I would love to volunteer at an animal shelter where stray, lost and abandoned dogs and cats are kept until they are rehabilitated or adopted.
that's very cool and admirable, I have contemplated doing the same.
I could only work at a no kill shelter because I could not handle the euthanizing of healthy animals because they were claimed.
Yes I don't think I would be able to either there are so many animals that need our help
A true no-kill shelter does not kill healthy or treatable animals even if the shelter is full. They only euthanize terminally ill animals or those that are dangerous.
That is very good, are there a lot of them in the US?
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
Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray