Officials on mission to save strays

 
By Bryan Dean
Published: April 15, 2008

Christy Counts knows people don't want to put faces to the numbers.

During fiscal year 2007, Oklahoma City euthanized 19,365 dogs and cats — most of them guilty of nothing more than being unwanted.

Counts, president of the Oklahoma Humane Society , said people have a hard time with the thought that dozens of dogs and cats, just like the pets they love, are being killed each day.

"It's easier to turn aw...


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