[Not humor] …Once upon a time, there was a very good rescue organization. They had forty five ‘spaces’ for rescue animals. They were (and still are) absolutely top-notch. They were, (and still are) a “No-Kill” shelter. By the second year (this was 10+ years ago), more than half their compartments contained animals that would practically eat your face off, if you opened the cage-door. (Or it was just the front-half of the pet, and the critter had “daily-tubes-and-wires-forever’ going on. 😥)
But, they were staunchly “No Kill” (and also full) so they were unable to save twenty-plus pets-in-need every single week. One summer, back in the late nineties, they took in zero animals at all. Something had to be done.
So they finally did what a lot of “No-Kill” shelters do with those hazardous, “we-really-tried” unadoptables: They place them with “We-Will-If-We-Have-To” kill shelters….. and to be honest; I would rather see twenty three unadoptable animals make way for adoptable ones; any day.
My point: Before you decide that you are MORE, or LESS likely to support a group based on the “No Kill” badge, just understand that there are (necessarily) ways around it; that sometimes it’s a euphemism, and that despite the best-intentions of the organizers and volunteers who did all they could; there are good reasons to get certain cages empty, and back in operation.
I salute the folks that have put so much time and hope into a critter, just to run out of options, and have to refer back to the County or similar. Truly.
