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Is No Kill More Difficult In Big Cities? « No-Kill Communities - 0 views

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  • In this post, I look at the statistics and come to the conclusion that the answer to the question “Is no kill more difficult in big cities” is “no.”
  • So why do we keep hearing people say that no kill is a small-town phenomenon that cannot succeed in big cities?
  • I could just as easily come up with a list of factors that could make no kill easier in big cities
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  • Big cities have a concentrated population from which to draw volunteers, fosters, and donors, and they also have ready availability of expertise in areas such as marketing and grant proposals.
  • What does correlate with no kill success? No-kill leadership at the shelter.
  • We need to focus on regime change, not on distractions like population size.
  • if we could magically replace every old-fashioned shelter director in the US today with a director who supports no kill and has the ability to implement the No Kill Equation, then we could be a no-kill nation by the end of this year.
  • the impediment was Washoe County’s regressive director
  • One point which needs to be added is that larger cities not only have more resources to draw from, they tend to have lower per capita intake rates.
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Effects of Mandatory Spay/Neuter laws - Houston animal shelters | Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • These laws are not having the desired effect i.e. a reduction in kill rates in local animal shelters.
  • One of the programs of the No Kill Equation is high volume, low cost spay/neuter services:  "Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives."  
  • increased voluntary sterilization does help reduce the number of animals entering shelters
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  • MSNL do not decrease the number of animals entering or being killed in shelters.
  • MSNL have resulted in more abandoned animals, higher shelter admissions, higher kill rates, lower compliance with licensing and rabies vaccination laws, and radically increased costs for animal control. 
  • People become afraid to get pet licenses because proof of sterilization is required. 
  • They are afraid to go to a veterinarian for rabies shots or medical care because veterinarians are required to report them
  • People abandon their pets because they fear fines and penalties.
  • Numerous studies have shown that the primary reason people do not sterilize their pets is costs
  • When the result of not sterilizing is an unaffordable fine or confiscation/impoundment of the pet, animals die.
  • more than 80 percent of owned cats in the US are already sterilized
  • This means that the majority of unsterilized cats are unowned strays.
  • MSNL would do nothing to increase the sterilization of unowned cats and would not reduce their deaths in shelters.
  • Also, MSNL are a nightmare to enforce.
  • hey burden already underfunded, understaffed animal control departments with more responsibilities.
  • Each community must hire more animal control officers to enforce them so an enormous amount of additional money is spent to enforce a draconian law when a much better use of those funds would be to provide low cost or free spay/neuter services.
  • immediately after passing MSNL, kill rates began to rise in L.A.
  • after MSNL were passed, for the first time in a decade, impounds and killing increased;
  • successful no kill shelters have stopped the killing without these laws.
  • Even though the author claimed that the economic downturn has caused kill rates to rise in L.A., clearly this isn’t the correct explanation.
  • All of these shelters dropped their kill rates without MSNL.
  • It is obvious that Mandatory Spay/Neuter laws are not a factor that helps to stop the killing in shelters. 
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No Kill en el mundo - An Interview with AR Zone : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • I don’t begin to pretend that I know the culture of South Korea. But I also cannot deny that the world is a lot smaller than it once was because of technology and human mobility. I also cannot deny shared human experience. We are people, and despite the ugly things that people are capable of, we are also capable of great compassion. I agree with abolitionist Theodore Parker that the arc of history may be long but it bends toward greater compassion. So, my initial caveat aside, I do not see why a model that works in the U.S. and works in Canada and works in Australia and works in New Zealand cannot work elsewhere.
  • It is also hard for me to see how the absence of “large, well-funded animal charities” in South Korea would be a bar to No Kill success. In the U.S. No Kill began and continues as a completely grassroots effort. In fact, in the U.S., the “large, well-funded animal charities” have been a roadblock to success. Without exception, the large national organizations like the Humane Society of the United States, the American Humane Association, the ASPCA, and PETA have been hostile to No Kill, championing killing and fighting reform efforts. Today, the biggest barrier to more widespread No Kill success in the U.S. is not “pet overpopulation.” It is not an absence of spay/neuter. It is not the “irresponsible public.” It is not a lack of funding. The single biggest barrier to No Kill is the fact that 3,500 shelter directors are mired in killing and they are legitimized, protected, and promoted by the large national organizations.
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The Myths That Won't Die - And Why They Matter « No-Kill Communities - 0 views

