This Girl Explained The Difference Between A ‘Kill’ And ‘No-Kill’ Animal Shelter And It’s Eye-Opening
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While most of us love and care for our furry friends, not all of us are prepared to go that extra mile and adopt one from a shelter when we finally decide to make the commitment of getting one. That doesn’t mean we don’t want to help though. Even if people are not ready to go for adoption yet, some of them choose to opt for volunteering and always run into the same dilemma – what shelter to choose. While private shelters are the most popular choice because of being “no-kill”, this Twitter user took an extra step to explain why that may not be the best approach and it’s eye-opening!
This girl figured out a rather obvious but usually misunderstood difference between animal shelters
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And took to Twitter to explain it to the good people of the Internet
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People were thankful for the knowledge she shared
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A lot of the no-kill shelters help the kill shelters by taking in dogs that would otherwise be hard to adopt. They understand the kill shelters have limited room. To understand better, watch Amanda to the Rescue. She often helps the California Kill Shelters by relocating dogs to Washington State because they are more readily adoptable there.
Yes! "Kill shelters" do not just automatically kill animals that have been in their system too long. Many have extensive foster programs and agreements with other shelters across their state or even across the country. Often, when you adopt an animal, you are required to spay or neuter because they just can't afford the procedure for every animal, but they will pay extra when they can to get an animal to another facility instead of putting it down. Even "kill" shelters go out of their way not to put animals down for no good reason and they really need support to continue taking care of neglected and abandoned animals.
Yes, but millions of healthy animals are euthanized every year.
she and others like hers, are very specialized rescue organizations, which take in smaller number. larger 'no-kill', like the Humane Society, generally take the easiest adoptable animals, leaving County funded shelters with the more difficult cases and great numbers per day. Everyone is doing their best with what they have, but the demonetization of County shelters has hurt their ability to get funds and adoptions. My dad volunteers at our County shelter and works like mad to get the tougher cases family ready. And it breaks his heart to hear people giving them shit for being a 'kill-shelter'. People don't understand the economics or politics around shelters. All they hear is animals will die and don't understand how it actually happens.
This post needs more boosting! All the Loves and all the upvotes and shares! ESPECIALLY during this time of year! How many of you out there in the great wide web are getting rid of your dog or cat to make room for a new Christmas puppy or kitten? Adopt don't shop! Also support your local animal shelter this holiday season by bringing in some food, old blankets and treats and toys for the animals there! Thank you that is all! Have a good day! :-)
I get what this post is saying yet I do still think there is something wrong with killing a healthy animal just for it not being adopted fast enough. Where I live (Netherlands) there are no kill shelters and we also dont say no to dumped/stray animals. So I dont understand why they dont do that everywhere. How I see it, is that the way the system is set up in kill-shelter-countries just isnt the best system.
So if you have 100 kennels and 150 dogs, what do you propose?
Build 50 more kennels and then you have 200 dogs..........our local shelter has done a great job at becoming as close to no kill as you can get. So we are saying no to cats and kittens, no to dogs that owners are looking to surrender - for whatever the reason, good or bad, and creating waiting lists that are 20 pages long. I am against killing, I am against suffering, I am against the hate speech thrown at "open shelters" who are just doing what they can to save those they can and relieve the suffering for as many as they can. And I speak from experience - I have my share at 30 cats and 11 dogs - all rescues, all spayed & neutered, all kept inside, all up to date on vet care, all fed quality food - how many do you have?
Or look to other shelters in the region if they still have place.
Build 50 more kennels... easier said than done... what if you don't have funds to build 50 more kennels, or the space... shelters aren't tardis's.. they have limited space and money. What should they do, start hanging kennels from the ceiling?? Or maybe they should cut the size of the kennels in half, so the dogs/cats can barely move around...
@JudyTarr, why are you saying no to cats and kittens? It's dangerous for any animals to be out on the street because of cars, but it's worst for black cats because people think they're bad luck and try to kill them. Also, cats and kittens are alive animals too.
Retail rescue is a business which is growing. That is why unadoptable animals are pulled and transported around. Best Friends nearly "saved them all" at which point they panicked apparently because they went and bought dogs at auction from the same breeders who used to breed for pet stores, but now they breed for unregulated retail rescue. Kim Kavin wrote a book about it called The Dog Merchants.
@CristinaUhlir, not everyone in Asia does that. It's only some bad people. Stop being racist.
50 more kennels, an adoption drive, and a neutering initiative
Building 50 more kennels should solve that.
