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Today while stuck in traffic on 690 trying to get out of the city, I looked to my left to see a deceased tan Pitbull in the guardrail. That's where we're at folks. People just setting dogs free to run in traffic. But sure, let's build data centers and aquariums and try and jump on soccer bandwagons 🤬 Syracuse...you are disappointing. Get it together.

Open intake shelters are not the problem. When your municipal shelter is overflowing and euthanizing for space, that is a community failure, not a shelter failure. The shelter is doing exactly what it exists to do, which is accept animals when there is nowhere else for them to go. Blaming the shelter for being full is like blaming the emergency room for having sick patients.

The real problems run deeper: a lack of accessible veterinary care, unaffordable housing that forces people to surrender pets, insufficient community support for owners who are struggling, and living in a culture that expects immediate results and same day delivery of items we order. We seem to always look for a quick fix rather than address root causes.

Shipping dogs off to a "sanctuary" is a version of that quick fix, and as I wrote about this week, it is one of the most dangerous ones. If we want to actually help dogs, we have to be willing to look honestly at the systemic issues that put them in crisis in the first place, and invest in real solutions at the community level.

This week's blog post is about the myth of dog sanctuaries, and why it fails. It's worth a read, especially right now with the crisis at Miranda's Rescue hot in the news.

https://rescuedbytraining.com/2026/06/29/the-dog-sanctuary-myth/

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