any shelter that doesn't have enough room for the number of feral and unwanted cats it takes in, no matter how much it might WANT to do better, ends up being a kill shelter. some of us have been working with this shelter ourselves, recently, and have seen them be very willing to work with special-needs cats, which is an amazing thing indeed--but across the country, shelters tend to do much better with dogs than they do with cats.

you're clearly a dog person, which means that your shelter experience is probably quite different than that of full-time cat rescuers. dog people would be screaming if shelters killed dogs at the rate they kill feral and stray cats--i'm not saying that they all want to, but they do, for space, for lack of understanding that hissing and scratching can mean terrified as well as vicious, for lack of contact with the extensive TNR and rescue resources available. check out the figures for this shelter, too, please. ask how they determine which cat is adoptable and which isn't? then come work WITH us.

just as there are many levels of meaning in the term, "no-kill," there are all sorts of things implied by the appellation, "kill"--it does NOT necessarily mean that it's a heartless, uncaring place, it can mean, and appears to in this instance, a place that is doing the best that it can without sufficient resources to actually become what we'd all like ALL organizations to become--truly no-kill.

http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/