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Colorado can be No Kill today. Why isn’t it?
In Colorado, we have more adopters than needed for the healthy and treatable pets that die in our shelter system each year. Sounds crazy...
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Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Jul 11
Silent Shelter - An Important Film about Free Speech and Animal Shelters
We hear every week about shelter volunteers who have been silenced by shelter leadership as a condition of volunteering. Some have been...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- May 26
Revisiting the Subject of Mandatory Spay and Neuter
We have spoken in the past about something called Mandatory Spay Neuter (often referred to as MSN) and our opposition to MSN. We had a...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- May 10
No Kill in Motion Panel Discussions Update
We're a little behind in sharing our latest panel discussions here which are on our Youtube channel and shared on Facebook....
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Mar 18
No Kill in Motion: A New Conversation with James Evans of CARE
In this video in our No Kill in Motion series, Davyd Smith of No Kill Colorado has a conversation with CEO James Evans of CARE...
Davyd Smith
- Nov 28, 2021
Violence is the Last Refuge of the Incompetent
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” Foundation, a new series based on Isaac Asimov’s books by the same name, has brought an ol
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Oct 15, 2021
A Tale of Two Cities and the Power of Compassion
This blog was originally published by Paws4Change on September 14, 2020 and is shared here with permission. In one city, cats and kittens...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Oct 11, 2021
No Kill in Motion: New Math Which Doesn't Count Animals and Memphis Redux
No Kill in Motion - Shelter New Math and When Not All Animals Count When we calculate the Live Release Rate it is exactly what the words...
Davyd Smith
- Sep 30, 2021
Colorado has more adopters than pets losing their lives in the shelter system
An online recent article from KDVR announced the record number of pets entering Colorado for sale is increasing. But the number entering th
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Sep 27, 2021
No Kill in Motion: Rejection of Adopters and Keeping Focused on our Goal
Rejection of Adopters and Barriers to Adoption We hear all the time about adopters being rejected and about barriers to adoption. What...
Davyd Smith
- Sep 21, 2021
Homeless Pets Should Not Degrade Because They Enter a Shelter.
A news story from KOB4 in Albuquerque states, “Workers say some gentle dogs are becoming more and more dangerous.” This is the whole...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Sep 13, 2021
No Kill in Motion: Grey Zone Dogs and Mandatory Laws
Gray Zone Dogs We had a panel discussion recently in our No Kill in Motion series about "gray zone" dogs in animal shelters. These are...
Davyd Smith
- Sep 10, 2021
I Lost My Dog This Morning
So, my dogs got out of the yard today. One I found immediately; one I frantically drove around the neighborhood for a while looking for...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Jul 19, 2021
No Kill in Motion: Adoptions by Appointment, Advocacy and Animosity
The panel discussions below cover a host of topics. We hope they help you in some way. Adoptions by Appointment Only We've heard that a...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Jul 1, 2021
Shelter Hours Make all the Difference
I participated in a No Kill in Motion panel discussion recently about the subject of appointment-only hours for animal shelters. During...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Jun 22, 2021
No Kill in Motion: Results of the Shelter Study
In this panel discussion, we hear the results of the lengthy study performed by Alan Rosenberg of the NJ Animal Observer regarding well...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- May 25, 2021
No Kill in Motion - Use of Breed Labels for Shelter Dogs
The use of breed labels for shelter dogs has declined in recent years. Most dogs cannot be accurately identified just by looking at them...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- May 17, 2021
No Kill in Motion - The Status of Colorado House Bill 21-1160
We had an earlier panel discussion about Colorado House Bill 21-1160 which we felt was dangerous. We also blogged about the bill. The...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Apr 19, 2021
No Kill in Motion: A Discussion with Alan Rosenberg
We've shared before about the incredible research done by Alan Rosenberg of the NJ Animal Observer related to animal shelter data. In...
Aubrie Kavanaugh
- Mar 29, 2021
Why We Oppose Colorado House Bill 21-1160: It's Dangerous
In 2004, a conference was held in Pacific Grove, California which resulted in the Asilomar Accords which created definitions used to...