Animal Shelters and the No Kill Movement

Thesis: Addressing what a No Kill Shelter is and that they should have standards for using specific euthanasia methods, treating “unadoptable” animals, and evaluating the Live Release Rate will help decrease the unnecessary deaths of shelter animals around the world, especially with the help of shelter based programs.

“So while not all shelters can ‘‘afford’’ to keep the animals, they could find people who will foster the animals until adoption, or some other, positive alternative.” (www.neenink.com) “Why, if an animal is not a harm to others, should it be killed without any choice? The animals can’t speak for themselves. Their fates depend on us to be their voice”. “Are you up for the challenge? I know I am”.(www.neenink.com) This shows that the issue of pet abandonment is that people sometimes need a companion to help them through their life and if the people of the world keep on putting their animals in a shelter, then they end up getting put down then one day there won’t be a special furry friend by your side. Some people who go through mental depression get so scared that one day they might commit suicide but the animals stop them from doing

I’m an animal lover so I think this is horrible, just imagine how many of those animals die in those shelters a year.

Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in pursuit of ending such criminal means, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the horrific crimes of animal deaths in shelters. It is no secret that this world has become infused with problems that have extended from one side of the globe to the other. Amongst these problems lies a terrible truth: nearly every year, sums of almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these vast numbers, half will be

Overpopulation of cats and dogs is a big problem in animal shelters all over the country. Shelters give an unrealistic time period for adoption, which sadly falls too fast for many animals. A larger number of these animals die not because they are sick or have any behavior issues, although that is a big problem within the shelters. Simply because shelters don’t have the resources to take care of them. Animals, just like people have emotions and when someone is locked in a small space emotion tend to go crazy. A dog could act totally different in a cage than out in a home with a family. An estimated 17 million dogs and cats were killed in America’s shelters every year simply because they didn’t have homes. I believe there is a difference between

The public views shelters with a no-kill policy as more humane or civilized; however, this is not always the case. A no-kill shelter probably started as a wonderful idea, but was soon turned into a very bad thing. The idea of a no-kill shelter is that any animals that is well-tempered enough or healthy enough to be adopted out, would be. The negative aspect of no-kill shelters is that once they run out of room to place the animals, a few things start happening. When shelters are filled to capacity, they are forced to turn away animals in need. These animals that are turned away are left on the streets or in the hand or irresponsible owners who cannot properly take

Okay, first off, there are approximately 7.6 million animals that enter shelters every year in the U.S alone, as stated by the ASPCA. That evidence alone makes a case

Did you know that some animal shelters kill dogs if they don’t sell well? No, well then this chapter will teach you about no-kill shelters and shelters that kill dogs. It will also cover how the shelters are different from each other. So now it’s time to start.

First we will cover the topic of pet overpopulation. It is estimated by The Humane Society of the United States that approximately six to eight million pets are brought in to animal shelters every year. Sadly, more than half of these pets are euthanized due to overpopulation. That means that these pets are being “killed” purely because there isn’t enough room to house them. Animal shelters are packed full of adoptable animals just looking for a place to call home. These animals rely on us humans to save their lives, literally. It is irresponsible to allow your pet

Kill shelters and animal abuse are a big problem in society. Animals are equal to people and they should be treated just the same. Animals do not deserve to be treated harshly and they also do not deserve to live in horrible conditions. I believe that animals have as much of a right as humans do, to be free of labor.

As proposed by Heinz “I have volunteered at both no kill shelters and traditional shelters. In my experience, the no kill shelters tend to put down the traditional shelters for euthanizing animals. Likewise, the traditional shelters have criticized no-kill shelters.” There are a lot of fights that break out between kill-shelters and no-kill shelters. “One even went as far as to say that, until all shelters can be no-kill shelters, NO

Animal shelters are facilities “devoted to the temporary housing and care of homeless and unwanted pets” (Spector). They are the only places that willingly take care of these animals and find them loving homes. There have always been people dedicating themselves to protecting animals, but not with shelters as organized, professional, and successful as today. With about 165 million dogs and cats living in homes, twenty percent of them came from animal shelters (Winograd xi).

Animal shelters all across the United States are killing unadopted animals. Are you aware of this? As you have seen, on the news or social media, but Pit bulls are the number one most feared dog in the U.S. . Human’s do not understand is that Pit bulls are not born vicious, they are raised to be vicious. This is similar to a baby is not born smart, you need to raise the baby in a smart way. Overall, animals that live in an Animal Shelters, do not deserve to die because they are viewed differently by different humans, should “vicious” dogs be put in animal shelters and eventually die of staying there too long or staying in the shelter until dying of old age?

Life should always take priority over convenience. No kill shelters would provide a solution to the numbers of animals that get killed/euthanized every year. People need to realize the kill count is continuing to go up without no kill shelters. No kill is a declaration.’ Increasingly, the practices of both humane societies and municipal animal control agencies are out of step with public sentiment. Today, most Americans hold the humane treatment of animals as a personal value, which is reflected in our laws, cultural practices, the proliferation of organizations founded for animal protection, increased per capita spending on animal care, and great advancements in veterinary medicine. (PetSafe Coupons ,1)But the agencies that the public expects to protect animals are instead killing some two million animals annually’. (https://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/no-kill-declaration.html) . This is part of the no kill preamble. This explains why and how the making of no kill shelters protects animals. This provides lifesaving alternatives to the killing of animals by shelters that have existed for many decades. These nonlethal programs have proven that the killing can be ended. Many have realized that the killing can and should be brought to an end. It is up to us to work even individually and together to make shelter models that have already saved over tens of thousands of animals in many communities. If we

ASPCA states that there are a lot of animal euthanized in shelters in the United States every year. Many of those animals are being killed for old age, bad behaviors, or for no reason due to the capacities the shelter can only take. Many of the animals that come in are not yet spay/neuter which only means there can be more pups or kittens out there being either in happy homes or dying in the street. This newsletter helps us understand many of the animals coming in have a big chance of being killed for no reason due to the capacity of the shelter, or its behavior. By behavior, it means the animal has a history of aggression by being mistreated by the previous owner reason of kill would be for the safety of the people. This helps us understand on why the animal shelters are being over populated and the effects on the animals.