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Pardon me while I go on a tangent. I worked at a no-kill shelter for 10 years, so I think I'm pretty fucking qualified to say that kill shelters like PETA's are necessary. There were cats and dogs at our shelter that we got as puppies and kittens who lived there until their teens. It feels nice to know that we're not going to euthanize an animal just because it hasn't been adopted, until you think about the fact that we have a limited amount of space for animals.
A dog takes up a whole dog run. A cat takes up a whole cat kennel. There is limited space for animals at shelters, and they're always at capacity. How many perfectly healthy and adoptable animals did we turn away to be dumped on the street or sent to a kill shelter so that we could keep a chronically ill or otherwise unadoptable animal alive for years and years and years? You save one life, and condemn dozens of others to death. A no-kill shelter is just a deferred kill shelter.