Team
up with Blount County's
NO KILL Shelter Effort...We're
the Good Guys!
A National Tragedy
We
are a nation of cat and dog
lovers. But the shelters we
expect to
provide these animals
with a second
chance are instead
killing millions of
them every
year. And for far too long,
we
have been told that there is no
other way. More than that, we have
been told that the killing is
exclusively
the public's fault.
That shelters—
through no fault
of their own—are
merely
performing the public's dirty
work—with skill, compassion, and
dedication. Nothing could be
further
from the truth.
From
entrenched bureaucrats who
are
content with the status quo, to
uncaring shelter directors hostile
to
calls for reform; from
agencies mired
in the failed
philosophies of the past
to
those who have internalized a
culture of defeatism—the roadblocks
to No Kill are substantial, but not
insurmountable.
We have a choice.
We can
fully, completely and without
reservation embrace No Kill as our
future. Or we can continue to
legitimize the two-prong strategy
of
failure: adopt a few and kill
the rest.
It is a choice which history
has
thrown upon us. And a
challenge that
the No Kill
Advocacy Center is ready
to take
on. The No Kill Advocacy
Center
is the nation’s first
organization dedicated solely to
the
promotion of a No Kill
nation.
No
Kill Advocacy Center
Nathan
Winograd
Redemption
Don't
forget to order a copy of Nathan
Winograd's book Redemption: The Myth
of Pet Overpopulation and the No
Kill Revolution in America, which is
being called "powerful,"
"inspirational," and a "must read
for anyone who cares about animals."
Redemption is the story of animal
sheltering in the United States, a
movement that was born of compassion
and then lost its way. It is the
story of
the “No Kill” movement,
which says we can and
must stop
the killing. It is about heroes and
villains, betrayal and redemption.
And it is about a social movement as
noble and just as those that have
come before. But most of all, it is
a story about believing in the
community and trusting in the power
of compassion.
