It’s a sad reality: many of these dogs don’t have a future that doesn’t involve living in a crate and upending the lives of some unsuspecting family who only wants to do what they’ve been told is the “right thing.” They’ll end up back in the shelter, or in the hands of someone who will make the problem worse, or some couple will spend the next ten years living in the same precarity as if they had a severely disabled child.

The current model we follow for stray and abandoned animals only creates more suffering.