High volume shelters in very rural parts of the US, most notably in the south, with a high turnover of dogs tend to have the best and most adoptable dogs and puppies around. Sometimes these shelters have little money, few resources, and few adopters (because they are in remote areas) but they do have caring, inspired, hard working staff doing grueling jobs with little support.
These communities are still experiencing true pet overpopulation and have many sweet farm dogs and "failed" working dogs who are great family pets or produce litters of great family pets: there shelters are overflowing with this surplus.
Unfortunately it is the urban area shelters and most shelters in the northeast that have the largest number of people interested in adopting and the fewest behaviorally adoptable dogs. The greatest obstacle to bringing these wonderful dogs and wonderful adopters together is geographical distance.
A sister shelter program creates a partnership between urban and northeastern shelters with rural shelters making these wonderful dogs available in areas where they can be adopted.
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