An animal shelter in philadelphia is being forced to euthanize animals while their facilities are over capacity. Nobody runs a “ kill shelter ” because they just love euthanizing animals. · two shelter workers discuss the realities of these shelters , the challenges they face, and the reason the system is so broken. · one of the only open-intake shelters in philadelphia , it works to save and house all animals, regardless of their health or condition. And to the extent semantics matter, people that are big on educating the public on this issue often like swapping “ kill /no-kill” for descriptions of the intake process. · in a recent tiktok video that garnered hundreds of thousands of views, pickard shed some light on what goes on at so-called kill shelters. After the rescue spoke out against what mainstream media refers to as a kill shelter , isabel felt it was important to explain why the belief that kill shelters are inherently evil is. As such, there is a severe lack of space and resources to care for all the animals. They also look ahead to a possible foster-led future where euthanasia is in the past. · we want to not only provide funding and resources to rescues and shelters in need, but we also want to educate the pet community with factual information about what kill shelters are and how.
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