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  • Does it matter that so many people still believe these myths? I think the answer to that is a resounding “yes,”
  • because these myths seriously undermine the message of no kill.
  • Both of the myths take the responsibility for shelter killing off of shelter management (where it belongs) and put it on the “irresponsible public.”
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  • Putting the responsibility for shelter killing on the public makes working for no kill a discouraging and hopeless endeavor, because the public is not going to change.
  • For that reason, someone who believes that spay-neuter is the only solution to a pet overpopulation crisis is not going to be a very effective proponent of no kill.
  • We need to have a bright line between the myth that shelter killing is caused by the irresponsible public and the truth, which is that shelter killing is the responsibility of shelter management.
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Op-ed: Creating a No Kill Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture i... - 0 views

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  • in Norfolk, Virginia, seven out of 10 cats and almost half of all dogs are still being needlessly killed. Why? Because shelter officials are mired in the 19th century model of animal control based on an “adopt a few, kill the rest” mentality.
  • And we aim to change that.
  • We’ve requested that the City Council pass an ordinance requiring Norfolk to run its shelter in line with those of the most successful communities in the nation, by requiring simple, commonsense and cost-effective alternatives to killing that most animal lovers would be shocked to learn are not already being comprehensively implemented voluntarily.
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  • One of the proposals is to make it illegal for Norfolk shelters to kill animals using taxpayer money when qualified non-profit rescue organizations are willing to save them at private expense.
  • All it will require are foster care,
  • That number now stands at over 58,939—a 370% increase in annual lifesaving, all at no cost to taxpayers.
  • Another of the Norfolk proposals would end the practice of killing animals simply because the mandated stray holding period has passed.
  • Before the California law went into effect, only 12,526 animals were being transferred from shelters to rescue groups statewide every year.
  • working with rescue groups,
  • marketing and adoptions
  • Can anyone with even a hint of common sense or compassion actually say it is better to kill baby kittens than have volunteers bottle feed them?
  • Right now, excluding laws imposed by health departments regarding the use of controlled substances, the disposition of rabid and potentially aggressive animals and mandated holding periods, shelter directors in this country have essentially unlimited discretion as to how they operate their facilities.
  • They can exclude members of the community from volunteering.
  • They can prevent other non-profits, such as rescue groups and other shelters, from saving the lives of animals in their custody.
  • And when volunteers or rescuers go public with their concerns, they are terminated.
  • Where shelters are not willing to do these things voluntarily or do so on a limited basis when they should be doing it for every single animal, every single time, we must pass laws forcing them to do so.
  • when all you ever do is all you’ve ever done then all you’ll ever get is all you’ve ever gotten.
  • Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity.
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Op-ed: No Kill: A Battle for the Soul of Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating ... - 0 views

