Sentence examples for enter shelters from inspiring English sources

Each year in this country, something like four million dogs enter shelters, and 1.2 million of them are euthanized.

Those who bravely enter shelters report having to protect their belongings by sleeping on them and enduring an often violent, drug-filled atmosphere.

About 776,000 of the 5.5 million dogs that enter shelters each year are euthanized, according to Mississippi State University statistics.

Rather than seek to get more dogs adopted, Weise tries to keep them with their original families so that they never enter shelters in the first place.

After those warnings, the number of applicants to enter shelters dropped by 17 percent, evidence, the city said, that the program might have enticed some people to leave their homes for the promise of the subsidy.

Every year between 8 million and 12 million animals enter shelters, and as many as 5 million are killed because there are no homes for them, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

In February, 1,152 families entered shelters.

The number of families entering shelters has increased by more than 50 percent in the past two years.

Cats accounted for 59 percent of the animals that entered shelters and two-thirds of those that were euthanized.

They also said that because Section 8 vouchers were in short supply, families were entering shelters as a shortcut to obtaining them.

A recent study by the Department of Homeless Services showed that the median length of stay for families entering shelters last summer is even shorter — just over five months.