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RE: PETA killed 95% of adoptable pets in '08

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Posted by: webwheeler at Thu May 6 12:51:39 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by webwheeler ]  
   

I'm not your personal research assistant, Steph, so please do some research on your own! I will, however, indulge you this time:

"Each year, approximately 6-8 million dogs and cats end up in 4,000-6,000 shelters throughout the US. About half of those (3-4 million, one every nine seconds) are euthanized – the leading cause of death for healthy animals."

Source: dishmag.com/issue51/pets/2160/-every-nine-seconds-a-shelter-animal-is-put-to-death-what-can-you-do-/

Half means 50%, Steph, which is what I posted.

The definition of "adoption" has nothing to do with this issue - animals that are reclaimed by their owners are not part of the adoption pool - it's as simple as that, regardless of how you define adoption.


   

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