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You're absolutely right. Of course no one at any shelter wants to euthanize a healthy animal, but unfortunately, in most communities, there are more homeless animals than there are shelter spots, foster homes, etc. There are two shelters in my community, both no-kill. They are both nearly always maxed out at the number of cats they have, and often for dogs, too. That means that you can't just walk in and relinquish an animal, they absolutely won't take it. So, if people are desperate, they might do something worse to the animal (shoot, drown, abandon, toss out of a car). It's heartbreaking, I had to stop volunteering at my local shelter because I couldn't take turning the desperate people and innocent pets away.