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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
Out of curiosity, why? I worked at the Hawaii Human Society for 1 day during high school. They showed me 'the chamber' (empty, no animals) and I had to leave. They also showed us a film w/ before and after pictures and couldn't take it.
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First of all, I don't find the prospect of killing a non-pet dog or cat any more emiotional than killing a non-pet cow or chicken. So I don't have that objection that many have that somehow dogs and cats are uniquely deserving of protection.
But I certainly don't have a problem with no-kill. It is just that most places have neither the space, funding, nor staffing to properly manage the phenomenal quantity of such animals it would be necessary to house humanely. For cats sterilize and release is frequently an acceptable option (depending on need to protect local native habitat) but that won't work with dogs at all). Even if broad education and promotion programs result in adopting out every animal available the places still eventually fill up with animals that in good conscience can not be adopted (and BFAS has this problem, slowly their kennels fill with dogs they can't adopt out and they have a huge amount of space but it is still limited by funding and staffing).
You should have stayed longer at he Hawaii Humane Society because then we'd likely have a "small world" connection. My first landlord in Hawaii was a crazy old lady (and I mean that literally) whose only purpose in life beyond filling her house with junk was getting HHS and the City of Honolulu to stop euthenasia and implement a sterilize-and-release program for cats AND dogs. She was down there pretty much all the time for the previous 20 years.