"One person can't do it all." "You can't save all of them." So many friends and family members have told me these things. When it comes to dogs and cats, it's true. *I* cannot save them all. *You* cannot save them all." But *together*, we can save a lot of them, maybe even all of them.
In communities all across the United States, people are saving virtually all the dogs and cats whose only crime is being homeless. In late July 2011 I attended the No Kill Conference in Washington DC. I learned that there are more than 17 million cats and dogs likely to be adopted or purchased each year, and about 4 million killed in shelters every year. Even if a shelter or pound or animal rescue never kills another companion animal, there are plenty of homes for all of them. We--you and I--just need to imagine how to better connect with those homes. If we eliminate killing (aka "euthanasia," "putting to sleep") as an option, we will come up with alternatives.
See the "No Kill 101" primer about 3/4 of the way down the page at http://www.rescue50.org/groups.html for the .pdf that gives me hope.
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