With the
overpopulation in shelters around the country and the high numbers of euthanization — 4.5 million pets a year according to the Human Society — adopting a dog is one of the best things you can do to help this problem.
What interests me most: The number of lost pets and the number of those lost who get recovered indicates that there is a possibility that a significant percentage of the stray dogs and cats
in the shelters around the country do not have someone looking for them.
Not only does Petfinder have adoptable pets
located in shelters around the country, but there is a listing of pets living in homes that need to be re-homed for various reasons, a lost and found pet section, a message board, a library full of information and more.
Unfortunately, they are among the animals most likely to
die in shelters around the country, either from disease in the harsh shelter environment or from a lack of the resources needed to get them through the critical first weeks of life.
In shelters around the country, a diagnosis of parvovirus is a death sentence for a puppy.
New research on lost pets conducted by the ASPCA reveals that a significant percentage of the stray dogs and cats
in shelters around the country may not have someone looking for them.