Garrett enjoys writing about Doodles and believes that dogs can teach humans more about how to live than humans can teach a dog. To adopt a forever friend, K-9 Strays encourages you to bring a filled out adoption application from their website in advance. The rescue also encourages you to bring your family along if you live with them. In 2012, rescue groups placed the number of strays between 20,000 to 50,000. This narrows down to 350 stray dogs per square mile which is an insanely high rate of dogs needing to be rescued.