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Overcrowding
in Animal Shelters
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Background There is a lot
of overcrowding in animal shelters. This has become a big problem in the
United States. People abandon animals all the time. On Tik Tok people post
how animals are always being abandoned at shelters and if they are abandoned
at a kill shelter, they are usually euthanized. It is a big issue for people to
adopt animals as “gifts” when they are living things. That you must take care
of and give attention to. 6.3 million animals are abandoned every year in
America and that needs to change. 3 million abandoned are dogs and 3 million
abandoned are cats. That causes overcrowding in the shelters. There are only
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Here are 5 ways
we can begin to help with this problem: 1.
When looking at candidates to adopt a cat or dog,
to make sure they are the right fit for the animal. 2.
Posting about the animals that need to be adopted
on social media, so more people from all over can see the animal. 3.
Shelter workers should do more research by spending
time with the animals to see what family they would best fit in, so they are
not returned. 4.
To spread more awareness on adopt don’t shop. Which
means for people to stop buying animals from breeders and to adopt an animal
instead. 5.
Having a transporting service that can transfer
animals to other states if there are people who are in a different state
trying to adopt that animal. |
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How can we know
if we have succeeded? If we all get
together in a country wide effort to help these animals get adopted. That
means spreading more awareness of adopt don’t shop. Once, that is spread and
more people are looking to adopt. We will see less crowding of shelters. |
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Eera Amin takes full responsibility for the information posted on this
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Amin and not that of California State University, Sacramento |
