Kansas City Animal Rights Activist Explains 'NO-Kill' Complexity

About the author . . . 

Brent Toellner is a prominent animal welfare advocate and Senior Director of Lifesaving Programs for the Best Friends Animal Society. He is best known in Kansas City for co-founding the KC Pet Project and spearheading the city's transition to a no-kill shelter system.

In a recent post . . . He offers some explanation of a term that has cost locals MILLIONS and might even be related to a tragic death by way of pit bull mauling. 

 Here's the word . .  . 

"I often think that we are making our work harder by not embracing no-kill as a community goal or wanting to shy away from no-kill language.  

"When we don’t embrace no-kill language, we are throwing a huge amount of public good will and support out the window. We also can create a conflict with our public when we try to convince them that no-kill isn’t something they should want.  

"I would love it if the public was so invested in our work that we could have in-depth conversations with them and have their support. But people are busy and have other priorities.  

"They still want pets’ lives to be saved. And no-kill is their language for expressing that value. Regardless of what many of us in the industry think about the term “no-kill,” the language is no longer owned by us. The public owns it."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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