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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  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. |
I would either write or call BF to see if they can give you recommendations for other no-kill shelters. I believe they would know better than most and maybe you could get lucky and get someone who really understands all of the pittfalls of a city shelter going through this. I really get the impression but I have never called them, but BF is very open to helping educate organizations etc.
I didn't think you thought that about me but sometimes when someone keeps bringing up what could be thought of as "negative" thoughts on something as sensitive as this I felt I better put my disclaimer out there..hahaha
Yes I believe with cats it is a large problem.