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  • An HSUS/Maddie’s Fund survey has determined that 23.5 million Americans will take in a dog or cat next year. 17 million have not yet made a decision where that pet will come from.
  • the killing stops.
  • about half are euthanized.
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  • If we convince less than 20% of these 17 million potential adopters to adopt from a shelter
  • and if those shelters keep the animals alive while homes are being found
  • “In the U.S., 6 to 8 million animals enter shelters annually,
  • The numbers are overwhelmingly in the animals’ favor. This is why the No Kill Equation has worked, always, wherever it has been rigorously applied.
  • A brave city councilman, Andy Protogyrou, has proposed that Norfolk become a No Kill city
  • Nothing would alter the landscape of animal welfare more than this: to have the city in which PETA is headquartered demonstrate that shelter killing is entirely unnecessary.
  • Still, you must decide. The No Kill Equation depends upon the community.
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Wish You Were Here : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • At a well run No Kill animal shelter, there are a variety of ways to respond to animals, depending on the reason that animal is in the shelter in the first place. There is not a one-size fits-all strategy of impound, holding period, adoption or killing, as is common in traditional, poorly run, high kill shelters. Each animal is treated as an individual, and the needs of every animal are addressed and met on a case-by-case basis.
  • When their animal control officers find lost animals in the field – they knock on doors or call the numbers on tags so that they can take the animal home instead of impound him/her.
  • If the animal is impounded, shelter staff is efficient at cross checking lost and found reports, so that the number of lost animals that are reclaimed by their people is much higher, and they have hours that allow people with lost pets to conveniently visit the shelter to reclaim them.
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  • Some animals entering a shelter are free-living cats. A No Kill shelter will spay/neuter and release those cats instead of kill them.  Likewise, injured animals will receive medical attention, and then go into foster homes, as will other sick animals, orphaned neonatals, and dogs with behavior issues that need rehabilitation. And, lastly, further reducing the number of animals a shelter has to find homes for are local rescue groups. These groups take some of the animals entering the shelter, and a well-run No Kill shelter considers such organizations valuable allies, and has a friendly, cooperative relationship with th
  • good adoption hours
  • offsite adoption venues,
  • the lack of programs, the lack of alternatives to killing.
  • the problem is not “pet overpopulation,” but a lack of imagination, commitment, and determination to treat each animal as an individual with distinct needs that must be met.
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A commendable legislative measure to spare more pets - Our Take - BradentonHerald.com - 0 views

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  • intends to phase out euthanasia and progressively increase the pet “live release” rate from 61 percent to above 90 percent sometime next year. Only terminally ill, injured and suffering pets as well as vicious dogs will continue to be euthanized.
  • Manatee pet rescue and animal welfare organizations aim to boost pet fostering and adoption and promote free or low cost spay and neutering programs.
  • Thus, it would be illegal for shelters to kill animals when a qualified non-profit rescue organization expresses a willingness to spare the creature.
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  • requiring public animal control agencies and shelters maintain a registry of private rescue groups willing to take animals earmarked for euthanasia.
  • An additional benefit is a savings for taxpayers as shelters lower operating costs by releasing animals to rescue groups.
  • helters have a variety of rescue access policies, with half the respondents saying the criteria sometimes depended on the whims of staff on duty
  • That is poor public policy.
  • Animal advocates point to a No Kill Nation statewide survey of rescue groups that shows 63 percent of the organizations encountered a government shelter that rejected a collaborative approach and killed animals instead.
  • Bennett cites both those savings and the additional shelter revenue from adoptions as rescue organizations would be charged a fee for saving animals.
  • The city and county of San Francisco saved almost $500,000 in animal control costs with a similar rescue access law and transferred 4,000 additional animals to private groups, according to Florida-based No Kill Nation.
  • One of the keys to increasing pet adoptions is marketing
  • writes a popular weekly column for the Bradenton Herald titled “A View to No-Kill” t
  • One of the most popular features on www.braden ton.com are the image galleries of available pets.
  • Animal Services posts images of adoptable animals at www.mymanatee.org/pets
  • a group of volunteer photographers is joining forces to boost the no-kill movement by shooting more becoming images and posting those at a new website, www.picture themadopted.com,
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Shelby County No-Kill Mission - 0 views

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    Respuesta del grupo de voluntarios de este refugio No Kill a la felicitación qu erecibieran de parte de Peta por presentamente haber vuelto a ponerse a matar después de 4 años de ser No Kill.
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The nation's top no kill advocates honored - 0 views

