#nokillshelter

[pesura]

mood: Tristan De Liege & NoKillShelter - Horologue

[animalhelpuy]

Prácticamente a diario nos abandonan camadas de cachorritos en ANIMAL HELP URUGUAY, hoy 38 cachorritos, más los más de 200 perros adultos, ayúdenos a dar en adopción por favor no damos más, cel. 598 94676181📣 Pedimos difusión para lograrles hogares amorosos🧸 ANIMAL HELP URUGUAY Cel. 598 94676181. 📣 ✅Difunde, ✅Regístrate, ✅Colabora, ✅Adopta ✅Apadrina, 🧸Donaciones: 🆘Abitab 10.605 o puedes colaborar por 🆘Mi Dinero de Red Pagos 14732586, 🆘 Brou $U 000296849-00002 o Brou U$ 000296849-00001   📣 Youtube👍, Instagram y Facebook www.facebook.com/animalhelp.org click en ME GUSTA 👍 califícanos con 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ para ampliar redes de ayuda animal. Suscríbete: http://animalhelpuruguay.org.uy/suscribete/

[thebikerbookforcharity]

❤️❤️❤️

Boston, Kentucky

@barktownrescue

#motorcycles #charity #charityevent #fundraiser #ridetorescue #animals #dogs #cats #rescue #adoption #nokillshelter #bostonky #kentucky

[catluvus]

[ad_1] ⏰ PSA: Daylight Personal savings is this Sunday, March 8th. Never neglect to modify your clocks one particular hour forward. Perhaps you will get to sleep in if your cat doesn’t know it is time to wake up ? ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #catmemes #catadoptions #nokillshelter [ad_2]

[draftwood]

Meet Dostoevsky, Dusty for short. Dusty has been living on the street for a while and is in pretty rough shape. Please help us get him back on his feet! Any funds raise beyond Dusty's medical costs will be donated to St. Paul no-kill cat shelter, Feline Rescue (felinerescue.org).

[geezerwench]

Love clothing with a purpose! Each @maisonatia coat sold provides life saving transportation for a homeless puppy or kitten to a #nokillshelter through their partnership with @pawschicago . Also, another reason to love them- aiming to be zero waste - Maison Atia uses leftover fabric from coat production to create luxurious accessories, and for the fabric that can’t be turned into a creation, the company works with #FabScrap to recycle the leftovers. Their MA by Maison Atia collection is made from 100% plants and #recycledwaterbottles. They continue to push the boundaries of what #fauxfur can look like and feel like while being on the forefront of #sustainability as a brand! Lastly, all of their packaging is made from #recycled materials. Love. This. Yes. Thank you @chloemendel and @grazielagems for the best early Xmas gift! I hardly ever buy myself anything and you know I prefer secondhand over new things, but this one is pretty special and very thoughtful, so thank you for thinking of me and sharing your love🌎♥️🌎 and yes, I’m wearing the same overalls still. Going on 60 days straight ha! Reposted from @nikkireed https://www.instagram.com/p/CHd6FOwAu2D/?igshid=10461gcfzbg17

[the-rescue-cat-and-dog-filmmaker]

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We are thankful to have had the opportunity to cover Joh’s rescue story during the holiday season. It was surely a cold one but we gained a whole new appreciation for the daily work it takes to run a farm. Johns story serves as a highlight to the many hardworking individuals who put their entire heart into saving the lives of defenseless animals. Not only does he rescue he makes sure that they live a comfortable and fulfilling life. : : Our LIVE YouTube show allows us to continue our mission with more stories that we feel need to be heard. We are thankful to our supporters and those that believe in our cause. Rescue journey’s shared inspires us to keep our mission going knowing that these stories will help everyone understand the importance of rescue awareness & education.
We want to give thanks to those who have been supporting our cause and watching our documentaries around the United States .
Our continuous work to do our part has led us to expand in ways that excite us to keep on going regardless of the many obstacles we face.
Please continue to SHARE information, watch our content & spread our mission. : : YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CristianRubenAnimalRescueProject FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/IFilmHeroes Website - IFilmHeroes.com : : @phaseonephoto @canonusa @broncolorusa @thesatoproject @oliphantstudio .. .. #backdrops #canon5dmarkiv #zhiyun #animalrescue #horsesofinstagram #rescuefarm #farm #dogsofinstagram #dogs #rescue #man #phaseonephoto #canonphoto #nokillshelter (at United States) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjpGfZhO5v/?igshid=l3ettr2nvv09

[brln-hitch]

Saint bernard skull cleaned.

[realworldanimalsheltering]

A Plea to Rethink No Kill

Years ago, the idealist views of the no kill movement came up for me personally.  I was on the board at a local animal shelter.  We were in the process of finalizing operational policies and procedures.  No kill came up as part of this discussion.  No kill is defined by Best Friends Animal Society as, “saving every dog and cat in a shelter who can be saved“, and further, “A 90% save rate for the animals entering a shelter is the common-sense benchmark for measuring lifesaving progress.”   I was captivated, as everybody is when they think of a perfect world.  I ordered the book Redemption by Nathan Winograd and took in every word of this book as if it was gospel.  I researched organizations across the US, and asked them how they got to the no kill benchmark of 90%.  I visited no kill sanctuaries and attended conferences.  I invented games about animal rescue.

