Kill vs. No-Kill Shelters, part 4

One issue is that the problem is being misrepresented. According to the article, "the information being disseminated by many limited-admission shelters lulls the public into believing that the problem has been solved, and that they no longer need to worry about neutering their pets, keeping them at home and identified, adopting from shelters rather than pet stores, taking lifelong responsibility and doing all the things we keep preaching are necessary to eliminate the surplus pet problem."

Many limited-admission shelters agree that the public needs to be educated about the full scope of the problem. "Often the general public will call us and say, 'We want to bring our animal to you and not the city because they kill them.' We tell them that the city shelter takes all animals in and that they must euthanize because they handle a lot more animals than we do.

"So we try to educate the public so that they're not thinking 'they're bad people; they kill animals.' My philosophy is that if a healthy, placeable animal dies in a community, that’s a problem for all of us and not a matter of one agency being better than another." - Karen Medicus, limited-admission SPCA.

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