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    No Kill Nation lanza los premios Henry Award.
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There are no 'alien' species on planet Earth - | Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • They were cut down by so-called “environmentalists.” They were killed by those whose mission was supposed to be their protection. According to the local chapter of the Audubon Society, the trees were not “native” and had to be destroyed.
  • Invasion Biologists
  • believe that certain plants or animals should be valued more than others if they were at a particular location “first.”
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  • When the species that were there “first” are competing for habitat with a species that came later, they assert that the latter should be eradicated
  • In championing such views, the movement paradoxically has embraced the use of traps, poisons, fire, and hunting, even when these cause harm, suffering, and environmental degradation
  • In San Francisco, on the Channel Islands, all across the United States, plants and animals are being trapped, poisoned, hunted, burned, and destroyed by people who claim the mantel of environmentalism
  • And it is getting worse and increasingly violent, both in rhetoric (fish they don’t value are called “missiles with fins”) and in deeds.
  • Even the science writer for the New York Times has weighed in, suggesting mass killing and the eating of animals that do not pass the arbitrary litmus test of worthiness by environmentalists.
  • In a losing battle to return North America to a mythical state that existed before European colonization, they are proposing a slaughter with no end.
  • Is this really what environmentalism should be?
  • To assert that the world must remain as it is today and to act on that assertion by condemning to death those species who threaten that prevailing order, does not reject human interference in the natural world, it reaffirms it. 
  • An authentic environmentalism would not advocate that humans seek out and destroy living things for simply obeying the dictates of the natural world, such as migration and natural selection. 
  • It would not condone the killing of those plants and animals who find themselves in parts of the world where, for whatever arbitrary reason—be they economic, commercial, or aesthetic—some humans do not want them to be. An authentic environmentalism would recognize that such determinations are not for us to make, because in seeking to undo what nature inevitably does, we merely exacerbate suffering, killing and the destruction of natural places we claim to oppose, with no hope of ever gaining the ends we seek. It is to declare an unending war on nature and our home.
  • we put all living creatures, including ourselves, in danger as well
  • And just as disturbing, we open the floodgates of expression to our darker natures, by teaching others disdain and suspicion of the “foreign” and reverence for the familiar and the “native.”
  • The same forces of nature which created the world we live in today are shaping it even now.
  • Our actions, and our presence, being as much a part of that system as any other living thing that ever was, will shape and mold how that future will look
  • Yet there is no compelling reason to assert that any one outcome would be more preferable than any other.
  • Why is the starling less worthy of life and compassion than the spotted owl?
  • Why does the carp swimming gracefully in a Japanese Zen garden inspire peace and serenity, but when swimming with the same grace and beauty in Lake Michigan, such horror, disdain, and scorn?  Because some humans among us say it is so? Because they impact narrow aesthetic or commercial interests?
  • As perhaps the most intelligent and without a doubt the most resourceful species yet to evolve on our planet, humans have a moral obligation to ensure that we use our unique abilities for good, and not harm.
  • We are obligated to consider how our actions impact the other earthlings who share our home. And to determine, with all of our gifts of intellect and compassion, how we can meet our needs in the most generous and considerate means possible.
  • Sadly, as a species, we have yet to comprehensively and collectively determine how we might do this.
  • But that, in truth, is our most solemn duty, and the end every environmentalist should be seeking.
  • On a tiny planet surrounded by the infinite emptiness of space, in a universe in which life is so exceedingly rare as to render every blade of grass, every insect that crawls, and every animal that walks the Earth an exquisite, wondrous rarity, it is breathtakingly myopic, arrogant, and quite simply inaccurate to label any living thing found anywhere on the planet which gave it life as “alien” or “non-native.”  There is simply no such thing as an “invasive” species.
  • We must turn our attention away from the futile effort to hold or return our environment to some mythic state of perfection that never existed toward the meaningful goal of ensuring that every life that appears on this Earth is welcomed and respected as the glorious, cosmic miracle it actually is.
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Just Another Day? Hardly. : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • it is because of this irresponsibility that shelters exist in the first place.
  • it is often the practices of the shelter itself that lead to killing.
  • [The No Kill movement] debunks the myth of pet overpopulation and puts the blame for the killing where it belongs:
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  • on the shoulders of the very shelter directors who find killing easier than doing what is necessary to stop it
  • on the local governments who continue to underfund their shelters
  • place them under the regressive oversight of health and police departments
  • and even under sanitation!
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Perros en las calles de la Región Metropolitana llegan a los 214.933 | Nacion... - 0 views

