Hi there not to take any thing away from your pet peeves, but at least they are giving them a chance. The vet I worked for people would bring them in to be put down cuz they didn't want them to possible suffer. The excuses made me sick,it got to big ,it sheds, we have a new house,new baby,or it doesn't fit our life style. Or then there is the others in a migrant camp they move on and leave the pets that they gathered behind.I don't like the shelters eaither but at least it is a safer place for the animal. Corinna