I think volunteering for an animal shelter would be a rewarding experience.
Me too! However, I would need to find a no-kill animal shelter to work at.
I adopted my last two cats from a no-kill shelter in North Carolina.
Oh wow that is so great! Were the cats rescued? Many times these shelters rescue animals that were in danger.
The cats had been abandoned by their owner and dumped at a kill shelter.
That is so sad! Thankfully you were able to save them. No-kill shelters are great at finding most rescued pets new homes!
It was very heartbreaking and both of them were in poor health at the time but we have spoiled them silly and they are thriving five year old babies now.
SO great to hear stories like these! It makes me so upset to think about all of the abandoned pets out there.
People need to be more responsible when it comes to pet ownership.
end in itself, defined as zoosadism. With approximately 65 billion animals killed annually for food, farm animals are the most numerous animals subjected to cruelty.
Divergent approaches to laws concerning animal cruelty occur in different jurisdictions throughout the world. For example, some laws govern methods of killing animals for food, clothing, or other products, and other laws concern the keeping of animals for entertainment, education, research, or pets. There are a number of conceptual approaches to the issue of cruelty to animals.
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Definition Adoptability issue.
Some shelters claim they are no kill when they save all "adoptable" animals, but continue to kill many healthy, treatable, or rehabilitatable animals, such as feral cats. No kill advocate Nathan Winograd states that a Los Angeles animal shelter "was claiming to be saving almost all 'adoptable' animals even while it was killing half the dogs and 80% of all cats. A shelter does not achieve No Kill by calling animals