Quote Originally Posted by reediculous View Post
Gotcha.....they even have the old shelter i used to work for on there! amazing how many dogs and cats are on there! unreal!
It's depressing.

For every one that makes it into rescue, dozens more die in the shelter. A lot of the shelters in the south have a 90% or higher kill rate.

I work with several rescue groups that pull dogs from high-kill shelters and funnel them into no-kill rescues in other states, via volunteer transport drivers. As a result, I get a lot of e-mails with long lists of faces and bios, all marked "Ugent! Will be euthanized if not claimed by tomorrow". There are hundreds of them every week, and that's just in the tiny area I monitor. We only save a fraction of them...there's just nowhere for them to go.

I urge anyone reading this to consider fostering in-home. That's probably our biggest limitation in choosing to pull a dog. We just don't have the homes lined up to take them, and have limited resources to pay for them to be boarded. Very few rescue groups are lucky enough to have the funding for a facility to house them. We are dependant on volunteers to house and care for them until they get adopted. And sadly, the number of people willing to step and do that is far below the number of dogs in need.