Animal Shelters Shoots Pets To Save Money By J.e. Ante

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Of the estimated 6 to 8 million pet animals each year brought to animal shelters over half or 4.4 million are killed needlessly. Most all of
these 4.4 million pets killed are dogs and cats and they are someones
lost pet or a feral animal that could have been sterilized and released.
There are 18 million homes that purchase pets each year but 80% of
these pets are not adopted from an animal shelter. And so 90% of these
yearly 4.4 million pet death can be ended as many communities in the US
have already done.

Millions of pets are killed each year because shelters are
poor marketers of their adoption programs or they are in a poor
location for public traffic to adopt pets. Millions of pets are killed because
shelters close early at 4:30PM before most people get off work and can easily get
to a shelter to look for their lost pets or purchase a new pet. Millions of pets
are killed each year because shelters do not cure a pet of a disease but save money by
killing them instead and so they have one less pet to adopt out. Millions of pets and
feral animals are killed because shelters do not have an adequate low cost community spaying and neutering program. And hundreds of thousands of pets are given over to animal center because their finances have temporarily changed and they can no longer afford to care for them while they look for work.

We know how to save 90% or more of these 4.4 million needless pet deaths per year. The
No Kill Advocacy Center, offers animal shelters a program to do so by changing simple business practices and marketing and changing local animal center policies. In most cases it is not about lack of funding but rather just doing business differently that is already known to work well in many other communities that have 90% adoption rates.

Lastly, I do not know of any animal shelters that will admit they actually shoot their animals
rather than using a shot of drugs to kill them. But this secret practice may happen more often than the public will ever know. But what does it matter how your pets are killed if they are killed if 4.4 million pets are needlessly killed simply at the whim of humans because they have poor marketing skills, or want to close the shelter early at 4:30PM, or they do not want to spend a few dollars to cure a pet, or they don't have a good local spaying and neutering program or local adoption programs. Dead is dead and now you know it does not have to be that way. The No Kill Advocacy Center and the "Catch, Sterilize, and Release Feral Animals" programs can end most of these needless 4.4 million PER YEAR pet deaths at the
hands of humans. This is a better way than the old way of doing business at most animal shelters. This No Kill Advocacy may not be the best way but it is a proven much better way of doing business than the current practices. So now you know. What are you going to do about it?

Read A Good Review Of "No Kill Advocacy" Program Below by Sharon Seltzer:

Is Pet Overpopulation Really Killing Our Cats and Dogs? Part I by Sharon Seltzer
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/is-pet-overpopulati...
Is Pet Overpopulation Really Killing Our Cats and
Dogs? Part II

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/is-pet-overpopulati...

No Kill Advocacy Center
www.nokilladvocacycenter.org

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Joseph Ante
J.E. Ante, Graduate University of Indianapolis BA 1972, Head of the Life Science Institute Health Library, original organizer of first Earth Day in 1970 and local ZPG chapter in Indiana, Population and Environment Editor with Reflector at Indianapolis University, 12yr organic gardener with fruit, nuts, and berries, lifelong student of Out-of-Body spiritual techniques.( http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/joseph-ante/201241.htm )

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