No Kill Advocacy Center – Nathan J. Winograd

PetSmart Charities: The Future of Sheltering is Killing

By Nathan J. Winograd | April 2, 2019March 23, 2020 by Nathan J. Winograd

This is a photo of a puppy who was banned from PetSmart because of the way he looks. This is the “vision” for the future PetSmart and PetSmart Charities aspire to. Animal Farm Foundation, NJ Animal Observer, and others have been sounding the alarm about a PetSmart Charities presentation by Roger Haston called “The Future of Animal Welfare.” The concerns relating to this troubling, regressive, and anti-animal video are many. Despite being called “The Future…

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The Week (of Mar. 25, 2019) in Review

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Ohio makes the “shelter pet” the official state animal; spending on animal companions tops $70 Billion with more people choosing adoption over buying; Petaluma, CA, places 99% of dogs; Henderson, NV, falsely claims to have achieved No Kill; New York City fudges its data to create the illusion of progress; and anti-No Kill zealots are trying to further harm animals in Pueblo, CO. Meanwhile, the Austin City Council unanimously embraces a 95% standard for its…

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Austin City Council Embraces a Minimum 95% Placement Rate

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Shorty is waiting for you at the Austin Animal Center. This week, the Austin, TX, City Council voted unanimously on a resolution in favor of a 95% minimum placement rate. The Austin, TX, City Council voted unanimously on a resolution to increase its minimum 90% placement rate in favor of a 95% minimum in its city shelter. While I would have liked to see a higher threshold — consistent with the success of the most…

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Governor Newsom: Ban Killing in CA Pounds

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 18, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

On behalf of the No Kill Advocacy Center, I wrote Governor Gavin Newsom asking him to help dogs, cats, and other animal companions by abolishing killing in California’s animal shelters. I told him that California kills more animals than any other U.S. state and we don’t have to. It’s uncivilized, it wastes taxpayer dollars, provides no public safety benefit or value, and it is absolute, irreversible, and irreparable. Moreover, everyone on death row in our…

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No Kill: Good Ethics, Good Business, Good Politics

By Nathan J. Winograd | March 1, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

The Hon. Ginger Nelson, Mayor, And Members of the City Council Amarillo City Hall 601 S. Buchanan Amarillo, TX 79101 Dear Mayor and Members of the City Council: The No Kill Advocacy Center is the nation’s premier national organization working to end the systematic killing of animals in U.S. shelters. We have assisted communities across the nation achieve placement rates greater than 90% and as high as 99%, with hundreds of cities and towns…

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Victory! Court Denies PETA’s Motion to Compel Disclosure of Confidential Informants

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 30, 2019February 3, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Dear Friends and Colleagues: As many of you know, PETA demanded in court that I reveal the names of PETA employees who spoke to me on condition of anonymity about PETA’s killing of animals. The information they provided was used to corroborate newspaper articles, on the record sources, government documents received under the Public Records Act, testimony and information from civil and criminal cases against PETA, videotape evidence, and admissions of killing by PETA…

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Study: Adoptions up, killing down thanks to No Kill Equation

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

A dog available for adoption from the Humane Society of Fremont County, one of the brightest spots in Colorado’s constellation of progressive sheltering communities. A new study analyzing 15 years of intake and outcome data for animal shelters in Colorado finds that adoptions dramatically increased, killing dramatically declined, and Colorado could easily be a No Kill state. The study identified several programs of the No Kill Equation, such as community cat sterilization, public relations and…

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Victory for Free Speech is Victory for Animals

By Nathan J. Winograd | January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 by Nathan J. Winograd

Animals in “shelters” and pounds have no voice of their own and need others to speak for them. In a victory for free speech — and a victory for anyone who has spoken out on behalf of animals mistreated, abused, and killed in city pounds — a Federal Court of Appeal ruled for the first time yesterday that public officials cannot censor comments or block individuals on their official social media pages for criticizing…

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Delaware Mandates Community Cat Sterilization

By Nathan J. Winograd | October 4, 2018 by Nathan J. Winograd

Delaware Gov. John Carney signs the cat bill into law. The State of Delaware has taken another step forward by protecting community cats and making community cat sterilization the preferred method of “animal control” throughout the state. This week, the Governor signed HB235 which mandates that “visibly healthy cats admitted to a shelter, not placed for adoption, and lacking discernible owner identification, are sterilized, vaccinated against rabies, ear-tipped, and returned to a safe location where…

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Good news for animals and animal lovers of NYC

By Nathan J. Winograd | September 27, 2018 by Nathan J. Winograd

New York City Council Member Robert Holden to introduce shelter reform legislation that prohibits convenience killing and mandates the programs and services of the No Kill Equation. This week, I received the exciting news that New York City Council Member Bob Holden has “started the legislative drafting process” for a shelter standards law based on the Companion Animal Protection Act (CAPA), the model shelter reform legislation written by the No Kill Advocacy Center, my organization.…