WMNF | Aiming for ‘No Kill’ in Animal Shelters Across Country, Says Best Friends CEO

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Julie Castle, CEO of Best Friends Animal Society, the influential national animal welfare organization, and based in Kanab, Utah, explained in an interview with “Talking Animals” the rationale behind her “No Kill 2025”, a campaign by which Best Friends aims, in 2025, for all animal shelters in the country to adopt a “no kill” policy.

This means, Castle said, that under this policy – and in a context where a number of shelters are euthanizing animals because their numbers are too large for the facility’s capacity and too few adoptions – 90 % of animals in any shelter must stay alive. as a national benchmark: no more than 10% of shelter animals would never be euthanized, Castle emphasizing that this figure recognizes that there may still be a small group of cats and dogs that are so critically ill or incapable of behavior that it would be inhuman to preserve their lives unnecessarily.

In response to my observation that all kinds of animal organizations, large and small, stress the importance of “no kill”, but that it is extremely rare for an organization to engage in a deadlineCastle notes that she decided on the 2025 deadline, moving it five years earlier than the original master plan anticipated. This is how important and urgent she sees this matter and the need to work towards fixing it in all shelters across the country within four years. The best friends website is packed with information and content, including a feature that lets you rate how your local shelter (s) are doing in the quest for ‘no kill’.

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