• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    After having volunteered briefly in an animal shelter, the US has it’s hands full shipping dogs from states in the south with poor laws to state in the north so the dogs dont simply get killed because anyone in the wrong states can buy and abandon a dog in the matter of a week. Cant tell you how many dogs we got from Georgia in particluar. Most were days away from execution, many were so young they weren’t even finished growing. I imagine many more were killed.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t work in the field, but I follow it a bit. I live in Washington and we get tons of dogs imported from Texas.

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      3 months ago

      I’m on the cat side of things in the South. I Foster the extra spicy ones and get them tamed up so they’re safe for adoption. And the majority of cases cats here in South Carolina end up getting shipped up to New England because apparently they have a cat shortage up there and we have a surplus down here.