The truth about "No Kill"
Many, many shelters are jumping on the "No Kill" bandwagon to try and increase the amount of money and traffic which comes into their shelter.
If you read the ads for many rescue groups, animals are pulled from "high kill" shelters to come into rescue and really need homes. The thing which really bothers me about the whole no kill/high kill verbage, is the dogs and cats are still dead. Dogs and cats are euthanized every month in "No kill" shelters with claims they were unadoptable. Now maybe they are not killed in the same numbers, but they are still dead. It really is that simple.
In some of my reading, I came across a great website, http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/ which addresses many of these issues I am speaking of. I subscribe to this newsletter and was checking out the many buttons on the page.
When I got to the FAQ page, I read this answer to a question about finding a no-kill shelter in your area. It sums the whole thing up pretty well and I quote: "You can find a local No Kill shelter through Google. Please keep in mind that as a result of public pressure, some shelters are adopting the language of No Kill but not the programs and services which save lives. As a result, they may call themselves No Kill but may be killing as they have always done, but unfairly reclassifying the animals as "unadoptable." Or, they may have a narrow, overly restrictive definition of "adoptable" which condemns too many animals to death. To determine whether your local shelter is truly No Kill, we have created a matrix of those illnesses and injuries which would fall under savable animals. You can find the matrix by clicking here."
Cruise around and do some reading. Don't take what everyone tells you to be the truth, to actually be the truth. You may become enlightened.
If you read the ads for many rescue groups, animals are pulled from "high kill" shelters to come into rescue and really need homes. The thing which really bothers me about the whole no kill/high kill verbage, is the dogs and cats are still dead. Dogs and cats are euthanized every month in "No kill" shelters with claims they were unadoptable. Now maybe they are not killed in the same numbers, but they are still dead. It really is that simple.
In some of my reading, I came across a great website, http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/ which addresses many of these issues I am speaking of. I subscribe to this newsletter and was checking out the many buttons on the page.
When I got to the FAQ page, I read this answer to a question about finding a no-kill shelter in your area. It sums the whole thing up pretty well and I quote: "You can find a local No Kill shelter through Google. Please keep in mind that as a result of public pressure, some shelters are adopting the language of No Kill but not the programs and services which save lives. As a result, they may call themselves No Kill but may be killing as they have always done, but unfairly reclassifying the animals as "unadoptable." Or, they may have a narrow, overly restrictive definition of "adoptable" which condemns too many animals to death. To determine whether your local shelter is truly No Kill, we have created a matrix of those illnesses and injuries which would fall under savable animals. You can find the matrix by clicking here."
Cruise around and do some reading. Don't take what everyone tells you to be the truth, to actually be the truth. You may become enlightened.
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