No Kill Learning | The No Kill Equation

TNR Trapping, sterilizing and releasing feral or community cats is more effective, more cost effective and more humane than catching and killing them.	Adoptions A fun and engaging adoption program that utilizes good customer service and creative marketing will get immediate results and save lives.
Spay/Neuter Reduce future intake to the shelter via surgical sterilization. Spay/neuter programs are great. Mandatory spay/neuter laws, on the other hand, are terrible.	Rescue Groups Partnering with the rescue groups in your community is a great way to get animals out of the shelter alive.
Foster Care Some pets are best cared for outside of the shelter. For them, foster homes are the best! A good foster program can also help expand the network of people care for pets, and helping to get them adopted.	Pet Retention An effective pet retention program keeps animals out of shelters that don't need to be there while also helping people to become better care-givers to their pets.
Rehabilitation Animal shelters frequently take in animals that have been abused or neglected, resulting in needed behavioral or veterinary care. Failing to provide that care simply re-victimizes the animals.	The Public You can't save lives without them, so stop blaming the public for the challenges at the shelter. Instead, engage them and invite them to help.
Volunteers Volunteers are free resources that can expand the work being done. You can use them in every area of your operation.	Redemption It is not enough to bring stray animals to the shelter and then hope their families find them. With a good proactive redemption program, shelters can keep pets out of shelters and find their families, saving money, time, lives and building community support.
Leadership Effective leadership is the most important - and most overlooked - component of the No Kill Equation.

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The No Kill Equation...

The No Kill Equation is a set of 11 elements that when implemented comprehensively in animal shelters can eliminate the killing of healthy or treatable animals. Though they certainly to take effort to implement each component is relatively simple to understand.

The compotents are:

Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for free-roaming cats
Comprehensive Adoptions
Low-cost Spay/Neuter services
Cooperation with Rescue Groups
Foster Care
Pet Retention efforts
Medical and behavioral Rehabilitation
Engaging The Public
Volunteers
Proactive Redemption
Effective Leadership

For more information about each component, click the links above, or use the interactive slideshow at left for a brief overview.

TNR

Trapping, sterilizing and releasing feral or community cats is more effective, more cost effective and more humane than catching and killing them.

Adoptions

A fun and engaging adoption program that utilizes good customer service and creative marketing will get immediate results and save lives.

Spay/Neuter

Reduce future intake to the shelter via surgical sterilization. Spay/neuter programs are great. Mandatory spay/neuter laws, on the other hand, are terrible.

Rescue Groups

Partnering with the rescue groups in your community is a great way to get animals out of the shelter alive.

Foster Care

Some pets are best cared for outside of the shelter. For them, foster homes are the best! A good foster program can also help expand the network of people care for pets, and helping to get them adopted.

Pet Retention

An effective pet retention program keeps animals out of shelters that don't need to be there while also helping people to become better care-givers to their pets.

Rehabilitation

Animal shelters frequently take in animals that have been abused or neglected, resulting in needed behavioral or veterinary care. Failing to provide that care simply re-victimizes the animals.

The Public

You can't save lives without them, so stop blaming the public for the challenges at the shelter. Instead, engage them and invite them to help.

Volunteers

Volunteers are free resources that can expand the work being done. You can use them in every area of your operation.

Redemption

It is not enough to bring stray animals to the shelter and then hope their families find them. With a good proactive redemption program, shelters can keep pets out of shelters and find their families, saving money, time, lives and building community support.

Leadership

Effective leadership is the most important - and most overlooked - component of the No Kill Equation.

Dive Deep into No Kill Sheltering by Watching These Videos:

The No Kill Equation...

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