No Kill Quick Facts
Defining No KillA shelter or community achieves No Kill when it ends the killing of all non-irremediably suffering animals. “Irremediable physical suffering” means an animal who has a poor or grave prognosis for being able to live without severe, unremitting pain even with prompt, necessary, and comprehensive veterinary care.
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Innovative ModelNo Kill is an innovative, cost-effective model of animal sheltering that allows open admission animal control shelters to end killing. Unlike the “adopt some and kill the rest” form of animal sheltering that has dominated in the United States for the past 100 years and is responsible for the needless deaths of millions of healthy and treatable animals every year, No Kill shelters are saving as high as 99% of all animals entrusted to their care.
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No Kill EquationThe No Kill Equation decreases a shelter’s impounds and increases a shelter’s reclaims while vastly expanding adoptions. When implemented comprehensively and with integrity, these programs are transformative.
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Cost EffectiveNo Kill is good policy that reduces costs associated with killing, enhances community support, increases user fees such as adoption revenues, and brings in additional tax revenues.
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StatisticsThere are roughly two million dogs and cats killed in U.S. shelters annually because they lack a home, but as many as 30 million Americans add a new animal to their households every year. We do not have a “pet overpopulation” problem; we have a market share challenge. When shelters compete for the market share of homes and keep animals alive long enough to find those homes, shelter animals are saved rather than killed.
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Good Public PolicySeven out of 10 American believe that it should be illegal to kill animals in shelters unless those animals are suffering or are dangerous. As such, No Kill is a bipartisan issue with broad public support.
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