Hi Edna, No, I am in MA. thank you,
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Edna Taylor <taylore...@msn.com> wrote: > Alev, are you in Houston, TX. What shelter was this? > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:17:14 -0700 > From: alev_dur...@yahoo.com > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] "No-kill" animal shelter killing FeLV+ cat > > Thank you Kathryn, > > I signed the Houston petition already...I hope you guys get enough people on > time. I checked the list, it was not in it before. I will check the new one > too. I am thinking to send them an email about what I think of them and send > a FB messages to people around town to warn that this shelter is not > "no-kill" I don't know what else I can do? > > Thank you so much to you all for all you support and info, really, sharing > this with you made me cry more but better than holding in... > > > Alev > From: Kathryn Hargreaves <khargrea...@gmail.com> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] "No-kill" animal shelter killing FeLV+ cat > > 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 list is outdated and should be replaced with this, which is the above 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.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] 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. > > 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/ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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