Rich Avanzino was interviewed on the radio this morning and says we need only do another 2.3 million adoptions from shelters to become a No Kill Nation. http://cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011395/weitz042214.mp3 That’s quite a lot of progress, down from 2.7 he said where needed in an interview with him just pubbed on the web yesterday. http://www.humanesociety.org/news/magazines/2014/05-06/schnauzers-legacy-maddies-fund-ending-pet-homelessness.html And that’s down from the 3 million I’ve seen before.
At this rate, we’ll be at No Kill status by the end of the week.
As I discussed in a previous blog, we don’t really know how many pets are in this country, much less how many people will be adopting next year. I think the day after I published my blog, this article came out. http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=31369 “Americans own 70 million dogs and 74 million cats, and pet ownership is waning. Or no, wait. It’s 83 million dogs and 96 million cats, and pet ownership is…
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