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Refusing to name a euthanasia threshold is not a policy against euthanasia — it is a decision to decide later, under pressure, by whoever is in the room. Three separate questions hide inside the word, and the third one, opportunity cost, is the one most rescues will not admit is a question at all.
DogsPublished return rates for adopted dogs and cats run from 7% to 20%, but the figure your organization reports depends mostly on where you draw the cut-off. The published studies disagree about when returns happen, and that disagreement is the useful part.
Dogs · GuidesA dog in your care bit someone and now there's a 10-day hold. Handled well, it's ten boring days and a clean release. Handled badly, it's a panicked adopter, a euthanasia order, or a rabies scare that didn't need to happen. Here's how to run it right.
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