Six Ways to Help Your Community Toward No Kill
To all of you new subscribers and those of you who don’t know me very well…yet, I am a completely avid animal lover! Right down to being vegetarian and having a local non-profit that helps save countless animals from euthanasia, so I make it a priority to include articles about pets in my blog. I hope a few of you out there are animal lovers, too.
I’m sure your community, just as mine, has an unbelievable amount of animals that are euthanized on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The numbers in my area are so inflated that it’s hard for me to sleep at night sometimes. 
But I am doing whatever I can to help remedy that and maybe…one day…I’ll have the pleasure of living in a no-kill community. Until that day, though, EVERY community with a pet overpopulation problem needs our help. This is what you can do:
- Spay and neuter your pets!
- Adopt a pet from your local high-kill shelter instead of buying one!
- Foster a needy pet! Open your heart and your home and save a life.
- Help raise awareness by finding out the facts about how many animals are euthanized each year at your local shelter. TELL EVERYONE you come in contact with.
- Support your local pet non-profits.
- Volunteer at your local shelter! Make life better for that one animal for at least a day by taking it for a walk, giving it hugs and kisses, etc. It will thank you, I promise.
Do you have any other ideas of how we can help our communities become no-kill? I would love to hear them!
Love,
Erin
Erin, this is such an important issue, and I have to thank you for raising it! As a fellow animal lover, high-kill shelters absolutely break my heart. In Chicago, we have an incredible non-profit organization/animal shelter called PAWS that is working towards making Chicago a “no-kill” city. Since opening up shop here in the ’90s, I believe they have halved the amount of cats and dogs that must be euthanized each year. Slowly, they are making this must-needed change!
I encourage everyone to donate to local animal shelters over the bigger non-profits such as the Humane Society and the World Wildlife Federation. While those organizations are doing amazing work, there’s a local shelter around the block that desperately needs dog food, volunteers, and money.
Thank you so much for this comment, Jorie! I agree that local shelters and organizations are the best place to volunteer and donate to!!
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