Manatee County, FL -- Manatee County Animal Services joins the growing list of open admission shelters pledging to making their community a No Kill community, where 90% or more of all animals entering their shelter leave alive. In his first in a series of weekly columns about “A View to No-Kill”, Chief Kris Weiskopf writes “This is a new beginning, a new Animal Services.”
Weiskopf describes how his philosophy towards animal sheltering changed after reading the book Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America by Nathan Winograd and attending one of his seminars.
Although there are eleven mandatory programs required to create a No Kill community, Weiskopf believes that the “key and most important part of the plan is for a hard-hitting dog and cat adoption program.” He writes, “we believe there are more people in Manatee County who want a dog or cat than we have dogs and cats available in our shelter.”
No Kill Nation congratulated Manatee County on taking this important lifesaving step. In their blog, they wrote
“This chief has been in position for over 13 years, and he was still able to open his mind and embrace a new, lifesaving concept. The many entrenched shelter directors who refuse to see any way but the status quo should look to Mr. Weiskopf’s example.”
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