No-Kill Shelters

No-Kill shelters can be misleading, simply by nature of the term "No-Kill".

Let me use this Post to add a little insight, with respect to No-Kill shelters. I do some volunteer work for a local shelter of such nature & while they never put down a healthy animal, there has been rare occurrences when they have humanely had an animal put down. Instances include, being struck by a car, attacked by other animals, ill, or any reason that could not allow the animal to live on without suffering.

This is not the case with Herbie, referencing another Post where Herbie was mistakenly euthanized. But in that particular case, Herbie should still be with us! There should be measures in place, layers if you will, to prevent this from ever happening!

Sadly, some animals, for their sake, need to be put to eternal rest. And financial considerations also come into play. If the vet diagnoses no chance of survival, yet the animal is still alive, the person, or persons in charge of that decision, must take into account the extreme costs of expensive medical care for animals, which will not survive the medical issues they are dealing with, versus all the good the money can do to all the animals healthy & awaiting adoption. Most rescue shelters survive on donations alone. I am certainly glad I would never have to be responsible for a decision as such. And while some shelters are No-Kill by name, hard, painful decisions must sometimes be made, for the best for the animal in question & all the other animals that need to be fostered &/or adopted at a given shelter or rescue org.