Small shelters around the world, even in well-developed countries, are overcrowded with cats and dogs that need food, medical care, adoptive “forever homes,” and spaying/neutering to decrease the birth rate among unwanted pets. These small shelters rely on donations from local communities, which require ongoing, exhaustive fundraisers and  from larger organization, which offer low return on the donors’ funds owing to their overhead and bureaucracy, and which themselves rely on enduring, expensive fundraisers.