P.S. The USA is not the worst country in the world. All governments should denounce all Oriental countries where these atrocities are happening. Those evil monsters do not just eat dogs and cats, they DELIBERATELLY heinously torture them: boil them - ALIVE, burn them to death with a torch (no carbon monoxide fumes to render them unconscious), cut their limbs off when ALIVE. Please understand, human rights, social justice will never be achieved without animal rights. Get in touch with the animal welfare organizations and speak out against cruelty to animals - sentient beings, sign petitions, join protests, volunteer, contact your government representatives who do virtually nothing to stop heinous animal abuses; do something, please.
A lot of the no-kill shelters help the kill shelters by taking in dogs that would otherwise be hard to adopt. They understand the kill shelters have limited room. To understand better, watch Amanda to the Rescue. She often helps the California Kill Shelters by relocating dogs to Washington State because they are more readily adoptable there.
Yes! "Kill shelters" do not just automatically kill animals that have been in their system too long. Many have extensive foster programs and agreements with other shelters across their state or even across the country. Often, when you adopt an animal, you are required to spay or neuter because they just can't afford the procedure for every animal, but they will pay extra when they can to get an animal to another facility instead of putting it down. Even "kill" shelters go out of their way not to put animals down for no good reason and they really need support to continue taking care of neglected and abandoned animals.
Yes, but millions of healthy animals are euthanized every year.
she and others like hers, are very specialized rescue organizations, which take in smaller number. larger 'no-kill', like the Humane Society, generally take the easiest adoptable animals, leaving County funded shelters with the more difficult cases and great numbers per day. Everyone is doing their best with what they have, but the demonetization of County shelters has hurt their ability to get funds and adoptions. My dad volunteers at our County shelter and works like mad to get the tougher cases family ready. And it breaks his heart to hear people giving them shit for being a 'kill-shelter'. People don't understand the economics or politics around shelters. All they hear is animals will die and don't understand how it actually happens.
This post needs more boosting! All the Loves and all the upvotes and shares! ESPECIALLY during this time of year! How many of you out there in the great wide web are getting rid of your dog or cat to make room for a new Christmas puppy or kitten? Adopt don't shop! Also support your local animal shelter this holiday season by bringing in some food, old blankets and treats and toys for the animals there! Thank you that is all! Have a good day! :-)
I get what this post is saying yet I do still think there is something wrong with killing a healthy animal just for it not being adopted fast enough. Where I live (Netherlands) there are no kill shelters and we also dont say no to dumped/stray animals. So I dont understand why they dont do that everywhere. How I see it, is that the way the system is set up in kill-shelter-countries just isnt the best system.
So if you have 100 kennels and 150 dogs, what do you propose?
Build 50 more kennels and then you have 200 dogs..........our local shelter has done a great job at becoming as close to no kill as you can get. So we are saying no to cats and kittens, no to dogs that owners are looking to surrender - for whatever the reason, good or bad, and creating waiting lists that are 20 pages long. I am against killing, I am against suffering, I am against the hate speech thrown at "open shelters" who are just doing what they can to save those they can and relieve the suffering for as many as they can. And I speak from experience - I have my share at 30 cats and 11 dogs - all rescues, all spayed & neutered, all kept inside, all up to date on vet care, all fed quality food - how many do you have?
Or look to other shelters in the region if they still have place.
Build 50 more kennels... easier said than done... what if you don't have funds to build 50 more kennels, or the space... shelters aren't tardis's.. they have limited space and money. What should they do, start hanging kennels from the ceiling?? Or maybe they should cut the size of the kennels in half, so the dogs/cats can barely move around...
@JudyTarr, why are you saying no to cats and kittens? It's dangerous for any animals to be out on the street because of cars, but it's worst for black cats because people think they're bad luck and try to kill them. Also, cats and kittens are alive animals too.
Retail rescue is a business which is growing. That is why unadoptable animals are pulled and transported around. Best Friends nearly "saved them all" at which point they panicked apparently because they went and bought dogs at auction from the same breeders who used to breed for pet stores, but now they breed for unregulated retail rescue. Kim Kavin wrote a book about it called The Dog Merchants.
@CristinaUhlir, not everyone in Asia does that. It's only some bad people. Stop being racist.
50 more kennels, an adoption drive, and a neutering initiative
Building 50 more kennels should solve that.
P.S. The USA is not the worst country in the world. All governments should denounce all Oriental countries where these atrocities are happening. Those evil monsters do not just eat dogs and cats, they DELIBERATELLY heinously torture them: boil them - ALIVE, burn them to death with a torch (no carbon monoxide fumes to render them unconscious), cut their limbs off when ALIVE. Please understand, human rights, social justice will never be achieved without animal rights. Get in touch with the animal welfare organizations and speak out against cruelty to animals - sentient beings, sign petitions, join protests, volunteer, contact your government representatives who do virtually nothing to stop heinous animal abuses; do something, please.