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Delaware is NOT Yet a No Kill State

By Nathan J. Winograd | August 14, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Then Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signing a modified version of the No Kill Advocacy Center’s Companion Animal Protection Act into law; a law that the Office of Animal Welfare, the state agency which oversees sheltering in the state, credited with having “improved the quality of care animals receive in shelters and has saved thousands of animals that would have otherwise been euthanized due to outdated policies and practices.” In 2010, Delaware’s brick and mortar shelters,…

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Delaware Mandates Community Cat Sterilization

By Nathan J. Winograd | October 4, 2018 by Nathan J. Winograd

Delaware Gov. John Carney signs the cat bill into law. The State of Delaware has taken another step forward by protecting community cats and making community cat sterilization the preferred method of “animal control” throughout the state. This week, the Governor signed HB235 which mandates that “visibly healthy cats admitted to a shelter, not placed for adoption, and lacking discernible owner identification, are sterilized, vaccinated against rabies, ear-tipped, and returned to a safe location where…

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Legislating No Kill Delaware-Style

By Nathan J. Winograd | July 28, 2016August 13, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Delaware Animal Services, which provides animal control sheltering throughout the State of Delaware, saved 89% of cats, 93% of dogs, and 98% of other animals.

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Delaware Tells PETA to Stop Lying

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 by Nathan J. Winograd

PETA attempts to derail lifesaving laws to help animals.

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How We End Killing in California

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

In order to network him, a volunteer put Mr. Potato Head glasses on Mr. Pickles and snapped his photo to show others how sweet and cute he was. Instead, Mr. Pickles — young, healthy, friendly, already neutered, wearing a collar and little orange bell — was killed by Los Angeles County pound staff who falsely labeled him “feral.” Two weeks ago, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he wanted California to become a No Kill state. I…

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Saving 60,000 Oswalds a Year

By Nathan J. Winograd | December 20, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Today is Oswald’s Gotcha Day. We adopted him five years ago. It was Oswald’s best day ever. Of course, for a dog who is loved, every day is the best day ever. But there are a few that are especially great: that day, the day he was pulled from the pound (one day away from being killed), and September 22, 1998, a day he didn’t even exist yet. On September 22, 1998, California Governor Pete…

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Maddie’s Fund: Making sure “shelters” that kill “don’t look bad” more important than stopping them from killing

By Nathan J. Winograd | December 13, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

2019 was a pretty terrific year for the No Kill movement and next week, I’ll share some of the top stories, new studies, groundbreaking court cases, and more that not only helped fuel its success, but are laying the founding for our forward push towards a certain, and hopefully not too distant, victory. To paraphrase the No Kill Advocacy Center, a No Kill nation is truly within our reach. But it was not without its…

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Co-opting the No Kill Movement

By Nathan J. Winograd | September 25, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

A kitten at the Madison County pound. Over half of the cats who enter the front door go out the back door in garbage bags. The Madison County, VA, pound kills over half the cats it takes in. And yet it calls itself a “No Kill” shelter, assuring people that cats they bring in will be guaranteed a home. And when it kills their cats, it lies to them by claiming they were adopted. Now…

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Michigan just announced it is a No Kill state. It isn’t.

By Nathan J. Winograd | September 10, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

Delaware announced they were the first No Kill state in the country. Now Michigan is saying they are a No Kill state, too, and they did it first. Neither claim is true. Some pounds in Michigan kill more than seven out of 10 cats. And yet some are calling Michigan a No Kill state. The pound in St. Clair County, MI, killed more cats than they placed: 53%. The pound in Berrien County, MI, killed…

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Presidential Candidate Calls for a No Kill Nation

By Nathan J. Winograd | August 20, 2019August 21, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

When a cause becomes so popular that politicians begin to incorporate promises about it into their campaign platform, that cause has arrived. When that politician is a candidate for the President of the United States — such as JuliÃ¡n Castro who is promising the creation of a No Kill nation as part of his wider animal welfare platform — we have truly become a potent force for change. As part of a 19-page plan that…