I am so thankful there are animal shelters that take unwanted and stray animals.
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
go to facility for 74 municipal animal shelters and animal rescue groups who have run out of space or have animals in need of medical services.
History.
The shelter was founded in 1976, as an alternative to shelters that euthanized or destroyed unwanted and stray animals after a period of time if homes could not be found for them. Its first twelve years were spent in a small building in Garland, Texas. In 1998, the building was no longer available, and a larger shelter reopened in Carrollton, Texas.