After I rolled off the board, I took a break from rescue and then got back into volunteering at another local animal shelter.  There were hardworking volunteers already in place trying their best to save animals, while the organization was still not really promoting direct adoptions.  I introduced no kill to some of these amazing people.  I enthusiastically told them “You must, must read the book Redemption.  It will change your views on everything animal rescue related”.  It did.  They invited Nathan Winograd into town and had him present to a packed venue.  People loved the ideas around no kill and it seemed to magically arrive for shelters at a much needed time.

There was a time, not too long ago, when many shelters were taking in animals, holding them a specified period of time, and euthanizing them if nobody claimed them.  There was also a time that shelters euthanized based solely on time limits, easily managed diseases, breeds, and ages.  Animals weren’t treated as individuals, they were treated as timelines and arbitrary labels, and euthanasia decisions were based on them.

I began to volunteer more frequently at this animal shelter.  They hired a new leader who did amazing work for the organization.  This person drove no kill initiatives that allowed direct adoptions and heavily increased the amount of animals being sent to live outcomes.  This is when I started to notice trends as the shelter was striving for 90%.

The positive trends were: animals being treated as individuals, play groups, fee waived adoption promotions, more foster homes, more adoptions, more resources available to keep animals in homes, more spay/neuter options, and less euthanasia.  Arguably, the no kill movement was doing a lot of good.

The negative trends were: the cages were always full (sometimes overfull), and more disease outbreak and progression, e.g. kennel cough to pneumonia.  But, the more disturbing trend to me was the mental degradation of animals in shelters, oftentimes as their length of stay increases.  Shelters are loud, high stimulation places.  If you keep adding more energy to the mix, and overfilling cages, the energy keeps going up more and more.  Some dogs begin to exhibit increased signs of mental anguish, such as: red eyes, spinning, low connection to humans, increased lack of impulse control, and in extreme cases were starting to self-mutilate.  As more animals come in, the less individual attention each animal gets.  This lack of attention as resources are spreading thin, is mentally breaking some of the animals.  Once they break, less people handle them, and less homes are available to adopt them because most people look for a family pet, not a long term project.

This was the moment I started to question the no kill movement and quality of life issues.  I was starting to feel that a 90% save rate was an arbitrary benchmark.

I began to question if my local community is different than others across the nation?  The answer is no.  The Austin municipal shelter touts a 98% save rate of their animals.  But, they recently told the news they have over 800 animals on-site, more than double the amount of cages, and are “reaching a breaking point”.  Animal care centers in NYC “are packed to the rafters with stray dogs and cats, leaving some of the animals in stand-alone crates and kept anywhere there’s room, including under tables”.   In 2016, Lifeline Animal Project managing both Fulton County Animal Services and DeKalb County Animal Services in Atlanta are "beyond comfortable capacity with over 800 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens awaiting adoption”.  A more recent press release stated that they had 1300 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens in their care needing loving homes.

The examples above are of larger animal shelters.  There are many stories of smaller organizations as well.  Do a quick search on the Humane Society of West Florida, Oreo’s Legacy Rescue, Bully Breed Rescue CT or The Bully Life Animal Services to get a glimpse into smaller rescues who were shut down for not taking appropriate care of their animals.  If you delve further into smaller organizations, they are oftentimes taking animals from larger organizations.   Animals that move from a larger organization to a smaller organization are counted towards the 90% save rate, even though the animal may stay at the new rescue for months or years.  They may even get passed on to another rescue, and the pattern continues.

No kill proponents continue to sell the successes: euthanasia in animal shelters are down and adoptions are up, which is true.  But, this is only part of the story. The other part of the story is quality of life for the animals while they are in shelters.

The Farm Animal Welfare Council defines quality of life as these Five Freedoms.

Freedom from Hunger and Thirst: by ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigor.

Freedom from Discomfort: by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area.

Freedom from Pain, Injury or Disease: by prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment

Freedom to Express Normal Behavior: by providing sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the animal’s own kind.

Freedom from Fear and Distress: by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering.

Even though it was originally defined for farm animals, The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) states that: “These principles are relevant and appropriate measures of welfare for any animal species”.  And, they came up with a Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters “to help any sheltering operation meet the physical, medical, and behavioral needs of the animals in their care” and tied it directly to the five freedoms.  Surprisingly, another gauge was defined by no kill proponents.  This document is titled the Asilomar Accord.  The Accord was an innovative, inclusive way to categorize animals that comprise shelter populations.  The categories include: Healthy, Treatable, Unhealthy & Untreatable.  Both documents are quick to point out that the intention isn’t to assist in euthanasia decisions.

