I was thinking about going to the animal shelter and adopting a pet scheduled to be euthanized soon. Do you have a pet from the animal shelter?
No but i have a pet i picked from the street
That's still great! I'd prefer a no-kill shelter, where they only euthanized terminally ill pets, but none around here. Do you have no-kill shelters where you live?
No I do not. I live in a country side
still be considered a no-kill shelter.
Definition.
A no-kill or limited admit shelter is a shelter that saves healthy, treatable and rehabilitatable animals. As a benchmark, at least 90% of the animals entering the shelter are expected to be saved. The save rate must be based on all animals entering the shelter: "It does not matter if the animals are old, blind, deaf, missing limbs, or traumatized. All of these animals are worthy of our compassion, all of them
of California at Davis researchers Aline and Robert Kidd. Similar themes were identified in research conducted in Canada by Michelle Lem, Director of Community Veterinary Outreach in Ontario, Canada. These pet owners described the ways their pets shaped their environment: they would sleep outside in the rain if the only option was shelter in a no pet shelter; their pet kept them off drugs and alcohol, and they avoided risky behavior that might result in arrest and incarceration because they feared their pet would be removed or euthanized. They also reported that