When will the animal protection movement recognise it as such?
In the future, when historians record how it was that the tragic killing of animals in shelters was finally brought to an end, they will write of the moment when animal activists finally stopped blaming the public, and recognised the obvious but unpleasant reality that the real cause of shelter killing was the shelters themselves failing to do what was necessary to stop it; and when, armed with this knowledge, animal activists committed themselves to reclaiming leadership of these humane societies and SPCAs, and restored them to the original vision of their founders. As history inevitably marches towards a more compassionate world for animals, No Kill’s conquest of the status quo is inevitable. But how long it takes us to get there and as a result how many more millions of animals will be needlessly killed as result is entirely up to us. The power to change the status quo is in our hands.
