Advocate for an Animal Friendly Louisiana

09/28/2026

09/28/2026

Especially true of shelters in the South. Hmmm, why would that be? Why has the South not progressed in the area of Animal Sheltering?

09/25/2026

When we call for a No Kill nation, we are specifically referring to the promise and success of open-admission No Kill Equation sheltering. We are referring to a shelter in the dictionary sense of the word: “an establishment providing food, protection from danger, and temporary housing for stray or unwanted animals.” The door is always open and animals find a new beginning, instead of the end of the line.

We are NOT referring to the fundraising scam where “managed intake,” “community sheltering,” and “Human Animal Support Services” are euphemisms for “no entry” and increases in placement rates are dependent on animals being turned away, abandoned, and left to suffer.

If the goal of a No Kill nation is to truly mean something, we must stay rooted in reality: a placement rate cannot be considered ethical if it comes at the cost of abandoning the very animals shelter staff are responsible for protecting. These animals do not cease to exist simply because municipal shelters fail to count them. They are still suffering, still dying, and their lives still matter.

Learn more: nokilladvocacycenter.org/the-toolkit/defining-no-kill.

07/17/2026

In too many communities, rescuers are scrambling to help animals and to counter the false narrative of No Kill success after local municipal pounds close their doors to animals in need.

Under Human Animal Support Services (HASS) — euphemistically referred to as “community sheltering” or “managed intake” — municipal pounds stop taking in strays (and often owner surrenders), telling people to handle the animals themselves, turn them loose, or leave them on the sidewalk. This puts the onus on residents to do the job they already pay shelters to do through their tax dollars. It also puts animals in harm’s way and ignores their right to rescue.

Read why “community sheltering” and “managed intake” too often means “no entry” and the danger this poses to animals: nokilladvocacycenter.org/the-toolkit/give-me-shelter

07/17/2026

When we call for a No Kill nation, we are specifically referring to the promise and success of open-admission No Kill Equation sheltering: https://youtu.be/JCTt5JppNA8?si=RarWDDab_7XK4WKL .

We are NOT referring to the fundraising scam where “managed intake,” “community sheltering,” and “Human Animal Support Services” are euphemisms for “no entry” and where increases in placement rates are dependent on animals being dumped and left to suffer on the street: nokilladvocacycenter.org/the-toolkit/give-me-shelter.

If the goal of a No Kill nation is to truly mean something, we must stay rooted in reality: a placement rate cannot be considered ethical if it comes at the cost of abandoning the very animals shelter staff are responsible for protecting. These animals do not cease to exist simply because municipal shelters fail to count them. They are still suffering, still dying, and their lives still matter.

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