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I worked at a no-kill shelter for two years. It was one of the best and worst experiences of my life. I met a lot of wonderful people and learned an enormous amount of valuable information, but I also met a lot of shitty people and saw some shitty things. It seemed to be stuck between all of the things a very good no-kill shelter should be...and all the things, realistically, a no-kill shelter is. We pulled a lot of puppies out of kill shelters as well as young dogs, and of course those were usually adopted out quickly. We rescued a lot of dogs off of the streets or in abandoned lots, and they tend to go quickly too. Everyone loves a sob story.

However, we did - and still do - have a lot of human-aggressive dogs who I just do not think should be adopted out. One is a bully-lab-thing that misdirects with great ease. She bit me on two occasions, the second one needing stitches. We had another dog who broke a co-worker's arm in two places. (He was sent to a sanctuary, which I still do not agree with.) We have a cage-brave bully-sighthound-thing who, aside from this, bit a volunteer badly. (She is suing the shelter.) We have a dog who has been in the shelter for four years. She came in as a perfectly adoptable 6-month-old pup. She recently attacked another dog and we now have to "hide" her because most people want to be put down.

The biggest problem, I think, is that most if not all no-kill rescues are run by these bleeding-heart people who border on sociopathic. They will go through hell and high water for a dog abandoned on the side of the highway, but when someone ties their dog to the fence or someone leaves their dog at a kill-shelter, they say how they want to hang these people or give these people the injection meant for the dog. And they mean these things. They really, really do. It's...frightening. It's one of the big reasons that I left. And yet these people love animals. I really wonder what it is that happened to these people that makes them think that this is okay.