I love to visit animal shelters and play with the dogs and cats. It helps me with all my stress.
Yes we got our cat from a kill shelter they were overrun with animals. I wish all animal shelters were no-kill shelters.
I wish that too. I got my kitten from a no-kill center too. She's adorable, but a handful sometimes.
They do a lot of good. It's sad to see abandoned animals there, but often wildlife get taken there too.
Yes. A lot of good is done in the shelters.
dogs. Critics believe the new term "animal shelter" is generally a euphemism for the older term "pound". The word "pound" had its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until claimed by their owners.
United States & Canada.
In the United States there is no government-run organization that provides oversight or regulation of the various shelters on a national basis. However, many individual states do regulate shelters within their jurisdiction. One of the
can find homes, and all of them deserve to."
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