Unobvious Choices: The Animal Protection Movement’s Fourteenth Floor
Understanding the opposition to shelter reform and innovation.
Understanding the opposition to shelter reform and innovation.
Our shelter system is broken. And in too many places, these facilities are little more than badly mismanaged houses of horrors. And I have the pictures to prove it.
The goal is not “no more animals being born.” The goal is, and has always been, “no more animals being killed.”
The first time many animals experience neglect and cruelty is at the very shelters that are supposed to protect them from it. Why?
If you were a cat and you happened to be stuck in a wall, where is the worst place for that to happen?
We must turn our attention away from the futile effort to hold or return our environment to some mythic state of perfection that never existed toward the meaningful goal of ensuring that every life that appears on this Earth is welcomed and respected as the glorious, cosmic miracle it actually is.
Can anyone with even a hint of compassion actually say it is better to kill baby kittens than bottle feed them? Kill animals rather than promote adoptions? Kill animals rather than work with rescue groups? Of course not.
No Kill Conference 2010 was a tremendous success. Read the keynote that opened up the two-day sold-out event in Washington D.C.
Delaware just passed the most progressive shelter law in the nation. And no one thought it was a bad idea.
The hard and painful lessons from the fight for Oreo’s Law.