A Michael Broad Blog
Despite the fact that the number of domestic cats and dogs in America has doubled since the 1970s, the number of these animals that have been killed (‘euthanized’) at shelters since then has decreased from 16 million to as low as 1.5 million annually. Nathan Winograd, the world’s expert on no-kill animal shelters and …
Governor Gavin Newsom has dedicated $50 million to the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program to give California’s animal shelters the training and resources that they need to meet the state’s no-kill goal in five years. This is the announcement on the Twitter feed of the Office of the Governor of California (see below). …
North Carolina (NC) currently has a relatively poor record of killing cats and dogs at their animal shelters. In other words their shelters have a higher kill rate than all other states bar two: California and Texas. This means that they have either (1) more unwanted companion animals than in most other states and …
I have enormous respect for PETA but the author, Chris Holbein, of their article: Why I Won’t Work at a ‘No-Kill’ Shelter, has got it wrong in my opinion. Chris makes the obviously valid point that it is very sad and almost inhumane to keep cats and dogs in cages for ages while they …
A consultancy non-profit organisation called Target Zero are having great success in reducing the kill rate at animal shelters. They work with shelters providing them with information as to how to build a shelter with a 90+ percent shelter save rate. A no-kill shelter is one which kills less than 10% of the cats …
“No-kill” policies often do more harm than good in ending the cycle of companion-animal homelessness…. PETA says that when shelters become no-kill without addressing the root cause of the problem they make things worse because cats and dogs die an unpleasant death rather than being euthanised. They die an unpleasant death because of various …
PETA is against no-kill animal shelters and rescue groups. They argue that they actually slowly kill animals. They argue that the animals die in miserable conditions or because the shelters are full (as the video shows), unwanted cats and dogs are cruelly killed, one way and other, by people who don’t want them. They …
Los Angeles appears to be striving for that ultimate goal in animal shelter management: no-kill. It takes imagination, commitment, and lots of effort to bring down the kill rate at animal shelters but it is feasible although many people will probably say it isn’t. The general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS) Brenda …
