Animals4Life
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Wanted to spark the interest of everyone out there interested in helping to reform our Animal Shelter into a No Kill shelter. Is everyone aware of the statistics of our Tri-County Shelter? Let me just give you a statistic......10%
That is the % of how many animals make it back out of the shelter. Why is it that killing in our shelter is still occuring at rates in excess of 90%? Is it because there are too many animals? Is it because there are not enough homes? Is it because of irresponsible people? Is it because we don't have enough mandatory laws like cat licensing? Is it because the animals aren't adoptable? I believe we as a county and as a society have been conditioned to believe those are the reasons but they are not. Most are killed for one reason-FAILURE!!! A failure to learn from the past. A failure to implement the programs and services that saves lives. A failure of caring. We have a choice. We can fully and completely, without reservation, embrace No Kill as our future. Or we can continue to legitimize the two-prong strategy of failure: adopt a few and kill the rest. It is a choice which history has thrown
upon us. We are the generation that questioned the killing. We are the generation that has discovered how to stop it. I want to be the generation that does stop it!!! Anyone out there want to join forces?
That is the % of how many animals make it back out of the shelter. Why is it that killing in our shelter is still occuring at rates in excess of 90%? Is it because there are too many animals? Is it because there are not enough homes? Is it because of irresponsible people? Is it because we don't have enough mandatory laws like cat licensing? Is it because the animals aren't adoptable? I believe we as a county and as a society have been conditioned to believe those are the reasons but they are not. Most are killed for one reason-FAILURE!!! A failure to learn from the past. A failure to implement the programs and services that saves lives. A failure of caring. We have a choice. We can fully and completely, without reservation, embrace No Kill as our future. Or we can continue to legitimize the two-prong strategy of failure: adopt a few and kill the rest. It is a choice which history has thrown
upon us. We are the generation that questioned the killing. We are the generation that has discovered how to stop it. I want to be the generation that does stop it!!! Anyone out there want to join forces?