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Adoption Medical Education Issue Each year over 3 million in taxes is spent in an effort to control the homeless pet population. When Pawmetto Lifeline began in 1999 there were over 26000 homeless dogs and cats entering municipal shelters in Lexington and Richland Counties and 96 of these same pets were routinely euthanized due to lack of education and resources. The majority of these pets are healthy treatable adoptable pets. With limited resources in the Midlands and the belief that killing a domesticated population in order to control it is wrong the leaders of Pawmetto Lifeline have created a plan that will actually solve the problem.