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Shelters in Serbia are full. People adopt locally and abroad, however the problem keeps growing. How do we start solving it at a scale required?

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The room moved quickly from the symptom (full shelters) to the underlying loop: adoptions alone do not help while the inflow of newly abandoned animals goes unmeasured and unblocked. Much of the discussion designed a public-data and oversight system, with registration, sterilization, and penalties as the "plug" and monthly municipal reporting as the verification layer. A persistent thread questioned who runs such a system when reliance on the state has not worked, leading toward an independent oversight body with built-in accountability (term limits, conflict-of-interest disclosure, removal powers). Late in the session, attention narrowed to a concrete tension: which few metrics best reveal real success without overwhelming citizens.

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People could try drafting a one-page mock monthly shelter report using a small set of candidate metrics (return rate, average stay, capacity fill) to test whether it stays both honest and easy to read.

Updated 6/26/2026

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