24 Wild, Juicy Industry Secrets That Might Have You Rethinking Everything

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“I work at an animal shelter. Literally no one outside of animal welfare could tell you what a ‘no-kill’ shelter is. To be awarded ‘no-kill’ status, you have to have a live release rate of 90% or higher. This means that, technically, a facility that advertises itself as ‘no-kill’ just has to be placing 9 out of every 10 animals. Obviously, striving for any lower rate of euthanasia is a great deal, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain this to people.”

“Also, the vast majority of ‘no-kill’ shelters are closed-intake, aka managed-intake, shelters. This means they have zero requirement to accept any animals, and can cherry-pick the animals they accept based on whatever standards they want, and turn everyone else away. On the flip side, open-intake shelters are those required to accept animals, hence why they are pretty much always in a space crisis.”

—rubytjohnson