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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why? Because the dogs have a much higher chance of being adopted if they bring them to the DC area. Many of the rescue pets are brought to the DC area following natural disasters in their home state...there's a huge surge in available pets. If they couldn't bring them to other parts of the country they'd have to be euthanized.

Meanwhile there's a huge demand to adopt pets in the DC area that isn't met by the local supply - and regardless of how you might feel about it, people looking to adopt pets are often looking for specific breeds or puppies/young dogs and might not have the experience, skills or desire to adopt a pet with a history of abuse, difficult behaviors or health issues. Denying a chance for adoption to highly adoptable pets isn't likely to increase the supply of homes for difficult to adopt pets.  Instead, many DC-area families that would have adopted a pet are more likely to turn to purchasing pets from breeders or traveling longer distances outside our area. Presumably the goal is to get more pets adopted in the US overall rather than focusing only on the DC area and not caring about what happens to animals elsewhere - right?[/quote]

Abused dogs with difficult behavior and violent breeds should be put down, not readopted to injure again.[/quote]

Dogs with difficult behavior or dogs with a bite history most often are, unless there's a volunteer on site who takes them in personally. This myth that shelters would rather put a dangerous dog in a home vs. drop them is nonsense. We don't like euthanizing animals, but we all understand what's best for the animal. A clean death after a good day is much better than multiple rounds of placements and instability, or a bad death after an incident. We're not stupid.

The idea of "dangerous breeds" reflects an ignorance of what dogs are. All dogs can bite. Any dog under stress can bite. Yes, a bigger dog with a bigger mouth can do more damage, but that's not because they're an inherently dangerous breed. Reasonably intelligent people understand this and don't adopt more dog than they can handle. Stupid people blame breeds for human failures. Every single incident of a dog "snapping" and behaving dangerously "out of the blue" involves a human (or several) who didn't understand dogs well enough to protect their dog and themselves. [/quote]

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