Editorial: Animal Shelters Are In Crisis

Discusses shelter capacity, rescue oversight, pet ownership and possible policy changes. This editorial has no formal findings or recommendations. Its statistics and proposed legal reforms are source claims and proposals, not independently verified counts or enacted law. Located on physical PDF pages 57–64 of the unchanged 385-page annual; all report downloads open that same complete original. No current-cycle final agency response was supplied or verified; this gap does not establish nonresponse.