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@murve: oh dear! I had thought PTS stood for post traumatic stress and now Im feeling rather silly. Do you mind if I PM you for more information? @aussielover: Thankyou for the attempt and sorry if it did feel a bit random but appreciate you had a go anyways. To shed some perspective we're looking at it in the way of improving the way that potential owners can find potential rescue dogs, what can be improved in this area and how to facilitate this better and that is why the questions are oriented (even though they seem random) to where and how a person will meet their dog. The question of "What do you look for in a dog" was us attempting to know if there were certain characteristics we can really centre on showing if we were to put up search filters in a site, or make a documentary or even journaling a dogs story. "How do you choose your companion" does actualyl sound like the previosu question, sorry about that but it was actually meant to mean "what makes you decide to buy that specific dog?" i.e. if you're looking for a specific breed what makes you finally choose that one specific puppy from a litter...for example...hopefully I'm making sense and not just rambling...Im rambling arnt I? I'll try to reword that but based on your feedback I've put (dog) in brackets in the question. We'll try to improve on the wording on that one. As for euthanasia/euthanisation it seems to be the case of semantics and we'll consider whether we need to shift it but fortunately everyone understands where we're getting at and at worse I can hide behind wiktionary (it's in there I swear!) Thanks for the feedback!

Me either. Hi guys, Sorry for the lag in response, I had to go out but thankyou for those who have taken the time to reply - Surveys down, thats very embarassing on my end and was definitely not what I intended. Due to my free account with sogosurvey, theres actually a response limit, the survey has been up since saturday and ...well I should have seen that coming. I'll try and find a new survey provider but until then apologies to those who wanted to take the survey but cant seem to. - Murve: thankyou for taking time out in providing that insight, we are new to the whole scene so no we wern't aware of PTS at atll and will look into it any new information helps and we appreciate it. - In regards to the parent or non parent question in the survey. We are students and this is by no means the perfect survey, however we put consideration for each question and if they did end up insulting or offending anyone I do apologies as that was never our intention. The thought process for that specific question was identifying whether the person was the decision maker of his or her household. In hindsight it would probably have been better to ask if they were the decision maker and we will make this adjustment in future surveys unless theres a different recommendation? Thankyou for the feedback though. - "The topic is about unnecessary euthanasia & this alone can mean many things to many people. There are people who would save anything without considering the dog,its future & its needs & how well it will fit into a home & at the same time the fact said dog could sit in the shelter/rescue for years ." Sorry Im not sure how to quote. You are quite right, in short this survey doesn't really do it justice and it could be as long as a thousand pages and still not capture all the multifaceted issues with the problem, but this is where we're starting and we welcome feedback or recommendations you have. - @ Decadence: Hello! I use to be an auditor if that means anything (probably not) but I am aware of privacy concerns that you have " How is our personal information going to used? Purely for educational purposes, should any shelters request access to the results in hopes to further their research then we will be happy to share it with them How will it be stored? Excel spread sheet on me and my team mates private computers Will it be shared with any other persons/companies? Purely educational and non profit only, we are not selling anything we have no intent besides that of furthering help for the cause Will it be destroyed after your research is complete? No as it'll be part of the documentation of how we have come to our work and decision making. Information is purely anonymous, there is no IP tracking and the questions are very generla" Thankyou for your concerns though and hopefully that helps...not that the survey is working currently ergh! Thanks to the people who managed to fill out the survey while it was working though! I'll try to quickly put another up

Thankyou kindly for that german_shep_fan. Every bits helps us! I've also fixed the link (hopefully)...I'll leave the second one just in case...

Hello! Nice to meet you all, I'm a student from a design college and we've been told to choose a cause we felt passionate about. My team chose to research into ways to reduce unnecessary euthanisation of dogs, and depending on the results we obtain from the survey we plan to try and draft an interactive website, documentaries and even illustrations. We've also been in touch with some local shelters and plan to somehow affiliate ourselves with them, anything produced from this assignment we plan to share and give back to the community in hopes that it can benefit the issue even in the smallest way. I know that people don't tend to look too kindly on surveys but it'd be greatly appreciated if you have the spare time. It's also relatively short! *EDIT Sorry about the link not working, we hit a response limit on the prior survey* Link If that doesn't work --> http://www.sogosurvey.com/k/SsRUPYsRsPsPsP Thankyou guys in advance, Jenny P.s. I've run this survey by one of the mods Troy, and he's greenlighted me posting here so hopefully I'm not doing anything against the rules