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the dirty little secret in the shelter communmity is the no-kills simply’stop accepting animals when they are full. the shelters that put down b/c they have too many, are the ones those animals the no-kills reject, wind up going to, often because their charters do not allow them to reject animals becuase they’re full.

so the no-kills get to maintain this image but know the animals they turn down will go to a shelter that can’t refuse them based ‘on space, and they may wind up euthanizing some to make room for newer arrivals.

i know this firsthand. the no-kills let other places’do the dirtywork for them.

The no-kill shelter in my region built a huge new facility about 2 years ago. It also had an extensive fostering program where volunteers take in the overflow and special needs animals. A woman I know is one of these volunteers. She just took in a litter of newborn kittens. These need a lot of special care such as constant bottle feedings. She has also taken in elderly and chronically ill dogs and cats.

This shelter also conducts a New Years Eve “raid” of the local kill shelters whereby this shelter rescues as many critters scheduled for euthanasia as they can.