Ok first off imagine what would happen if all pounds and shelters quit euthanizing today. In a week where would we put the dogs. Pounds DON'T LIKE doing the dirty work but it has to be done because people continue to abandon there dogs or overbreed their pets.
Because pounds do the dirty work some people refuse to donate anything to them. This make conditions at the pound worse and once again makes people view pounds in a negative way. This shouldn't be.
An extremely large percentage of no-kill shelters have dogs and cats that live their lives in small kennels. When they run out of room they make people pay tons of money for the animals or they have waiting lists, many times they are so full they have to turn people away. Sometimes they bring their animals to the pound to be euthanized because they can't do it at their facility.
If all shelters and pounds stopped euthanizing today, there'd be thousands of extra animals a day with no place to go. We would have to house sevaral to a kennel that's too small for one and within a few weeks they would all be turning people away. The dogs that make it into the overfilled facilities would have small rations of food because there'd be no funding whatsoever for all these animals.
Is it the pounds fault that we NEED somebody to take responsibility for these animals? No, no-kill shelters refuse to take any responsibility for making it "ok" to abandon a pet.
Does the pound love to kill animals? Absolutely not, they just face the reality of all the irresponsible pet owners
The pound is a scapegoat that you can blame for overpopulation when in fact you should be donating your time with a pound so they don't HAVE to kill all your animals.