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Petiton to MAYOR FORD and City Councillors
to pass a motion directing Toronto Animal Services to achieve a minimum 90% save rate.
A no kill community is one that doesn’t kill healthy or treatable pets. Most no-kill shelters save 90% or more of the pets that enter their facilities. Toronto Animal Services (TAS) kills more animals each year than it adopts out. The pets most often culled are cats.
TAS Management say that they cannot run an open admission shelter without regularly killing the "less adoptable" cats. Yet, many shelters are able to deal with their homeless cat issue without killing healthy or treatable animals. Calgary Animal Control is no-kill. The Nova Scotia SPCA is no-kill. Many shelters throughout the Unites States are no kill: San Francisco CA, Austen TX, Reno NV, Tompkins County NY, etc. These cities achieved no-kill status following Nathan Winograd's No Kill Equation (see www.NoKillAdvocacyCenter.org). Even New York City is on it's 10th year of a 15 year plan to become no-kill. (See Mayor's Alliance on NYC's Animals).
TAS management will tell you that no-kill is expensive. But the Nevada Humane Society was 90 days away from bankruptcy when they decided to follow the No Kill Equation, and had a surplus of $11 million after the first year! They simply decided to do the right thing, stopping the killing, they told people about it, and they trusted that people will do the right thing. Animals were adopted, volunteers responded to the need for help, and the community donated what was needed to make the situation right.
There are no excuses!
Let's demand that TAS become no-kill. In November 2009, Austin City Council passed a resolution directing city staff to develop an implementation plan by March 2010 to achieve a 90% save rate. It's that easy. We simply need to ask Toronto's City Council to do likewise.
Become a member of the TASK-Force: Toronto Animal Service Killfree Force! It's FREE! We just need you to add your voice to the effort.
Sign this petition.
Call Mayor Ford's office at 416 397-FORD.
Tell him you are a member of the TASK Force. Tell him you want Toronto Animal Services to become NO KILL, just like our friends in Calgary, Nova Scotia, San Francisco, Austin TX, Ithaca NY, Reno NV, and many more.
Tell him we expect a 90% or better save rate.
Call your City Councillor and demand no-kill.
Our pets deserve to live and be loved!
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Updates
June 10, 2012
Reaching this point has been a long road and the weight of it is starting to show. Seeing how many people refuse to accept the current reality keeps me moving forward even when the silence from the city feels deafening.
8 Comments
This is completely heartbreaking. Stop the killing already. So many other cities are doing it right why cant we?? Do better Toronto.
Why are we still doing this in 2014?? Time to modernize animal control and save these dogs and cats.
Enough is enough. My heart hurts for these poor cats every single day. Please change the rules.
Fix this now. We need a no kill city for our pets.
90% is a totally realistic goal. Look at Calgary. We have no excuse to keep acting like this is the only way.
It's possible to achieve if that is a goal. Start now to achieve NO Kill.
Cats are life
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Petiton to MAYOR FORD and City Councillors
to pass a motion directing Toronto Animal Services to achieve a minimum 90% save rate.
A no kill community is one that doesn’t kill healthy or treatable pets. Most no-kill shelters save 90% or more of the pets that enter their facilities. Toronto Animal Services (TAS) kills more animals each year than it adopts out. The pets most often culled are cats.
TAS Management say that they cannot run an open admission shelter without regularly killing the "less adoptable" cats. Yet, many shelters are able to deal with their homeless cat issue without killing healthy or treatable animals. Calgary Animal Control is no-kill. The Nova Scotia SPCA is no-kill. Many shelters throughout the Unites States are no kill: San Francisco CA, Austen TX, Reno NV, Tompkins County NY, etc. These cities achieved no-kill status following Nathan Winograd's No Kill Equation (see www.NoKillAdvocacyCenter.org). Even New York City is on it's 10th year of a 15 year plan to become no-kill. (See Mayor's Alliance on NYC's Animals).
TAS management will tell you that no-kill is expensive. But the Nevada Humane Society was 90 days away from bankruptcy when they decided to follow the No Kill Equation, and had a surplus of $11 million after the first year! They simply decided to do the right thing, stopping the killing, they told people about it, and they trusted that people will do the right thing. Animals were adopted, volunteers responded to the need for help, and the community donated what was needed to make the situation right.
There are no excuses!
Let's demand that TAS become no-kill. In November 2009, Austin City Council passed a resolution directing city staff to develop an implementation plan by March 2010 to achieve a 90% save rate. It's that easy. We simply need to ask Toronto's City Council to do likewise.
Become a member of the TASK-Force: Toronto Animal Service Killfree Force! It's FREE! We just need you to add your voice to the effort.
Sign this petition.
Call Mayor Ford's office at 416 397-FORD.
Tell him you are a member of the TASK Force. Tell him you want Toronto Animal Services to become NO KILL, just like our friends in Calgary, Nova Scotia, San Francisco, Austin TX, Ithaca NY, Reno NV, and many more.
Tell him we expect a 90% or better save rate.
Call your City Councillor and demand no-kill.
Our pets deserve to live and be loved!
Updates
June 10, 2012
Reaching this point has been a long road and the weight of it is starting to show. Seeing how many people refuse to accept the current reality keeps me moving forward even when the silence from the city feels deafening.
8 Comments
we can do this. Lets speak up for those who can't. It is time to put an end to kill shelters. There is a better way!! THEY CAN STAY ALIVE IF WE FIGHT FOR THEM
This is completely heartbreaking. Stop the killing already. So many other cities are doing it right why cant we?? Do better Toronto.
Why are we still doing this in 2014?? Time to modernize animal control and save these dogs and cats.
Enough is enough. My heart hurts for these poor cats every single day. Please change the rules.
Fix this now. We need a no kill city for our pets.
90% is a totally realistic goal. Look at Calgary. We have no excuse to keep acting like this is the only way.
It's possible to achieve if that is a goal. Start now to achieve NO Kill.
Cats are life
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we can do this. Lets speak up for those who can't. It is time to put an end to kill shelters. There is a better way!! THEY CAN STAY ALIVE IF WE FIGHT FOR THEM