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.
I often thing that animal shelters should be overseen by government organizations to make sure everything is done to standard, but that does not exist here.
More regulation would help for sure. There would also be less issues due to funding.
I think some individual states try and regulate the shelters, but I'm sure it can be hard because there are so many.
There is also no larger entity to provide oversight. I'm sure a lot of stuff gets missed.
earliest comprehensive measures was the "Georgia Animal Protection Act" of 1986. The law was enacted in response to the inhumane treatment of companion animals by a pet store chain in Atlanta. The Act provided for the licensing and regulation of pet shops, stables, kennels, and animal shelters, and established, for the first time, minimum standards of care. The Georgia Department of Agriculture was tasked with licensing animal shelters and enforcing the new law through the Department's newly created Animal Protection Division. An additional provision, added in
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