Are No Kill Shelters, REALLY No Kill Shelters??

[junescrater716]

Well, ever since I got that Dog Bible book for x-mas i've found it to be quite interesting. There is a section on no-kill shelters. It says that once the shelter get over filled they just ship the extra animals to a different shelter to be euthanized.

It makes sense because if you ran a shelter and the cages were running out, the only two options would be to euthanize and turn animals away. So, there really is no such thing as a no kill shelter.

Interesting huh?

[animal_rescue]

Hmm I work at a Humane Society and while we don't have a specific set time for animals. We do euthanize; only distressed, very sick, hurt, or aggressive animals though. However we're starting to work on our foster program more now, so hopefully we don't have to do it.

[BC_MoM]

Our humane society is "no-kill".. but they do euthanize when dogs are overly aggressive (they have a fantastic behaviourlist) or very sick or injured beyond the point of recovery.

[CathyBogart]

My local HS is no-kill. It's quite simple....they stop accepting dogs when they are full, so other shelters or animal control get the excess and end up euthanizing them. No fewer animals are killed because of no-kill shelters, they exist because the public likes to hear "no-kill", and it's easier on the people who work there.

[binka_nugget]

The shelter we adopted Kaedyn from was Canada's first no-kill shelter. They also will only euthanize if the dog is overly aggressive, or is ill and has no chance of recovery. They never seem to be completely full though.. we're lucky that there are a lot of independent rescues that work closely with our shelters.

[junescrater716]

Yes but I think it's kind of ironic how they tell everyone that no kill means that they don't kill no matter what. Then they send the sick, aggressive, and old to another shelter to be euthanized. Most people don't know that the "no kill" shelters kill any animals because they don't read up on stuff like this.