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[Alex]

Disney's One Little Indian (starring James Garner, Vera Miles, and Jodie Foster) was mostly filmed in a canyon outside of Kanab, Utah.

The canyon is now owned by a single entity and is home to the very large Best Friends Animal Society, a no kill shelter*. If you're in the area it is definitely worth a tour (at least one structure was still standing from filming when we were there a couple years ago). It would be a good spot for a fund-raising screening (other movies were filmed in that canyon as well).


*I'm of the opinion that euthanasia is appropriate for unclaimed strays and feral pet species in most situations but this is the best no-kill situation I've ever seen.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

*I'm of the opinion that euthanasia is appropriate for unclaimed strays and feral pet species in most situations...

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.

[Alex]

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.

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.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

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.

For awhile, we were looking to get a dog in Hawai'i. So I visited the HHS several times a month looking for a dog to adopt. There were a few protester types around on a number of occasions. I'm sure she was one of them.

The BFAS looks like a cool place.