"Marty" wrote in message
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A few questions:

How do shelters that don't euthanize keep the pets? Do they cut off
the amount of pets they can take in once they reach a certain point?
Are pet shelters that don't euthanize preffered over ones that do?

Thanks,
Marty

Generally, "no-kill" facilities are limited enrollment, which means that
they do not accept every animal that walks in the door. Or it means that no
"adoptible" animal is euthanized, and the criteria of "adoptibility" can be
so strict as to make 7 out of my 8 be considered "unadoptible". And, all
limiting enrollment into a "no kill" facility does is push the job of
euthanasia off onto the facilities that do have open enrollment and have to
accept all animals (like a municipal shelter). It doesn't elminate
euthanasia, just shifts the location and statistics where it occurs.
Sometimes, it leads to more animals being dumped on the roadside if there is
no other facility that can take them. The real answer isn't trumpeting "no
kill" facilities, but spaying and neutering all intact animals (free if need
be) until there is *no* "surplus" pet population.

Sunflower