The Humane League of Lancaster County in PA will cancel its 8 municipal animal control contracts in the upcoming months and begin operating as a limited admission no kill shelter in February. Critics are concerned that municipalities aren’t being given sufficient time to secure new AC services. Connie Kondravy, co-founder of the Organization for Responsible Care of Animals, has some additional concerns as well:
- “Animals running in the streets”
- “Pet overpopulation”
- “I’ve been in this business 30 years, and I never thought I’d see this day.”
- The Humane League is going to become a “little boutique shelter.”
- “[P]eople are just going to be dumping animals right and left.”
- “It’s absolutely insane.”
Also: GAH!
And speaking of absolutely insane, Ms. Condravy warns that someone needs to “step up to the plate” because:
“When you have a no-kill shelter, someone else is going to have to kill.”
Right. Because killing pets is the one and only plan that could ever exist in any realm of possibility. Never mind the fact that there are dozens of open admission no kill shelters all over the country. Never mind that killing shelter pets hasn’t solved anything anywhere ever. Because it’s easier not to do the research or the hard work of saving pets and simply blather on about animals running in the streets. A brilliant plan with no drawbacks. Unless you’re a shelter pet of course.
(Thank you Jan for sending me this link.)