I found my dog at a local animal shelter. It is a place where lost or abandoned pets are taken care of.
Did you visit different animal shelters to find the perfect one? You have to go into an open mind when going to a shelter.
Yes, I visited several no-kill shelters before finding the one that had my dog. The no-kill shelters do not euthanize animals.
It's a shame that kill shelters even exist.
I agree. No-kill shelters ask for more volunteers to help in order to keep costs at a minimum. I wish every shelter was like that.
I know they also take donations such as food and bedding for the animals on a regular basis.
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
. Best Friends Animal Society is the largest no-kill shelter in the United States who adopts policies such as "Save Them All". Like this shelter and many others, they strive to keep their animals as long as it takes to find them new homes. City shelters and government funded shelters rarely have this policy because of the large number of animals they receive. No-kill shelters are usually run by groups that have volunteers or individuals with enough space to foster pets until a permanent home can be found. However