Description: The No Kill News blog tracked open-admission to no-kill shelters as well as offering other news about shelter management, statistics, etc. Content is from the site's 2012-2013 archived pages. The No Kill movement needs to continue to grow and expand.
The No Kill News blog tracked open-admission to no-kill shelters as well as offering other news about shelter management, statistics, and links to other sites. The new owner of this domain chose to keep an edited version of the original content because of the belief in this blogger's concern for what happens to abandoned cats and dogs in our nation's animal shelters. The No Kill movement needs to continue to grow and expand. Content is from the site's 2012-2013 archived pages.
This blog tracks open-admission no-kill shelters. “Open-admission” (also known as “open-intake”) shelters are obligated to take in strays (either serving as animal control themselves or accepting strays from animal control) and animals surrendered by people who live in the area served by the shelter — in other words, these shelters cannot pick and choose what animals they take in or how many animals they take in. “No-kill” shelters are ones that maintain a 90% or better live release rate. That is, 90% or
In the right-hand sidebar is a list of communities arranged by category. “No-Kill Documented” includes open-admission city and county shelters that are no-kill and have documented their no-kill status by posting their full statistics online. “No-Kill Reported” includes shelters that have made credible reports that they are no-kill, but that do not post full statistics online. Often these are small shelters that have basic websites and limited computer resources. “No-Kill In Progress” includes open-admissio