“We’re taking him to a shelter,” she says. I frown. “It’s a No Kill,” she assures me with a bright smile. “How do you know?” I ask. “Because they told me.” Where to start? I wonder.  This conversation encapsulates what we have yet to accomplish, but also how far we’ve come in the...

The No-Kill movement has taken off across the country! In every community, folks are embracing this humane concept of zealously and passionately saving lives, instead of taking the much easier route to eliminate homeless pets, by simply killing them. Thanks to Nathan Winograd and No Kill Movement, animal...

I’m pondering the questions of where the No Kill Movement is today — as a nation and in the community in which I lead these efforts among my fellow animal-welfare advocates.  Nationally, just a short year ago, the seminal work that brought it all together was published, and “Redemption”...

The “No-Kill” Movement Today: Winning the War of Discourse No-kill activists must not write off to “semantics” shelter industry insiders’ attempts eradicate the term “no-kill.” Instead we must understand and respond to these arguments about language as an attempt...

What has changed in the last year for our movement?  What has changed in the last year for the No Kill Movement is that we are making progress. Slow progress, to be sure, but lasting, meaningful change seldom comes overnight. The release of Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation & The No Kill...

Today in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin which is a small community composed of several cities (Appleton, Neenah, Menasha etc) the no-kill movement is a small ripple. The status-quo here is to do what has always been done without explanation and without apology.   Thousands of animals enter our shelters...

When I first heard about the no-kill movement, I thought of a “sanctuary” I had visited where dogs with dangerous temperaments were living out their lives in kennel runs, separated from other dogs because they were fighters, and not handled by people because they were biters.  Not much of...

I wish I could say my local humane society even wants to go no-kill let alone that it’s heading in that direction. The old guard is entrenched. But I have hope reading the stories on your website that old guards can be turned out and new ones turned on. But then I used to be part of that old guard....

NO KILL – THE VIEW FROM DESSIN ANIMAL SHELTER: Dedicating our small rural Pennsylvania shelter to the No Kill vision provides a microcosm of the No Kill vision’s status in the nation.  In brief, the No Kill vision in our community and the national movement’s status in the United States have both...

I live in Nova Scotia, Canada.  When 80 dogs were legally shot at a kennel in Pennsylvania in August 2008 I went and had a look at the laws here in Nova Scotia and found out that it’s still legal for our animal control officers here to shoot dogs as a way to euthanize them if they think they can...