Many purebreds turned into shelters find their way to rescue groups, where they are kept until a new home is found, but
most dogs entering shelters die there.
Not exact matches
Most shelters scan all cats and
dogs that
enter their facility.
Whisky's story highlights the importance of
entering your lost
dog's information into a centralized national database (Helping Lost Pets is the largest and
most comprehensive) so that volunteer matchmakers around the country can compare
shelter listings with lost pet listings.
After spending time in a
shelter envrionment sometimes even the
most well behaved
dog seems to have forgotten everything it knew before
entering the
shelter.
Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes are the
most prevalent type of
dog entering shelters across America.
In less than two generations, these practices have produced astounding results: we are caring for more than twice as many
dogs today as in the 1970's, yet the number of
dogs entering shelters in
most parts of the country is just a fraction of what it was 40 years ago.
These
dogs are far more likely to
enter shelters and to be euthanized in
shelters than
most other breeds.