Reforming Animal Control: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ending the Killing in Your Community

An excerpt from the No Kill Resource Library http://www.nokillsolutions.com/resources.htm

From coast to coast, citizens are rising up to demand fundamental changes in how shelters operate.

In response, health departments, town commissioners, cities, and even entire states are issuing No Kill proclamations and setting in motion the “winds of compassion.” No longer content with shelter directors who kill thousands of animals without much scrutiny, the era of the ineffective shelter is ending.

Unfortunately, the trend is not universal. Some animal control departments, and the government bureaucrats that protect them, are digging in their heels and circling the wagons. For these, a public fight may be unavoidable. But it is a public fight they will eventually lose.

The process may take time and energy, but the end results - animals whose lives will be spared - are well worth the struggle. No Kill’s triumph of the status quo is inevitable.

To quote the wise words of Martin Luther King Jr.: “We are marching no longer by ones and twos but in legions of thousands, convinced now it cannot be denied by any human force.”