We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to a time when the wholesale slaughter of animals in shelters is viewed as a cruel aberration of the past. We have a choice. We can fully, completely, and without reservation embrace No Kill as our future. Or we can continue to legitimize the two-pronged strategy of failure: adopt a few and kill the rest. It is a choice which history has thrown upon us. We are the generation that questioned the killing. We are the generation that has discovered how to stop it. Will we be the generation that does?
Recent Blog Posts
Turning Back the Clock in CaliforniaIn 1997, the year before the Hayden Act was passed, 576,000 animals were killed in California shelters. In 1999, one year after passage, that number plummeted to 328,000. Those gains will be a thing of the past if Governor Brown is successful in repealing the law.
Read more I Love New York(ers)It was a beautiful sight, the united chorus of hundreds of animal lovers speaking truth to power. I was witnessing the No Kill movement all grown up.
Read more Hayden Fights for the Hayden LawToday, only one state has a holding period lower than California. Many animals are killed before their families have a chance to find them.
Read moreRedemption
Redemption is now the most critically acclaimed book on its topic ever written. Read the reviews and see the awards the book has won.
Redemption is the story of animal sheltering in the United States, a movement that was born of compassion and then lost its way. It is the story of the “No Kill” movement, which says we can and must stop the killing. It is about heroes and villains, betrayal and redemption. And it is about a social movement as noble and just as those that have come before. But most of all, it is a story about believing in the community and trusting in the power of compassion.