{"id":1191,"date":"2012-01-05T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-if-shelters-didnt-euthanize-animals.html"},"modified":"2012-01-05T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T13:34:03","slug":"what-if-shelters-didnt-euthanize-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-if-shelters-didnt-euthanize-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"What if shelters didn&#8217;t euthanize animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"Some places are looking beyond the details of how to euthanize\nanimals in shelters or how to control the drugs used to doing\nsomething about the idea of euthanizing animals in the first place.\n<p>\nSue Manning wrote for AP today,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16029\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=RRmeBTGK\">\nEuthanasia to control shelter population unpopular<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nNathan Winograd, director of the Oakland-based No Kill Advocacy Center,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16029\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=RRmeBTGK\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/img.vrvm.com\/media\/render.htm?m=366529107&#038;width=185\"><\/a>\nbelieves 95 percent of all animals entering shelters can be adopted or\ntreated. And even though the other 5 percent might be hopelessly injured,\nill or vicious, he said they should not all be doomed.\n<p>\nSome, if not most of them, can be cared for in hospice centers or\nsanctuaries, he said. As for pit bulls and other dogs with aggressive\nreputations, he said shelters need to do a better job of trying to find\nthem homes.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat story has some interesting discussion of difficulties of getting to\nsuch a goal and methods of achieving it.\nMaybe we could have such a discussion around here.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some places are looking beyond the details of how to euthanize animals in shelters or how to control the drugs used to doing something about the idea of euthanizing animals in the first place. Sue Manning wrote for AP today, Euthanasia to control shelter population unpopular Nathan Winograd, director of the Oakland-based No Kill Advocacy [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,324,70,2,3],"tags":[3238,3233,3071,1364,77,8728,3235,3237,3234,3236,8700],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animals","category-ethics","category-government","category-transparency","tag-adopt","tag-animal","tag-animal-shelter","tag-discussion","tag-drugs","tag-ethics","tag-euthanazia","tag-neuter","tag-shelter","tag-spay","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}