Can you explain the difference between traditional shelters, No Kill, and animal control agencies?
Specifically, an animal control agency is a sheltering agency that takes in all dogs and cats in a particular community and also enforces laws relating to companion animals. Historically, they were known as dog pounds. They can be public or private. In other words, they may be part of the government or operate under contract with government. An animal control agency can still be No Kill, but few are. A traditional shelter is one that is private but kills savable animals. And finally a No Kill shelter is one that is saving all healthy dogs and cats, sick and injured but treatable animals, and healthy and treatable feral cats. No Kill shelters can be public or private and even include animal control. More generally, it is probably safe to say that No Kill shelters dont kill savable animals, while traditional shelters do. 3) Why are traditional shelters so reluctant to go No Kill? There are several reasons, but the most common one is what I call institutionalized defeatism, which is the b
