Comments for "We Are a No Kill Nation"

Comment on Breed Ambassador: Bastardized by jon bozak

jon bozak — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:12:57 +0000

Such great points. The Ambassador program doesn’t change a thing, really.

Comment on Transforming Your Community by Matt DeLuca

Matt DeLuca — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:02:00 +0000

Nathan Winograd rocks!

He is a good man who truly loves animals, especially companion animals, and he wants them to be saved, instead of murdered. He wont give an inch and he shouldnt. He happens to be right.
The concentration camps (kill “shelters) need to be torn down (figuratively) and replaced with no-kill shelters, which are the only true shelters.

Nathan Winograd is a true friend to animals, and I think he is awesome for telling it like it is, and helping to expose frauds such as PETA, HSUS, ASPCA and others who choose death over life.

His book Redemption is a blueprint for any true animal lover who runs a shelter and who wants to make it a no-kill shelter.

Nathan is a true hero. Keep up the great work, Nathan, and Sue, you are doing a great job with the site.
I share your and Nathan’s sites with all of the animal lovers I know.

No-Kill is the way for any true animal lover to go.

A “children’s advocate” wouldnt condone children being killed in “children’s Shelters”.

An “abused women’s” advocate would not tolerate abused women being killed in “abused women’s shelters”.

True animal lovers and advocates do not tolerate animals being killed in “animal shelters”.

Killing cats and dogs is equally as wrong as killing children and abused wives is.

We are ALL precious souls, who deserve to live, love and to be loved.

When the cat and dog murderers get that through their thick skulls (or when society rams it into those thick skulls by protesting such murder) we will then become a no-kill nation.

Comment on Humane Disconnections by Lynn Orbison

Lynn Orbison — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:38:29 +0000

What about the mother dog that eats her own pups?

I had a pig who attacked her newborn piglets too…I had to snatch them and hide them to keep her from destorying her entire family. She became an excellent mother later on after the pain of birth and the strange hormonal shifts settled down. But we didn’t breed her a second time.

What about the wild animals that kill the eggs or the newborns of their new mates in order to ensure that it is THEIR genetic material that carries on?

Nature is NOT humane. Why are we expecting humankind to get there? (Because I really DO expect humans to be humane…and I’m just wondering if that is a logical or wise thing.)

Comment on Breed Ambassador: Bastardized by Kami's mom

Kami's mom — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:25:08 +0000

I admit my pitbull isn’t an ambassador of her breed. She can be destructive to the unlucky dog toy, and she sometimes forgets that we go out to potty. She can sit still for about three seconds. She can sleep and nuggle my feet for hours even though she’s not been asked onto the bed. She can be dog aggressive, and so isn’t left unattended with our other dogs although she’s always good with them when we’re here. But for all her imperfections (which I take credit for 99% of them) she is the ambassador of my heart, and for a dog that was thrown from a moving vehicle and who experienced who-knows-what before we literally resuced her, that is more than I could ever have hoped for.

Comment on Breed Ambassador: Bastardized by Tangi Adopt A Rescue - Joni

Tangi Adopt A Rescue - Joni — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:19:57 +0000

MOJO is a great looking pit and I am glad he found a home. If a dog has to be trained and perfect before being put up for adoption then we may never reach a time when we are a no-kill nation.

Comment on The No Kill Conference 2009 an Amazing Success by Tangi Adopt A Rescue - Joni

Tangi Adopt A Rescue - Joni — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:54:21 +0000

This news is so wonderful that tears are flowing. It is a good time and will be a better time for the pets in the US. Thanks for making this report and this blog. The more people read about no-kill and how it is working to save pets’ lives the more they will demand the same from their local animal shelters. Thank you!

Comment on Join The No Kill Nation’s New Online Community by Azar "Ace" Attura

Azar "Ace" Attura — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:15:27 +0000

An EXCEPTIONAL Conference!! Educational, inspirational and impressive!! How can I say “It (No-Kill) CAN be done” without also saying “It HAS been done — and YOU can do it too!!”

What impressed me deeply was the fact that the majority of shelter directors there who had successfully implemented No-Kill did it on a SMALL budget but with a BIG heart, GREAT imagination, Positive Determination and an “if you ‘build’ it, they will come” attitude.

I looked around at all the attendees, and for someone who has attended Animal Welfare Conferences for the past 12 years, I saw SO many people there that I did NOT know!! Well, I know them now!!

The workshops were very informative – I especially liked the way that the “Stress = URI” concept was reiterated, and how to keep the shelter kitties as stress-free as possible (some great examples were discussed, of how to do this).

I mentioned PetSmart Charities Webinars to some of the people I talked with over the weekend, and For those of you who may be new to the Petsmart Charities Webinars (free, online and telphonic 1 and 1/2 hr webinars on a variety of exceptional sheltering concepts), the next PetsMart Webinar has to do with No-Kill as well, and is titled:

“On the Road to Zero”

https://petsmartcharities.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=petsmartcharities&service=7

you may have to “Cut and Paste” those lines above, to get to the link.

With all the new information and all the inspiration I received this past weekend, I look forward to spreading the news of No -Kill (I sent my Animal Rescue friends in Florida 2 emails with attachments, of the No Kill Confrence, and they have already passed on that info to their colleagues in FL and other states as well).

It was a pleasure to meet all the wonderful dedicated caring folks this weekend!!

Ace

Comment on Humane Disconnections by Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:21:34 +0000

“I guess the difference for us humans is we can step back and look at it all and make the assessments we do, which is why so many people feel so differently about what they consider food or not, whether culturally or otherwise.”

I agree – and therein lies the rub. I think there will always be people for whom actively killing animals for food is the bright line, so to speak, and others for whom that line makes no more sense than any other, given the killing the remains on the other side of it such as habitat destruction.

Comment on Humane Disconnections by Michel Meunier

Michel Meunier — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:01:00 +0000

True … you look to nature to natural predators and prey, and there is no denial that the food chain is what it is … along with the suffering that entails for some. I guess the difference for us humans is we can step back and look at it all and make the assessments we do, which is why so many people feel so differently about what they consider food or not, whether culturally or otherwise.

Comment on Humane Disconnections by Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:27:38 +0000

A response: I was never held the illusion that farmed animals were “happy” and that this made killing them OK. There was an arbitrary line.

If I answer emotionally rather than rationally I would actually say something like this: lions kill gazelles and they even kill cheetahs; for the most part, don’t kill other lions. I think I internalized a feeling of dogs and cats as “human community members.” That, again, on an emotional level, is the difference for me.