Myth: No -
kill sheltering means an increased length of stay, causing animals to languish in the shelter environment.
No
Kill shelters mean «being warehoused» and «can be far worse than death!»
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More animal farms of any scale in Oakland
means more animals
killed, more animals dumped at the
shelter, [x] and opening the floodgates for slaughter hobbyists to practice their craft, [xi] make mistakes,
kill animals and cause needless suffering.
As a
means of psychological control, nearly three - fourths of pet - owning women who entered
shelters report that their abuser has either injured or
killed their pet or threatened to do so.
This
means that no animal is turned away — unlike «no
kill»
shelters that do turn away animals.
These are the types of changes that will lead to a no
kill shelter system, because less animals being bred and born in your city
means less will be tossed away into what amounts to «death camps», not
shelters.
This restriction also applies to dogs in Victorian
shelters and pounds, with any dog identified as a restricted breed unable to be rehomed (which
means that regardless of a dog's temperament it will be
killed).
The volume of cats and kittens in pounds and
shelters during the breeding season
means that many are
killed due to minor curable health problems such as flu and ringworm, or socialization issues such as being too timid or too assertive.
When an animal enters a no -
kill shelter, does that
mean it will stay until it finds a new home?
Generally, the no -
kill threshold for a community is considered to be 90 percent, Best Friends says, which
means nine out of 10 dogs leave the
shelter alive.
Sending the cats to a
shelter almost always
means a death sentence, as nationally, seven out of 10 cats entering
shelters - and almost all feral cats - are
killed there.
A lot of well -
meaning people think that mandatory spay / neuter laws will help end the
killing of dogs and cats in our
shelters.
If you live in one of the Ohio counties that still uses CO gas for
shelter animals, contact your local county commission and your veterinarian and urge them to stop the use of this cruel and inhumane
means of
killing animals.
CO gas chambers would be elevated by HB 27Â as not only an acceptable
means of
killing shelter animals but one sanctioned and even preferred by the state.
Sure you can create pocket communities of no
kill shelters, but unless those efforts show up as an over all reduction in
kill rate on a national scale, it just
means the problem is being handed to someone else.
You're also saving a life because every animal adopted
means one more animal the rescue can pull from a
kill shelter or take directly from the surrendering owner to prevent it going to a
kill shelter.
«No -
kill» does not
mean that:
shelters that haven't reached no -
kill, and their employees, are willing killers, or that dangerous or sick animals will be released into the community, or that
shelters will start warehousing animals indefinitely.
This
means that for a community to be considered «no -
kill,» all of its
shelters and animal welfare facilities responsible for animal control intake must be saving 90 % or more, collectively, of the animals who enter their system.
Creating no -
kill cities simply
means that healthy or treatable pets will not be
killed for the sake of making more space in
shelters.
We all want what's best for the cats, and that
means keeping them out of
shelters where they will most likely be
killed.
No -
kill means saving
shelter animals» lives every day, as well as following disasters like Hurricane Harvey.
The selected
shelters committed to an official Feral Cat Protection Policy, which
means that they will stop impounding feral cats — who are almost always
killed in
shelters — and instead support Trap - Neuter - Return, only accepting feral cats to divert them to TNR or
Shelter - Neuter - Return programs.
Adopting from a
shelter means that you are directly saving a life, or your adoption from a no -
kill rescue organization frees up space for another animal to move in, thus saving their life.
This
means that for a community to be considered «no -
kill,» all of its
shelters and animal welfare facilities responsible for animal control intake must be saving 90 percent or more, collectively, of the animals who enter their system.
«The goal is to transform the city of Los Angeles into no -
kill, which
means that 90 % of the dogs / cats who need
sheltering will have a positive outcome,» the agency's spokeswoman Sara Ebrahimi said.
We are proud to be a «Loving, Caring, Protecting», No -
Kill shelter, which
means that animals stay with us until they find their forever home... click to read more.
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Kill communities save all healthy and treatable pets.
That
means there are still nearly 5,500 dogs and cats
killed every day in
shelters, just because they don't have safe places to call home.
This
means by January 1, 2011, no county or city in the state can use carbon monoxide gas chambers to
kill shelter animals.
Under this version of H.B. 788, carbon monoxide gas chambers along with decompression chambers and use of exhaust from gasoline engines and would not be allowed as
means to
kill shelter animals.
The response from Best Friends to those naysayers was pretty much what the title of this blog, a riff on a famous movie quote, suggests: Saving lives isn't rocket science and your credentials and the letters after your name don't
mean a thing if you are not using them to save more lives and end the
killing in
shelters.
As many of you may know, the Animal Rescue League of Berks County has been exploring the feasibility of whether our organization could become a no -
kill shelter given the fact that we are the sole provider of animal control services for Berks County, and we are an open admissions
shelter,
meaning that we do not turn pets away regardless of why they come through our doors.
Giving funding to these so called «inferior groups» like dog and cat rescues (that should never be mislabeled inferior)
means alot to those dogs and cats sitting in
kill shelters that nd rescue everyday and don't care about what might happen or not happen in the future!
Restrictive breeding ordinances, possession limits, burdensome cat licensing and breeder permit laws, as well as restraints on the display / exhibition of animals, have been presented as a
means to reduce the number of animals being
killed by
shelters or to alleviate animal suffering.
In a world where most dogs and cats were intact and a high percentage of them were free - roaming,
shelter killing was about the only
means that communities had to contain pet population.
Getting animals into successful outcomes quickly is essential for lifesaving success.These
shelters (among other successful
shelters) focus less on «not
killing» animals and more on SAVING them - which
means creating successful outcomes quickly for the animals that come into the
shelter.
There seems to be persistent confusion about what the no -
kill movement advocates for, what no -
kill means and doesn't
mean, and the feasibility of no -
kill as a comprehensive approach to
sheltering.
As the film demonstrates, we now have a solution to
shelter killing and it is not difficult, expensive, or beyond practical
means to achieve.
Statistics for cats across
shelters in North America tend towards a 90 %
kill rate, which
means healthy, cute, purebred, cats are dying because people are going to breeders and pet - stores instead of
shelters.
I think there is a way for a
shelter or group of
shelters to become No -
Kill without having kennels full fo
mean, unadoptable or sick animals and to be able to continue to accept pets, but it'll take a lot of brainstorming.
But, what it
means is that if you catch the cat and bring it into MADACC, for whatever reason, the family will likely never come to see if the cat is here (often they fear the cat has been
killed by a car or wildlife and feel there is no reason to look) and that could result in the cat being euthanized due to health or temperament in the
shelter.
We are proudly a no -
kill shelter, which
means we keep healthy adoptable cats alive as long as it takes for them to be adopted.
But feral cats aren't socialized to humans, so they can't be adopted —
meaning virtually 100 percent of feral cats brought to
shelters or pounds are
killed.
Citizens often don't understand the rate of
shelter killing in their own communities, or understand what being a No
Kill Community
means.
Austin Pets Alive's pledge to turn Austin into a no -
kill city —
meaning that 90 percent or more of the animals in local
shelters are adopted out, rather than euthanized — did not just save...
Amazing progress, but that
means there are still over 9,000 dogs and cats
killed in
shelters each day.
The selected
shelters have all committed to an official Feral Cat Protection Policy, which
means that they will stop impounding and
killing feral cats and support TNR, a humane program for outdoor cats.
Our ultimate wish would be empty
shelters —
meaning that no animal is abandoned and no
shelter would need to
kill one animal to make room for another.
That's incredible progress, but it also
means that hat
means there are still nearly 5,500 dogs and cats
killed every day in
shelters, just because they don't have safe places to call home.