No Kill Colorado

Colorado can be No Kill today.   

In Colorado, we have more adopters than needed for the healthy and treatable pets that die in our shelter system each year. Sounds crazy right? But according to the statistics released each year by PACFA (Pet Animal Care Facilities Act), it’s a simple truth.

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Shelters and rescues can save every healthy and treatable homeless pet if we value the lives of each individual homeless pet entering our shelter system.

No Kill Colorado is supporting lifesaving programs and services to make Colorado the safest state for homeless pets.

We work to create a better shelter system where no healthy or treatable homeless pet dies.  Colorado can do this.  We have an amazing culture of lifesaving and over 300 organizations to meet this goal!

No Kill Colorado believes both sides can do a better job. On the one hand, rescues should always look locally before driving out of state, or even out of the county. They should be pulling difficult-to-place pets whenever possible (some do). If rescues concentrated on local pets we could save every healthy and treatable pet a shelter is willing to release. But they should have more freedom to do this.

We also believe shelters should be able to work with rescues to get difficult to place pets out of their facility. Open admission shelters need to have strong rescue partners to help them in times of crisis. Overpopulation at shelters is both cyclical and emergency situations that arise. Colorado has state oversight of PACFA licensees. This active license should be the only criterion for saving lives by pulling from the shelter. Shelters should allow all 300+ licensees to pull any healthy or treatable pet they are considering killing.

The best outcome is for shelters and rescues to simply lower the barriers to getting pets out of the shelter and into rescues. If they cannot do it independently inside the state animal welfare network, Colorado should pass a form of The Rescue Act to open shelters up to all PACFA licensees.