It boils down to money. If you commit to taking everything in, you can't
house them forever. My group is a no-kill group, however we turn animals
away every week. We keep them in our homes. We don't get public funds, just
the adoption fee and some donations.
--
Joe
http://www.jwpitt.com/cats.htm
Cat Rescue http://www.animalrescuefoundation.com
God created the cat so man could have the pleasure of petting the tiger


"Mary" wrote in message
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Those situations do happen,
but do any of you really think that the people doing the euthanasia enjoy
it
or that the shelter doesn't do everything it can to see that the ONLY
animals euthanized are terribly sick or terribly aggressive?

The shelter employees do not enjoy it. Euthanasia duty pays a lot more
than
regular duty and you're only allowed to do it so many months at a time
because
of the psychological stress. The shelter employees generally do everything
they
can to place an animal. I walk in there and they are talking up all the
dogs,
especially sweet dogs near the end of the alloted time. They offer to
foster
kittens at home. Most of the employees at Los Angeles city shelters are
great
and truly love animals. The problem is just really big and multi-faceted.
Everyone is trying to work on it to make LA no-kill. We'll see how it
goes.