Nathan Winograd
On Achieving No-Kill
Building a No-Kill Community
Going No-Kill
Converting to No-Kill
It Takes a Community
Stop the Killing
Saving Dogs in Shelters
Temperament
Testing
Starting a Fostercare Program
Feral Everywhere
Release cats
FIVpositive?
Feral Cats Deserve
Attention
Adopt
Hard-to-Place Animals
Older Pets Need Proper Care
Diary of a No-Kill Director
Perspective: Asilomar Accords
Newspaper Articles
PACCA Blistered by
Expert
Expert Envisions No-Kill Phillie
Press Releases
No-Kill Animal Control
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No Kill Info
Shelter Achieves
No-Kill!
No-Kill: An Act of Will
When
the Cages Are Full
Impossible You
Say?
No Kill References
Defining No-Kill
Shelter Law
No-Kill Resources
Our Rancho Shelter
County is History!
RC to Go No-Kill!
No-Kill Eval OK'd
Articles were reprinted from other sources on the internet including
NoKillSolutions.com
BestFriends.org
MaddiesFund.org
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Local News for Rancho Cucamonga, CA
March, 2005
Nathan
J. Winograd, founder of No Kill Solutions, a
for-profit consultation firm, will
be giving a presentation to the full City Council on Monday, March 14, 2005
at 6:00 p.m. at:
Lions Center West
9161 Baseline Road
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Nathan Winograd is a former
director of Tompkins
County SPCA in New York, which claims to be the first open-door municipal pound
to become a no-kill shelter*.
It appears that our
showing of considerable public support through our petition drive, letters to
the council and appearances at meetings have all made a difference.
Our city council has finally agreed to hear out Winograd. But it is JUST
a presentation.
Let's reserve our
excitement until the FINAL decision has been made.
Remember, the council has already made a $12,000 evaluation
commitment to the adversary of our cause, the Humane Society of the
United States. That process, will take several months. In the
meantime, the County will remain the administrator and it will be
business as usual. Hundreds of animals could die needlessly during
these delays.
Nathan's presentation is free, so it's a small concession on the part
of the council. It gives them an opportunity to look reasonable by
showing they are considering both sides. But it's hardly a fair
comparison: a six-month evaluation by HSUS versus a 30-minute demo by
Winograd.
And how can we ever forget that the HSUS contract was signed secretly
while we were in sub-committee meetings being told the decision hadn't
been made.
The only credible thing the council can do is to hire Winograd if they
want to show that the public's opinion counts. But even if they do, the
council can still decide to retain the County contract and make only
minor reforms.
A show of public
support for a no-kill shelter is more crucial than ever, so getting
petitions signed must be our top priority. If you are interested in
passing them out, if you need more petitions or you know of anyone who
might, please let me know.
*
In two years, the Tompkins County SPCA went from a shelter:
a.. that was killing 100% of feral cats to killing none
b.. that was killing healthy dogs and cats to killing none
c.. that was killing treatable sick/injured dogs and cats to killing
none
d.. that reduced the death rate by 75%
In those same two
years, the TC SPCA increased:
a.. the animals spayed/neutered before adoption from 10% to 100%
b.. the number of volunteers from a dozen to 181
c.. the number of animals fostered from a handful to close to 800 per
year
During the same period, the SPCA:
a.. reduced its expenses by approximately $150,000 per year
b.. reduced the number of employees from 16 to 12
c.. went from a $250,000 a year annual budget deficit to a $23,000
surplus
d.. and has so far raised $2.8 million dollars to build a new shelter
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