Hi, Debra. You may say you're not against no-kill, but it's clear you don't actually know what it is. The No-Kill Movement isn't about no-kill shelters. It's about no-kill communities, using the animal control policies of the No Kill Equation. Doing a crappy job with your adoptions is not part of the No Kill Equation, whether it means you don't do good matchmaking or that you don't do a good job promoting harder to adopt animals. That's just bad sheltering, no matter what the shelter calls itself. Regardless of the fact that it's not part of the No Kill Equation, I would suggest that believing two years in a kennel is worse than death is a morally indefensible statement. And if you DO have a long-term resident in a shelter, which does happen from time to time, then it's a key component of good sheltering that you utilize foster homes (part of the No Kill Equation), enrichment and behavior rehab (part of the No Kill Equation), and creative marketing (part of the No Kill Equation) to get that pet into a home.

Evelyn, you're again distracting. I have said this isn't about pets vs farm animals, it's about reforming animal shelters. Any animal who enters an animal shelter would be helped by the reform of animal shelters. You're the one who is trying to make this about pets vs other animals. It would be equally a distraction to challenge those trying to prevent the abuses of factory farms that they can't really care about battery hens if they aren't also down at their local shelter blockading the delivery of the Fatal Plus. All that does is GUARANTEE that neither movement will accomplish anything. Which is, of course, the point. If you're hanging out with your friends, knock yourself out making all the connections and looking at the bigger picture. But putting those constraints on a reform movement results in paralysis. That's the point.

I love you because you shared good news, but I love you MORE for doing fact-checking. You rock.