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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  I think No-kill is fabulous and I hope you or anybody doesn't think I am against them. I believe anything is possible if people want it to change and are willing to be part of the fix.
Maybe the site I just posted might also have some other success stories for you...state by state. A quick glance looks like a lot of it is private rescue's and not city rescues.
I do believe cats will have a very difficult time (they are placed in very small cages) if new facilities are not built for them (they have a higher euthanization rate than dogs) for various reasons. |
For myself, I'm digging around to see if this idea can be implemented in more places and what evidence there may be to convince those in charge to take a serious look at it. I don't think you are against them and I hope I haven't said anything that makes it seem that way (but I have been blabbing a lot LOL). I think we're both on the same page about this, but the whole 'kill mentality' is so ingrained that I have to see more to be convinced this is really doable at this time...and, you know, timing is everything.
I looked at my state from the link you posted and there are 2 listings, but both are rescues. I think it's better to look for actual shelters doing no-kill for examples since rescues, I would think, operate with a much different mission than municipal or county shelters. If I'm wrong, please correct me about this. I will look through that link more to see if there are any shelter listings.
The cat issue does make no-kill that much harder. I know that our shelter's kill rate is skewed upwards due to cats. A couple of things I see are that cats simply breed more often than dogs, cats tend to roam freely more often and people tend to let cats just 'do their thing'. Our shelter is loaded with cats and you can find cats free in the paper any day. So yeah, they're a big problem.