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Why do animal shlters kill animals?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Mainly because the animal is either unadoptable, for example, an illness/injury is too severe or expensive to cure, or the animal is aggressive towards other animals or people. However decent animals are often humaneley euthanized, or destroyed, because they have been there for a while without being adopted and so the shelter needs to crreate more room for animals with a better chance. Older animals tend to not be adopted, especially when another option is a cute, fluffy puppy, so they will be destroyed before younger animals.

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14y ago

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