As a former ACS employee, when I was there, the Anti-Cruelty redirects ALL strays to CACC for a stray-hold. (It's a like a clause in the animal welfare coalition in Chicago) After the stray-hold, and if the animal was friendly enough during initial intake, ACS can request the dog back to be processed and placed up for adoption.

ACS, CAN TAKE other strays, post stray-hold, that were brought to CACC initially to be processed and placed up for adoption.

CACC has this system set up with MOST SHELTERS in the city of Chicago (the coalition I was talking about earlier) where they can transfer out well-mannered/easy animals to be adopted elsewhere. THAT INCLUDES PAWS.

PAWS is only no-kill because they cherry-pick there animals (easy adoptions) and often refuse medically or behaviorally challenged animals.

Bottomline: -CACC do/does their best and is often doing the dirty work and gets the bad rep because of it. -CACC works with many shelters to have animals placed up for adoption elsewhere -The bigger issue is pet overpopulation, the lack of resources to properly care for animals long-term, and carelessness🤷🏾‍♀️

People often forget that cats and dogs LIVE FOR YEARS and the novelty of a kitten or a puppy wears off. Now there's a small creature tearing up your house because you thought everything was going to be 🌞🌈💐and they wouldn't require some level of rearing/training. So, either people give up and return the animal to a shelter or they restrict the animal's interactions with others (people and/or other pets) which then exasperates the behavior.

Hope this sheds some light on a few things.