Let’s celebrate when communities reach 90th percentile save rates. Let’s celebrate the fact that better than one new community per week crossed that milestone in 2012. Let’s encourage others to do the same. And then let’s encourage them to push on.
Should it be illegal for a rescue group to kill an animal if another rescue group is willing to save the animal’s life? Yes.
If we agree that shelters should not kill in the face of a rescue alternative, why don’t we agree that a rescue should not kill in the face of a rescue alternative?
Together, not only will we save lives; but we will create a future where every animal will be respected and cherished, and where every individual life will be protected and revered. Happy new year.
Animal lovers call Davidson County, North Carolina’s shelter “savage,” a “disgrace,” “disgusting” and “horrific.” What does HSUS call it? A “shelter we love.”
Despite a 95% save rate, Josh Cromer is setting his sights even higher.
If other communities can do achieve No Kill, why can’t Norfolk? The short answer is it can: when it stops listening to the political death cult that is PETA.
An expose by a local news station has uncovered that its humane law enforcement division is allowing abused animals to die all over New York City.
The No Kill Equation provides a humane, life-affirming means of responding to every type of animal entering a shelter, and every type of need those animals might have.
Animal rescuers and shelter volunteers are already donating their time, their energy, their resources and their love to make our world a better place. They shouldn’t have to sacrifice their emotional well-being, too.