In the article, he calls a large number of the people who don't
want animals killed in the shelter a part of the «criminal element» — including singling out a couple of animal welfare groups that he thinks fit that criteria.
Not exact matches
PETA campaigners said they
wanted to bring attention to the millions of cats and dogs that are
killed each year
in animal shelters.
the idea here is to do what you can to reduce the number of
animals killed in shelters across the USA as well as getting a dog that will be healthy and the kind of pet you
want.
Those dedicated to no -
kill want to end the
killing of healthy and treatable
animals in shelters.
There are an estimated 3 - 4 MILLION cats and dogs
KILLED in animal shelters every year, most simply for
want of homes, yet we continue to produce more than 70,000 additional kittens and puppies EACH DAY.
If HSTB totally stopped bringing
in animals that come from over crowded
kill shelters and took
in only
animals from this county, nothing would change at the local county
shelter and HSTB would be a sanctuary just holding
animals nobody
wants, meanwhile
animals at all the other
shelters they could have rescued from are being euthanized.
For many years, I have
wanted to be able to help
animals across the country that have been abused, abandoned or are
in kill shelters.
I see those pictures all the time of
animals about to get
killed in a
shelter and I know I do not
want to be someone who adds to that population.
Any post about an
animal in need — even one about a healthy cat or dog safely biding its time
in a no -
kill shelter — can spark a barrage of comments that, at best, can be time - consuming to sort through and, at worst, mislead people who truly
want to help the
animal.
The problem is, like regular
shelters, «no
kill» facilities only have so much space and genuinely
want to find each and every
animal in their care a safe, happy forever home.
As a result of a provision similar to CAPA mandating that
shelters must transfer
animals they are planning to
kill to other non-profits which
want to save them, the number of
animals transferred to rescue groups rather than
killed in California went from 12,526 to 58,939 — a 370 % increase, all at no cost to taxpayers.
We
want to become a pillar
in the community and show people that a true no -
kill animal shelter can be successful.»