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2. Animal shelter - Wikipedia

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   An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until they were claimed by their owners.

3. No-kill shelter - Wikipedia

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   A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals based on time limits or capacity, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals, animals suffering poor quality of life, or those considered dangerous to public safety. A no-kill shelter uses many strategies to promote shelter animals; to expanding its ...

4. Animal Shelter ‘Overflowing’ With Puppies in Massachusetts

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   An animal shelter in Salem, Massachusetts, is desperately in need of adopters because their facility is currently “overflowing” with puppies. On Tuesday, March 19, the Massachusetts Society ...

5. Animal Care Centers of NYC - Wikipedia

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   With an intake of 30,264 animals that is a rate of 20% down from 74% euthanasia in 2003. In March 2014 the New York Daily News published an article entitled "City animal shelters see boost in adoptions and drop in euthanasia" citing various improvements to the condition and care of shelter animals. AC&C still has to euthanize almost 5,000 ...

6. What are no-kill animal shelters and how do they work? - AOL

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   The Wake County Animal Center, Orange County Animal Shelter and Vance County Animal Shelter are in this category. Since they can’t turn away strays, some no-kill shelters have made it harder for ...

7. Animal shelters face a potentially fatal pet adoption crisis

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   Ironically, animal shelters saw a 20-percent drop in adoptions and other “outcomes” from 2019 to 2020, according to Shelter Animals Count, which maintains a national database. Shelters also ...