sleep outside in the rain if the only option was shelter in a no pet shelter; their pet kept them off drugs and alcohol, and they avoided risky behavior that might result in arrest and incarceration because they feared their pet would be removed or euthanized. They also reported that