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Rescue groups don’t create more homes for unwanted animals -- they take up slots that otherwise would have been used at the county pound or local humane shelter. Face it, there are only so many homes to go around and “slow-kill” and “no-kill” solutions can’t change that fact. In other words, “fostering” a dog for three weeks (or three years) doesn’t somehow miraculously prevent other dogs from stepping up and overcrowding some other kennel. So, your local no-kill shelter or rescue group makes the stats for other shelters get worse. It does not make “additional” adoptions happen
The real opportunity advantage of helping a rescue group lies in finding the ones who do adoptions right -- providing meaningful behavioral and medical help that will make a normally wonderful dog even better.
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