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No Kill is a target for No Kill Shelters. Most are in the high 80% range to low 90% range for saving lives.
No Kill Target Defined: No healthy adoptable animal shall be put down. It's a place where all healthy or treatable animals are saved.
No Kill Primer This will give you a good understanding of what No Kill is and what needs to be done.
Most traditional shelters are about 50/50 with saving lives. Memphis, though, is killing 87.93% of it's animals. So where a No Kill saves 90% and up, of its animals, Memphis is currently just saivng 18.55% of its animals. This system that is being accepted here in Memphis is beyond evil.
What needs to be done:
Through your pet retention program, you reduce the number of people who surrender their animals after you help solve their problems by 59%.
Through your proactive efforts to get strays home, you triple the percentage of dogs and increase seven-fold the percentage of cats being reclaimed by their families.
Through your TNR program (Trap-Neuter-Return), many feral cats don’t come into the shelter. Through your barn cat program, when they do, they go into barn homes.
Through your low cost spay/neuter program, almost 70% of people with unsterilized animals get their animals altered.
Through your partnerships with rescue organizations, your volunteer foster parents, and medical and behavior rehabilitation programs, animals are moving expeditiously through the system and into the care of the community.
And then, you turbocharge your adoption program. What would be the result? For the animals who remained in your shelter, you will have adopted your way out of killing.
No Kill Advocacy Center's free guide: Adopting Your Way Out of Killing.
The No Kill Equasion (PDF)
No Kills getting Starter Grants from Maddie's fund
And, for more about No-Kill see PawsChicago and the Nashville Paw Magazine.
Here is a great slogan for The Memphis No Kill Animal Shelter: Come Here First
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