Yes, and some have even gone so far as to define ``adoptable'' as those for which they have cages! Outta space, outta luck.
As Christine probably knows, there are over 200 cities/towns that are now No Kill. As for No Kill places being hard to find, at least someone is looking for them. In fact, I just realized that my link to the No Kill communities list is outdated and should be replaced with this, which is the above someone's blog: Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.no-killnews.com/<http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/> (see the right sidebar) On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Christiane Biagi <ti...@mindspring.com>wrote: > The caveat to the “no kill” (as defined in the Asilomar Accords) is that > all it means is they will not kill adoptable animals. Unfortunately, its > up to the individual shelter/rescue to define what they consider > “adoptable”. All too often, facilities that advertise themselves as “no > kill” really mean that they will kill all ill, senior, problem behavior, > etc. animals but never kill a healthy easily adoptable animals. These > kinds of facilities never ever publish their "euthanasia matrix” which is > where they define their policy on who they will kill. True no kills (as we > think it means & as defined by Nathan Winograd) are tough to find. I > volunteer for one such shelter in New Orleans (ARNO) & the handful of > animals they’ve put down have been terminally ill animals who were either > comatose or in intractable pain. They never put down for fiv or felv! ** > ** > > ** ** > > The shelter you cited clearly is a kill shelter & why they wouldn’t have > alerted you to the cat’s test results & given you some time demonstrates an > attitude that is unfortunately all too common. I’m so sorry this happened > to you but please know that River had love from you—something she likely > hadn’t had in a very long time.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Felvtalk > [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org<felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org>] > *On Behalf Of *Alev Durmus > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:15 AM > *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > *Subject:* [Felvtalk] "No-kill" animal shelter killing FeLV+ cat**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > -- ---------------------------- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. <http://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer_fostercare.htm> If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/<http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/> Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/ Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/ More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially http://vimeo.com/48445902 Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond: http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=537
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