AR-News: (US-ny) No Kill, The New Goal In Animal Control

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A red pit bull was brought to the city's animal shelter in the Bronx
recently with two broken legs. A shelter official contacted Jane Hoffman
from the Mayor’s Alliance for New York City Animals, who called a private
veterinarian. The vet agreed to examine the animal for free, and do the
orthopedic surgery at a reduced rate, which was paid for by a charity set
up for this purpose called the Picasso Fund.

If it had been brought in just a year ago, chances are good that the dog
-- badly injured, homeless, and thus deemed un-adoptable -- would have
been killed.

Last year about 35,000 cats and dogs were reportedly killed at the five
shelters run by New York City’s Center for Animal Care and Control. At
least a third of them were healthy and not dangerous. They were killed –
euthanized, in the parlance of the field -- because there just wasn’t room
for them. This is the way it has been for decades. Every day, as many as
200 animals -- lost, homeless, unwanted, sick or injured – are taken to
these shelters. By the end of every week, about two-thirds of them have
been put to death.

full story:
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20040202/200/856

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