I visited a no-kill shelter when I was looking for a new dog to be added to my family a couple years ago. I was told that some of the dogs had been there for over a year. I wondered if that was why some of the dogs looked frantically at me when I passed their cages. They seemed to be saying, "Get me out of here," and "I don't belong here!" Sometimes, I wonder if No-Kill is the way to go if an animal has to stay in an indoor cage for a year or more. I guess it is like jail for humans. Some humans would rather stay in jail for years and live, while others would rather die. I wonder, if animals had a choice to live or die in shelters would they choose to live or die?
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