So, what’s next?  Many of us are waiting for somebody to blink around these issues.  I believe we can all blink together.  No kill proponents willingly led the public into a great movement, now they need to be a part of the next phase.  But, this can only happen if we look in the mirror and see how the no kill movement contributed to the overcrowding taking place in many shelters across the US.  We need to take that 90% benchmark and say thanks for the improvements, but let’s reevaluate our next move, and not base it solely on a number that is proving to promote inhumane treatment of companion animals.  We need to drive fixes to these issues, by acknowledging each community, and their resources available as an individual - just like the animals they serve.  We need to celebrate the shelters who say enough is enough and embrace quality of life, giving it the same consideration as adoptions being up and euthanasia being down.  We need to consider death with dignity for animals animals, yes I said it, who are consistently suffering in shelters, and who have no other immediate options available - due to a lack of resources.  This has to be the next phase of no kill, it cannot continue as-is.  As the Austin municipal shelter stated, we are “reaching a breaking point”.

I write this as I look at two pit bull mixes lying next to me.  Before the no kill movement, these two dogs would have likely been euthanized shortly after intake for having a blocky head.  Thankfully, they weren’t, because they are two of the most loving animals I’ve ever owned.  But, I also look at them and think of the conditions they could have lived in for months or years in the name of an arbitrary benchmark.  And, I realize that endless suffering is oftentimes worse than death.

[therecordnerd]

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[palmbeachespaul]

Beautiful newly updated 3BR/2BA home in Boynton Beach Florida. Perfect for those with boats, trailers, RV, or commercial vehicles and the backyard is great for any size or breed of dog and has room for a pool. This home has no HOA!! . . Contact me for details and a private showing Priced at $359,000 . . Paul G. Lykins Broker Associate True Floridian Realty BK-3265266 Paulglykins@gmail.com . . . #palmbeachcounty #boyntonbeach #lakeworth #realtor #movingtoflorida #homebuying #dogs #nohoa #boating #homebuyers #ListWithLykins #dogsallowed #pitbulls #petadoption #nokillshelter #petrescue #delraybeach #southfloridahomes #listings #mls #homesforsale #fsbo (at Paul G Lykins at True Floridian Realty) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Ki5gegnNH/?igshid=1706wwgl6ikll

[scarycloset]

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#Chucky will be looking for his new #foreverhome soon. #adoptabestfriend #nokillshelter 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈 Look for the worlds first animatronic #childsplaymovie #creepydoll only at a #Monsterpalooza near you. Brought to you by: #TheScaryCloset (at MONSTERPALOOZA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv-vmtxlVCV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jmnx1ul1hgnm

[animalhelpuy]

Actualización de rescates nuevos en ANIMAL HELP URUGUAY

AARON, un cachorro hermoso muy travieso que nos abandonaron, STEFFY, una perrita adulta joven, muy bonita y chiquita, ahora muy alegre, ella fue abandonada cerca de ANIMAL HELP URUGUAY, PANTERA una gatita negra, con sus 4 hijos, abandonados en nuestro portón, envuelta en malla sombra dentro de una caja, MILLY, una perra gris flaquita, se ve  que había tenido cría y le sacaron a sus hijos, para abandonarla  con una gruesa cadena al cuello, ella es joven  y pese a todo muy alegre, AMIGO, perro grande caquéctico, abandonado por sus dueños ahora con nosotros, no se para 📣 Pedimos difusión para lograrles hogares amorosos🧸 ANIMAL HELP URUGUAY Cel. +598 94676181. 📣 ✅Difunde, ✅Regístrate, ✅Colabora, ✅Adopta ✅Apadrina, 🧸Donaciones: 🆘Abitab 10.605 o puedes colaborar por 🆘Mi Dinero de Red Pagos 14732586, 🆘 Brou $U 000296849-00002 o Brou U$ 000296849-00001   📣 Youtube👍, Instagram y Facebook www.facebook.com/animalhelp.org click en ME GUSTA 👍 califícanos con 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ para ampliar redes de ayuda animal. Suscríbete: http://animalhelpuruguay.org.uy/suscribete/

[finsup-pal-blog]

Hello everyone! I’m making this blog as part of an assignment for school, and to help out a local animal shelter. My name is Celia, and I’ll be posting cats and dogs that have been at Palmetto Animal League here, I’ll feature pictures of them as well as part of their story. This handsome boy is my dog I adopted in April 2018, and he turns 4 years old this month. His name is Axel, and he is a German Shepherd mix who loves to protect me, my husband, and our home. Hopefully, some of the others at the shelter find a home because of this blog!

[woftd]

Tomorrow Im taking on a very unique freestyle challenge in support of the @richmondspca at their Block Party! Word is they’ve got something special lined up for me. Whatever it is, I’m ready. #RichmondSPCA #SPCA #nokill #nokillshelter #blockparty @strangefamousrecords #StrangeFamousrecords #RVA #NoW #SPCA #WOFTD (at Richmond SPCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWsthiPXvH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[louisvelazquez]

00Kitty on the prowl lol, I dig having fun with these pieces , #1 in this series which some of the net proceeds from every one sold will be donated to various no kill shelters that are making a difference #nft #art #nftart #artwork #catsofinstagram #catlovers #nokillshelter https://www.instagram.com/p/CYCIQkNFvFX/?utm_medium=tumblr