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.
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
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