If the animal is really lucky, they dump them somewhere up on the property. I think the only reason I have Mrs. Kitty McKitty is that someone made triple sure she was very very socialized and then fed her extremely well on my front porch. She's the only one that ever started just walking around my feet the moment I stepped out of my door.

Molly dog was pretty friendly but that's just because the people across the way spent 4 weeks taming her. She was a good hunting dog. Ultimately, after her pups arrived and she got them grown a bit, all she wanted was a warm spot to sleep when she wanted to and a dish of food and freedom. She died with tumors of some sort about a year after her pups were born.

But anyway yeah ... most of the animals get dumped down at the intersection of 3 roads just a bit away from our drive and it's a long way from the street to the house. and besides the animals really don't want to be taken in. they want to go home.