Does AGC operate a “no-kill” shelter?
This issue continues to be both controversial and emotionally charged nationwide. A number of shelters today, particularly municipal facilities, find themselves confronted with the sheer volume of unwanted and abandoned animals that often times far exceed their capacity to care for them in terms of resources, facilities and funds. In some of these instances, the shelter has determined it necessary to euthanize certain numbers of animals based on varying criteria. This is never an easy decision and there are vocal critics making impassioned arguments on both sides of this debate. At AGC, we strive for a different approach to this problem. As with most shelters, we find ourselves restricted in the number of animals we can accept based on available space, resources, and money. We therefore only accept a manageable number of animals at any given time and thus find it unnecessary, in our case, to euthanize animals due to an overabundance. Euthanasia is utilized as a management tool in the c
