everyone who says take a stray to a no kill shelter not to any other kind?

Question

what do you think happens when the no-kill (or limited capacity) shelters are full? most no-kill shelters have very limited space and they do turn animals away when they are full. so, what then? and just BTW, no-kill doesn't mean no euthanasia...

"send dogs to other shelters": how many no-kill shelters do you think there are?

euthanasia does happen to animals at no-kill shelters (some are too sick to justify keeping alive and some are farmed out to "other shelters" where they let them do it for them).

thanks NOT a black... and Bozema. i was trying to convey the idea that just because a shelter performs euthanasia does not make it a worse place to take a stray than a so-called no-kill shelter. recently some questions here were answered by people suggesting the only shelter a stray should be taken to is a no-kill. my point being, what do you do when that shelter turns you away. i think many people don't realize no-kills are really closed door/limited capacity shelters.

Answer 1

What a LOT of "no kill" shelters do is take the "pick" animlas...like none with behavior issues, health problems, or older animals. They favor the adoptables, and reject the UNadoptables. Sometimes, when they have unadoptables, they send them to another shelter so they can take more adoptable ones. This way they do not have to euthanize....the others can!!!!
Or many actually are called "no kill", but euthanize due to illness and behavior issues. For most, no kill means that they do not euthanize due to overcrowding.
There are way around the "no kill" designation when needed!!!
I have worked at a "no kill" for years and there IS and will always be euthanasia.

Yeah.."send them to other shelters"!!! EXACTLY!!!!!!! They send them to shelters that CAN and WILL euthanize them if necessary!!!! THERE is what really goes on!!!!!!

NO KILL cannot and does not mean they never put animals to sleep!! Geez, you get all kinds in. There are always some that are on their last legs and ANY shelter would put them to sleep!!

Some people really live in the fantasy world!!!!!!!

Answer 2

The best shelters I have ever come into contact with are "low-kill" shelters meaning that there policy is every animal gets to stay as long as it's adoptable. I've seen some dogs at the shelters I worked for stay 5 or 6 months before they found homes. No animal is turned away, which is why some of them are euthanized. This works out the best in a large shelter that usually doesn't fill to capacity.

No-kill shelters are great in idea, but like everyone else has brought up their aim isn't to help every animal, just the ones that they can easily help.

Answer 3

They turn animals away when they are full and they don't take aggressive or ill animals and some won't even take healthy older animals.

Most shelters are trying to do away with the term - it is unfair. So-called "no-kill" shelters get to choose the animals they accept and have the ability to hold them as long as they see fit. By law, most are unable to take strays - only owner relinquishments. Some still have to euthanize - when animals get sick or when they develop behavioral problems and become unadoptable. And if they never euthanize and hold unadoptable animals, they are denying space to many more animals that could be adopted.

So called "kill" shelters are county shelters that have to take every animal that comes through the door - the sick ones, the strays and abandoned animals, the aggressive ones, the old ones. When they get full, they have no choice but to euthanize some animals. These people have a tough job and deserve our respect.

Answer 4

The very first shelter I volunteered for was a no-kill. I remember several things...
People would dump animals in the exercise/potty runs outside...nightly. They started having to lock the runs. Then people would just leave animals tied outside, leave them in crates, or cats in carriers. Did they think that all of those animals would get a cage at the no-kill? Well, they didn't. They got shipped to the county shelter.
Another thing I saw... dogs that were going cage crazy. I have very mixed emotions about no-kill shelters. I think at a certain point it is cruel to have animals live their lives in a crate. There are wonderful "no-kill" shelters and then there are the ones that start with the greatest intentions... and then turn into a hoarding situation. Until the PMs and BYBs stop selling puppies to make a buck... we can't save them all.

Answer 5

I volunteer at a "No kill" shelter, and we are running low on space. sadly often the animals are sent to other shelters who do the killing for us, although it really is a first-come first-serve basis and if we have room we never turn an animal away. However with all the dog-fighting going on today, were simpally over run with pitbulls or pit mixes. these are really hard to find homes for, so they can often spend their entire lives in the shelter, and they are really beautiful dogs. I hate to see them getting killed but we also need to consider the odds they'll be adopted. I think the real message here is to have your pets spayed or neutered, and support animal shelters by donating and adopting, because we really are trying, but we need the communities to help us too.

Answer 6

If the shelter is full then they will make adopting specials or send some dogs to other shelters

Answer 7

Not all no kill shelters are the same.
Some send their overflow here;
http://www.bestfriends.org/atthesanctuary/

Answer 8

um, thats exactly what "no kill" means. they do not euthanize animals.

if people would have their dogs spayed and neutered and research breeds before getting them, this wouldnt be a problem.