>>So, Milwaulkee represents.
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>>I haven't had a lot of time to look at each and every shelter, however I though that a good place to start would be other shelters in VA, as posted on the VDACS website. For example, the Buckingham County (comes to mind coz I'm headed to the county tomorrow)pound has a euthanasia rate that approaches PETA's at 90%.
>>Lunenberg Co. is closer to 95%...at a glance there were several county/city facilities that were in the 70%-80% range.
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>>http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?
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>>But, since there are comparatively few shelters and rescues reporting figures to any single nationwide clearinghouse of information, there really aren't any firm statistics. And since those statistics that are available *can* include figures from NO-KILL shelters, the numbers are likely skewed.

Actually I am not going to get into the no-kill movement, that is not the basis of this discussion. The information on the agency I supplied is a facility that does NOT have an adoption program active. They do NOT have adoptions. PETA's facilty does. MADACC does transfers to other organizations. PETA does not. MADACC holds the county contract for animal control, it is not a functioning humane society. Milwaukee county had 953,328 residents in 2008. That means animals are taken in legal issues, illegal ownership, dog fighting raids, drug raids, etc. They also maintain the stray hold. As far as I am aware, PETA does not hold this contract. Having been very familiar with the inner workings of this shelter as well as many, I do feel safe in judging PETA's shelter as having an excessively high and deplorable euthanasia rate.
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