copied from another post by Judith McBriar One of the efforts in No Kill Is to work with rescue partnerships. That means transport more out to shelters like Sarasota, which we already do, and The Humane Society of Pinellas, which we already do. We need to line more shelters like these up for partnering with them. The volunteers provided the liaison with these two. They have adopted out many of our pets to wonderful homes. These are model shelters who carefully screen the adopters and have really nice shelters. If we get more of them to work with CCAS it will help. The volunteers spend their own money and time transporting the animals to these shelters, at quite a distance. There are sometimes caravans of volunteers whereas if we could use the shelter bus it would be much less expensive. Also more successful adoption events are part of the equation, get more of our animals out to the events. Rather than 6 or 8 dogs out, and no cats, if we get 15 or more animals out to the events, and they are well advertised in advance there will be more adoptions. More proactive redemptions, which means greater effort to find the owners so the pets can be reclaimed, is also part of the equation, It would help if county residents knew there is a shelter and where its located. Also more foster homes, also greater pet retention meaning help (food, flea meds, etc) to more county pet owners to keep their pets rather than place them in the shelter. There are many good ways to save 90 percent or more of our county animals without greater expense. Its an internal effort within the shelter, with the help of the community to foster, volunteer, etc. The No Kill movement in this country has been gathering momentum for years, but few in our county are familiar with it. It is about saving cats through trap/neuter and release and other programs mentioned in the chart that Deb posted above. Did anyone look at it closely? It doesnt mean literally No Kill, since vicious or terminally ill animals are still euthanized. But euthanasia is actually compassionate ending the life of a suffering animal. It doesnt mean killing healthy adoptable animals when there are ways (like in the chart above) to strive to save more lives. its not about money, its about creative thinking and programmed effort on the part of the shelter and the community. Please look closer at the chart. If you click on it it will enlarge it.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:25:28 +0000
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