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Is there a pound (dog/animal) in Somerville/Cambridge/Boston?

I've always wondered that, but Google doesn't really provide a good answer.

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Re: Supporting a kill shelter?

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

My earlier post in this thread:
"The animal rescue league takes in animals from all the surrounding areas of Boston, and they are technically a kill-shelter. I worked there for three days and couldn't stop crying about the poor little animals so I quit.

That said, this is Boston, and if a shelter does put animals to sleep, it is for the sake of being humane. Animals can go crazy if they're kept in little cages, and also I don't think they have the funding or space to keep every animal that comes through. All adoptable animals (ie dogs that don't seem to bite people) are put up for adoption, and if I'm not mistaken, none of the animals, once cleared for adoption, can be put down. I always adopt from there. There's never a shortage of animals who are in dire need of a good human to give them a chance in life. You probably already knew about them, but they're the closest thing to real pound I know of."

Another poster was concerned that she had been supporting a kill-shelter by adopting her cat from the ARL. I was pointing out the positives of having a well-run, humane animal control system in Boston to reassure her that it was not bad to adopt from shelters such as the ARL, who aims to reduce the suffering of animals as much as is within their power.