Sentences with phrase «shelters than most other breeds»

These dogs are far more likely to enter shelters and to be euthanized in shelters than most other breeds.

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Dogs were acquired from a variety of sources; the most common were friends or relatives (30 %), breeders (25 %), public or private animal shelter (15 %), with the remainder (less than 10 % each) coming from a breed rescue group, a newspaper advertisement, found as stray, being born at home, acquired from a pet store, and rare other sources (Fig. 1).