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As many as eight million dogs enter into animal shelters each year in the U.S. It is estimated that between three and four million of these dogs are euthanized, indicating that any given dog that enters into an average shelter, has roughly 50-50 odds that it will walk out wagging. To battle such bleak survival stats as these, there are small foster operations all over the nation working to rescue and rehabilitate unwanted pets. In today’s feature, Ryan Dawes reports on one such local operation called The Nest.