But they continue to spend days and nights arranging adoptions.
Since its founding in 1944, it has arranged adoptions for about a million dogs and cats, some having measured their stays in years.
The nonprofit shelter arranges adoptions quickly, 40,000 a year, probably more than any place else in the nation.
It also raises disturbing questions about the practice of advertising babies, and accepting fees for arranging adoptions, especially via the Internet.
Since 1990, it has been more difficult for foreigners to arrange official adoptions.
When expanding herds threaten to overpopulate the range, the bureau is supposed to arrange adoptions.
"This will only increase in the future and will mean a radical rethink of how we arrange and support adoptions from care."
I think it was all fixed up by lawyers or whoever arranges adoptions.
They have arranged adoptions for prominent families, even celebrities, and for impoverished ones, too.
She told me she had called a few adoption agencies that arranged international adoptions.