Managed Intake is the biggest crock of crap to come down the pike in years. Leave the animals on the streets to fend for themselves or leave them with the people who called for help. People don't call for help with an animal unless THEY NEED HELP!! We have gone so backwards in animal care simply unbelievable yet everyone except us stupid people who step up because we care are getting rich off the backs of the animals they pretend to help. Like I have said before" Who protects them from us"???????
Dear Nathan, Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy and greed and Cult history of Best Friends Anìmal Society. Just like your previous exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of ASPCA in their significant advertising and fundraising, Best Friends Animal Society has an even weirder story in its Cult history. What happened to true Compassion and Love and Kindness for the homeless and voiceless animals who are Sentient Beings who deserve our respect and support? Let’s get back to teaching our children and their friends and families about the Importance of Love of Animals and why we need to continue every effort to find animal shelter managers and political leaders who really Care about Animal Rights and who will do whatever it takes to Save Animals and get them adopted in order to Make This a More Loving World == Each and Every Life Matters ❤️🐶😸
Alabama enacted a law in 2015 called the Animal Census Reporting Act that requires all animal shelters to create monthly reports that include a detailed data set of animal intakes and outcomes (by species) as well as costs and expenses. Most shelters in the state do not post the reports publicly. Those that do often use a format that does not match the state law, making it difficult to determine the live release rate. While doing research for the Alabama Animal Advocates website in support of Kristin Yarbrough, I spoke with many county officials who had never heard of the law. In some places, you cannot request the reports using a form, by letter or by email and you are required to physically go to the county to obtain the information which I consider to be in violation or our open records act.
All this is to say that I live in Alabama and even if I devoted weeks to researching data for all the shelters, I would not be able to complete the task. It is not helpful that one of the most wealthy nonprofit organizations in the state, the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (which holds multiple municipal contracts), no longer publishes census reports on its website and does not respond to requests for the reports suggesting there is something to hide. The reports I was able to obtain for 2024 showed a dog live release rate of less than 50% which seems inconsistent with the celebrity status of the CEO in the state who has a huge following, a tremendous amount of influence and routinely brings animals to her facility from outside her service area, including other states, through a partnership with The Bissell Pet Foundation.
The dashboard maintained by BFAS is full of data for nonprofit shelters which are inherently No Kill because they limit intake. I can't speak to what is happening in other states, but in my state the population control killing continues despite the fact that the No Kill Equation has been available for the taking for 20 years and can be used even in counties with tremendous resource challenges. We do have veterinary deserts. I would love to see BFAS put some money toward mobile spay/neuter/veterinary operations to take services to places where they are needed most.
I am shocked and troubled and deeply saddened for this revelation about Best Friends Animal Society. I spent a week there in 1998, a year after starting an organization to help all animals and a year before starting a cat rescue. I saw nothing but good by people working there to save animals. I looked at Best Friends as a model for what I wanted to do, provide sanctuary for animals who needed care. These many years later, a delegation from Best Friends visited our county animal services, which, by the way, is 1,000 times better than the animal control we had before, which killed most of the animals who came into the county shelter. Yet it is a fact that while the current county services say they are no-kill, they turn away people and pets in crises, leaving pets to fend for themselves.
Managed Intake is the biggest crock of crap to come down the pike in years. Leave the animals on the streets to fend for themselves or leave them with the people who called for help. People don't call for help with an animal unless THEY NEED HELP!! We have gone so backwards in animal care simply unbelievable yet everyone except us stupid people who step up because we care are getting rich off the backs of the animals they pretend to help. Like I have said before" Who protects them from us"???????
Dear Nathan, Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy and greed and Cult history of Best Friends Anìmal Society. Just like your previous exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of ASPCA in their significant advertising and fundraising, Best Friends Animal Society has an even weirder story in its Cult history. What happened to true Compassion and Love and Kindness for the homeless and voiceless animals who are Sentient Beings who deserve our respect and support? Let’s get back to teaching our children and their friends and families about the Importance of Love of Animals and why we need to continue every effort to find animal shelter managers and political leaders who really Care about Animal Rights and who will do whatever it takes to Save Animals and get them adopted in order to Make This a More Loving World == Each and Every Life Matters ❤️🐶😸
Alabama enacted a law in 2015 called the Animal Census Reporting Act that requires all animal shelters to create monthly reports that include a detailed data set of animal intakes and outcomes (by species) as well as costs and expenses. Most shelters in the state do not post the reports publicly. Those that do often use a format that does not match the state law, making it difficult to determine the live release rate. While doing research for the Alabama Animal Advocates website in support of Kristin Yarbrough, I spoke with many county officials who had never heard of the law. In some places, you cannot request the reports using a form, by letter or by email and you are required to physically go to the county to obtain the information which I consider to be in violation or our open records act.
All this is to say that I live in Alabama and even if I devoted weeks to researching data for all the shelters, I would not be able to complete the task. It is not helpful that one of the most wealthy nonprofit organizations in the state, the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (which holds multiple municipal contracts), no longer publishes census reports on its website and does not respond to requests for the reports suggesting there is something to hide. The reports I was able to obtain for 2024 showed a dog live release rate of less than 50% which seems inconsistent with the celebrity status of the CEO in the state who has a huge following, a tremendous amount of influence and routinely brings animals to her facility from outside her service area, including other states, through a partnership with The Bissell Pet Foundation.
The dashboard maintained by BFAS is full of data for nonprofit shelters which are inherently No Kill because they limit intake. I can't speak to what is happening in other states, but in my state the population control killing continues despite the fact that the No Kill Equation has been available for the taking for 20 years and can be used even in counties with tremendous resource challenges. We do have veterinary deserts. I would love to see BFAS put some money toward mobile spay/neuter/veterinary operations to take services to places where they are needed most.
I am shocked and troubled and deeply saddened for this revelation about Best Friends Animal Society. I spent a week there in 1998, a year after starting an organization to help all animals and a year before starting a cat rescue. I saw nothing but good by people working there to save animals. I looked at Best Friends as a model for what I wanted to do, provide sanctuary for animals who needed care. These many years later, a delegation from Best Friends visited our county animal services, which, by the way, is 1,000 times better than the animal control we had before, which killed most of the animals who came into the county shelter. Yet it is a fact that while the current county services say they are no-kill, they turn away people and pets in crises, leaving pets to fend for themselves.