No-Kill Shelter Research Paper

High-kill vs. No-kill

Many people do not know that there is an issue regarding overpopulation in animals left on the street. Many of these animals end up in either two types of shelters: High-kill or No-kill. A High-kill shelter is a public animal shelter that hosts rescue organizations, in contrast, a No-kill shelter is a private animal shelter that do not kill, or euthanize, any animals they receive. High-kill are more beneficial to help the case of over-population in the amount of animals left on the street than No-kill shelters. High-kill shelters follow strict regulations to try and keep populating down, host non-profit animal rescue organizations, and attempt to maintain a good quality of life within the shelter. High-kill shelters keep strict standards when …show more content…
High-kill, (most) of us will readily agree that No-kill shelters have a better appeal than High-kill shelters. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question: Are No-kill shelters actually saving those animals’ lives? No-kill shelters have been proven to be much more dangerous and deadly for the animals they take in. These shelters happen to have a bad reputation within the veterinarian society. No-kill shelters fail to follow the same regulations as High-kill shelters. No-kill shelters fake statistics, alter definitions of words such as “adoptable” and “treatable”, as well as the fact that they refuse to spay and neuter animals they receive. Due to the fact that No-kill shelters refuse to euthanize any animals they receive, they tend to become over-crowded, creating a horrible living quality for the animals within the shelter. The reason that High-kill is a better option is because they try to get all adoptable animals into homes to decrease the amount of animals left on the streets, attempt to keep overcrowding in shelters down by switching said adoptable animal within different shelters, and keep a mandatory spay and neuter