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    Acá pongo mi comentario, que en la web de La Tercera me resultó imposible: "Sería bueno que se publicase el estudio en que se basan. Qué metodología se usó? Cuándo se hizo el estudio? Quiénes lo hicieron?  Crucial sería ver la información desglosada por comunas. La clasificación aquí presentada ignora la existencia de los perros perdidos. En Chile, q yo sepa, no hay estudios sobre el particular. Sí en otros países. Un ejemplo: Campina (Brasil): allá el 70% de los perros de la calle son perros perdidos. Muy probablemente se repite acá la historia. Según declaraciones de expertos chilenos, las observaciones preliminares así lo indicarían. Falta hacer el estudio. Importante -muy importante- este punto. Pues si no atendemos al problema de los perros perdidos, no podremos diseñar estrategias destinadas a terminar con dicho problema. Nótese que si evitamos que los perros se pierdan, y si -una vez perdidos- creamos programas serios de reunificación familiar, necesitaríamos muchíismos menos hogares adoptivos, tendríamos muchísimos menos perros dando vueltas por la calle. Por lo demás, una nueva perspectiva entrega esperanza, nuevas vías de trabajo. En sí mismo es importante. Nunca se logró solucionar un problema con la misma mentalidad que se creó. Es necesario actuar en base a estudios serios, nuevos, y arremangarse consecuentemente. Las comunidades que lo han hecho así han logrado de la noche a la mañana prácticamente terminar con los perros de la calle. Referentes los tenemos en todo el mundo, desde EEUU a Argentina, España, Holanda o Brasil (y ojo, se arregla a nivel local). Gran referente teórico y práctico es Nathan Winograd, que habla de la ecuación No Kill (sacrificio cero): se deben poner en práctica una serie de programas y servicios, todos, en práctica. Si falla uno no se logra. Incluye esterilizaciones gratis/barata, trabajo en adopción, en perros perdidos, fomento (y reconocimiento!) del voluntariado,
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ASPCA Announces President and CEO Ed Sayres' Intention to Step Down - MarketWatch - 0 views

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  • Ed has established the ASPCA as a leader in providing sheltering expertis
  • Under Ed's leadership, the organization's membership base has tripled to more than 1.2 million
  • revenues have quadrupled to $148 million in 2011
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  • "I joined the ASPCA to bring the life-saving model I championed in San Francisco to NYC and beyond
  • As a pioneer of the "no-kill" model of animal sheltering
  • which exhorts community groups to collaborate to stop the killing of healthy or treatable dogs and cats in animal shelters
  • Mr. Sayres was recruited to the ASPCA in 2003 to bring no-kill to New York City
  • At that point, only 33 percent of the animals in New York City's shelters made it out alive. By the first quarter of 2012, that figure had risen to approximately 80 percent.
  • Mr. Sayres has been the guiding force behind the ASPCA's effort to build collaborative partnerships across the country with municipal and non-profit animal welfare agencies so that they may end the killing of healthy and treatable dogs and cats.
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    Sorprendente tasa de adopciones de este refugio no kill gring.
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Power to the People : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • Despite the entrenchment of groups like the ASPCA, the widespread success of the No Kill movement has invigorated animal lovers nationwide, and one of the results of that success has been an exponential increase in the number of rescue organizations.
  • Her opposition is, at its core, about fear—a fear of losing power. A fear that Oreo’s Law—by eliminating her role as the unnecessary “middle man” between shelters and rescue groups will render her obsolete, as it should.
  • While Sayres continues to write checks to Hoffman’s group, such as the additional $150,000 given in 2009 for her discretionary use, the initial $5 million from the ASPCA has been spent. And the Maddie’s Fund project ends this year. The Mayor’s Alliance and her role as its head cannot survive in New York without grant funding from the ASPCA. And there lies the rub. Hoffman needs Ed Sayres’ money and control over the rescue groups to stay in power, and Ed Sayres needs Jane Hoffman’s support to fight a law which will forever memorialize his betrayal of an abused dog. It is an unholy alliance based on greed, naked self-interest, and the preservation of near unequivocal power the two currently enjoy over the smaller non-profits in New York City.
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  • Like the network of “safe houses” which protected runaway slaves as they fled north to freedom, the thousands of rescue groups, No Kill sanctuaries and No Kill shelters throughout our nation are our movement’s own safe houses.
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