{"id":757962,"date":"2019-08-16T07:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757962"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:47:13","slug":"the-us-state-of-delaware-is-being-recognized-as-the-first-no-kill-state-for-animal-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757962","title":{"rendered":"The US state of Delaware is being recognized as the first no-kill state for animal shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Last year, about 733,000 dogs and cats were killed in US animal shelters, simply because they didn't have safe places to call home. We can change that and achieve no-kill for dogs and cats nationwide by 2025.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AMANDA JACKSON:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Delaware is making history as the first and only no-kill animal shelter state in the country, according to Best Friends Animal Society, a non-profit animal welfare organization For a state to be deemed &#8220;no-kill,&#8221; it must achieve at least a 90% save rate for all cats and dogs entering its shelters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Last year, about 733,000 dogs and cats were killed in our nation&#8217;s animal shelters, simply because they didn&#8217;t have safe places to call home,&#8221; the group&#8217;s website reads. &#8220;Together, we can change that and achieve no-kill for dogs and cats nationwide by 2025.&#8221; Best Friends also says, &#8220;We recognize that, for some animals, euthanasia is the most compassionate choice&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Linda Torelli, marketing director of Brandywine Valley SPCA&#8230; says that some of the programs that have helped Delaware become a no-kill state include mega adoption events, trap\/neuter\/spay programs for cats that otherwise wouldn&#8217;t be adoptable, low-cost veterinary clinics, education programs and behavioral programs for dogs who need a little more support.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>You can view your state&#8217;s statistics on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestfriends.org\/2025-goal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best Friends&#8217; website.<\/a> The organization pulls data from the Shelter Animals Count national database along with public websites, government-provided data and voluntary submissions&#8217;.<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/11\/us\/delaware-no-kill-shelter-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuYqmEMtZNc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMANDA JACKSON: &#8216;Delaware is making history as the first and only no-kill animal shelter state in the country, according to Best Friends Animal Society, a non-profit animal welfare organization For a state to be deemed &#8220;no-kill,&#8221; it must achieve at least a 90% save rate for all cats and dogs entering its shelters. &#8220;Last year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,21,22,25],"tags":[26,30,35],"class_list":["post-757962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-kisnship","category-morality","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757964,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757962\/revisions\/757964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}