Last summer, we found two strays that no one claimed. The first one was obviously neglected for a long time, and may have been abused. The second was a five-month old puppy who loved all people - my husband found her inside a building at the university he works at (we assume she was dropped off there). We rehomed the first dog and kept the second. It ended up good for both of them, but what if we hadn't foun them? Rather than neglecting a dog and then not even trying to find it when it got away, and rather than dropping a puppy off in a building and leaving it to fate, shouldn't those owners have done the responsible thing and taken those dogs to a no-kill shelter, where it would have been guaranteed that they would would be fed, sheltered, safe, and healthy until being placed in a new home?