I do the same thing with cats.
Every year in our small county (county, not country) almost 20,000 stray and unwanted cats and dogs get put to death.
That is un-f**kin' believable to me in our supposedly advanced modern society.
...that we actually pay people with tax dollars to pretty much do nothing but kill domestic animals by the truckload.
It's no fault of their own, they didn't ask to be overbred or abandoned.