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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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I think this is super important to remember.

rubyvroom

No kill shelters result in animals dumped on the highway and tossed in the river because the rescues wont take them. That’s the part they never tell you.

Meanwhile the spca will take every animal, and if they have to euthanize them at least it will be done kindly and not via neglect or cruelty.

rubyvroom

Because people in the notes are not getting this, let me explain:

No-kill shelters TURN AWAY animals. When they’re full - and they often are because most of these no-kill shelters are small - they stop taking them in. While they are “taking their time to find the right homes for every single animal”, many other animals never get in the door. Somehow they don’t count those animals, or track what happens to them. A success for them doesn’t include the ones they turned away. They’re taking their time because they can. 

The No-Kills who brag about 100% adoption rates are the worst, because they tend to reject the most. The animals who will be difficult to adopt out? They just don’t take those. Special needs? Too old? If they’re going to be hard to adopt out, they can claim to be full, even if they’re not. 

They are telling owners they absolutely cannot take their fifteen year old cat because they are full of litters of kittens. Adorable kittens that will turn over quickly, and boost their adoption numbers. So what happens to the fifteen year old cat? After days of being rejected at the shelters they get dumped on the side of the road somewhere, or worse. 

You cannot imagine the VOLUME of animals that a city shelter deals with. The kill shelters are not allowed to turn anyone away. The difficult cases, the special needs, the elderly, the feral. The dog that bites, the cat that pees everywhere. Every animal is going to be taken in and treated with kindness. They are going to be assessed and treated for their fleas and conditions and behavioral problems. They will get their time on the adoption floor. They will get the best chance possible to find a new home. And if it’s not possible, they will be humanely euthanized, and that cage space will go to the next animal who is already waiting for it. It never stops. While you were working on the paperwork to adopt out 1 cat, three people brought in 4 more. It’s a numbers game that you cannot win if you aren’t turning people away.

A lot of times kill shelters get the animals that the no-kill shelters refused to take. Maybe their owners bring them. Or maybe they got literally thrown in the garbage, abandoned, or put in a bag and tossed in the river, when the no-kill shelter said they were full. The police and rescuers will bring these poor injured animals to the city shelter where they will be cared for. The volunteers will spend days and weeks trying to wash the tar out of their fur, or treat their broken bones, or whatever other horrible thing has happened to them. They will feed and house them. They will put most of them in new homes. They will save many many more animals, by orders of magnitude, than a no-kill shelter ever will. A no-kill shelter will brag about dozens or maybe hundreds of  adoptions. Kill shelters are dealing in thousands of successful adoptions, and they still have to euthanize because it just isn’t enough. There are just so many animals to take in.

And then, after all this, the No-Kill Shelters get to claim the moral high ground somehow, and self-righteous types will refuse to adopt from the only shelter that takes absolutely everyone. It’s infuriating. 

nevershootamockingbird

[ Begin ID: Three screenshots of a twitter thread by @/hannahschramm4. The tweets read:

The difference between a “kill” and “no-kill” shelter is so misunderstood and prompts me to write a 7 tweet rant on why you need to know the difference and give equal support to both

Municipal shelters are more often tagged as “kill shelters” because they are contractually obligated to serve the community they reside in. If Cleveland City Kennel, Lorain County Kennel, and others alike get a call for an animal they HAVE to bring it in regardless of their

current volume of dogs. So if they have 20 kennels and all are full they must bring it in regardless. Contrasting, private shelters (more often “no kill” shelters) have the ability to pick and choose when and what to accept into their shelter. They do not have to exceed their

max amount of animals. So going back, people often boast that they’d never support a “kill shelter”, never volunteer for one, never adopt from one, never even visit one. And essentially, that’s the problem. Since they are contractually obligated to take in an every animal in their

municipality and they get no adoptions, inadequate staff, no support from the community, no adoptions animals are senselessly euthanized because of the stigma that they are creating themselves. If we all showered municipal shelters with the same love “no kill” private shelters

got, euthanasia wouldn’t even be considered because kennels would open because the community supports them and adopts/fosters/etc. “Kill shelters” aren’t full of monsters who hate animals, they’re typically minimally staffed with volunteers that work so hard to save every single

animal with little to not supports from their community. thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, support your local shelters. All of em :)

This thread is excluding situations where animals have no other option but euthanasia, for example: overly aggressive animals or incurably sick animals. No shelter is exempt from those heart breaking cases! / End ID ]

wazkalia

My city just rebuilt the shelter it had that’s government owned and it’s bigger cleaner and in a far better, more accessible spot than the last and had space when opening.


It was full in a day and because its the city/animal control THEY STILL HAVE TO PICK UP ANIMALS. THE DOG KENNELS ALONE ARE ALWAYS CROWDED. DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE CAT SIDE.


Support all shelters and please ADOPT! Hell my shelter tries by constantly having free adoption days like they are BEGGING people to get these animals homed (not the horses and the ostrich. The ostrich is going to the ZOO and the horses to an actual rescue for horses. You cannot have the ostrich.)

the older I get the more I see that a lot of problems come from the fact that people just...forget that things take up physical space I feel like part of it is the fact that we inhabit digital spaces so much more often now so we're so disconnected from each other that things like this become like an “out of sight out of mind” sort of thing we don't have to worry about how things work because we don't go out and interact with each other physically enough so what really matters is just how things make us FEEL so we just take comfort in knowing certain things exist and forget the logistics of it and ignore the materiality of things like. ya it makes us feel good to think strat animals get taken care of but we act like animals that enter shelters are like saved like files in a video game or something we don't pay attention to the fact that they have to have somewhere to be similar thing happens with library books people think of libraries as Places Where Books go and they take comfort in thinking that books will be preserved there and they forget that books take up physical space. they need somewhere to be which means we can't just infinitely collect new book and also keep all the old ones at some point we will need to get rid of the old books so there's room on the shelves for the new ones but people forget that and get upset when they learn that a library is throwing away books “why can't you just donate them why can't you put them in an archive why can't you resell them” some books are old and falling apart and some are ripped and stained and damaged and unreadable and trying to rehome them takes time you can't just sit around with a room full of old books forever. at some point you just. have to get rid of em. and sometimes that means throwing books away or destroying them honestly same with things like clouds and servers too because yay the files are on the cloud we can save data in intangible ways except the data still has to exist somewhere. where are the servers being built where are the data centers being built it doesn't take up any of YOUR physical space but it does take up space SOMEWHERE and it's probably taking up space in places where people are cared for less and struggling more also ya it's cool that we have waste management systems but your trash bags don't just disappear when the garbage truck takes em away YOU don't have to deal with it anymore but SOMEONE does and it still takes up space SOMEWHERE it's just not taking up YOUR space. you only don't have to deal with it because someone else is dealing with it for you but that doesn't mean it's gone. I think we forget that too often society let's us have limited object permanence for things and in a lot of ways that's both good and bad