Sentences with phrase «traditional shelter industry»

The practical lesson that I draw from all this is that it is a mistake for No Kill advocates to see the traditional shelter industry as the enemy, and it is an inaccurate view of history to see No Kill advocates as white knights who had to fight and defeat an industry full of lazy, incompetent people who liked to kill animals.

The fact is that the great majority of the decline in shelter killing that has occurred in the last 50 years — perhaps as much as 90 % of it nationwide — was due to the spay - neuter movement supported by the traditional shelter industry, not due to the No Kill movement.

The true picture is of a terrible situation in 1970 that was made better through determined spay - neuter efforts by people associated with the traditional shelter industry before No Kill even developed.

Much of this was due to No Kill, but some of it was due to the traditional shelter industry reforming itself.

A movement began, supported by the traditional shelter industry and virtually all of the humane organizations, to get people to spay and neuter their pets and start keeping dogs on leash or otherwise under control.

Although No Kill embraces spay / neuter programs, the big campaign to get people to spay and neuter their pets was started by humane advocates and the traditional shelter industry circa 1970, before the No Kill movement existed.

When the No Kill movement first developed a national presence in the mid-1990s, the traditional shelter industry reacted with considerable outrage.

In the late 1990s, some in the traditional shelter industry began to use the concept of «open admission» versus «limited admission» to criticize No Kill.

The leaders of the traditional shelter industry in the 1970s and 1980s had to deal with a crushing pet overpopulation problem, and they were slow to realize that spaying and neutering of pets, which took off in the 1970s, had made a big difference in decreasing shelter intake by the 1990s.