I often wonder about shelters that advertise themselves as no-kill.I'm not saying it's not possible, but I do question how they manage how they manage to do it. I volunteered with a beautiful shelter for four years.
They made every effort to find good forever homes for every animal that came in. But here's the problem. If an animal came in with a fatal disease what do you do? Let it suffer? Pay a lot of money to medicate and you know it will not work?
What about an elderly animal who also is very ill? Or a feral animal who has very little chance of being socialized? What about the people who sneak in, in the middle of the night thinking they are good Samaritans with a very sick animal, dump it in the drop-off pen, and don't leave so much as a nickle for it's care?
The issue for shelters is they have only so many dollars. They have many more animals. So they have to use their dollars to save the lives of as many animals as is humanly possible. This means making some heartbreaking decisions.
The solutions to this equation is easy. More money or less animals. Now before everyone gets in a tizzy, I mean by less animals, "Spay or neuter!" By more money I mean, "Contribute as much as you can afford to your local shelter". Then you will definitely have a "No-Kill" shelter.
You folks who are trying so hard to help these poor cats are definitely angels in my opinion. I feel no kindness to a small animal will go unrewarded. I wonder if you would consider volunteering at one of the local shelters. It sounds to me that you would definitely be good at it! I really enjoyed my time at Angels for Animals.
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