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Problems at the shelter -- documented by the OSU report, public records and interviews with current and former employees -- include:

1.) Dogs that bite or attack other pets are given a clean slate, and their adoptive families aren't always warned. A program to screen dogs for behavioral problems was disbanded more than a year ago.

2.) O'Quin provided dozens of records that show dogs that had been brought into the shelter for biting were put back up for adoption. "Returned for biting child three times in face," a concerned employee wrote on one file for a 30-pound dog that had bitten a 9-year-old boy on the cheeks and chin. "Currently in foster for two years."

3.) The shelter adopts out pit bulls and pit mixes, telling owners they are "mixed breeds." "Some are returned when vets or landlords inform the adopters what they have," the OSU report says. "People are now coming in because they are looking for pits and heard the shelter was adopting them."