Designer Dogs, Shelter Dogs, and the Small Shift That Would Save Lives
When most people decide to get a dog, they start with a picture in their head — a breed, a look, a particular idea of what the dog at the end of the leash should be. That picture is filling America's shelters. Hundreds of thousands of dogs are euthanized for space every year, not because they're sick or dangerous, but because the buyers who could have chosen them chose a specific breed of puppy instead.
In this episode, Penny Ellison walks through the math of a problem the animal welfare community rarely talks about directly. The dogs dying in shelters for space aren't dying because Americans…
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