We saw a posting a couple of weeks ago about a day that a bunch of shelters around the country committed to being no kill shelters for one day. Here is a link to the Facebook page discussing this: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=10319376&l=0a5c8a589f&id=190922761490 and here is the main web page: http://www.justoneday.ws/. The date was June 11th, and we hope there are many more to come.
It goes without saying that this is an amazing idea and a huge step in the right direction to getting rid of kill shelters. A lot of the shelters waived adoption fees andthe Facebook page had almost 9k likes. We read that over 700 shelters signed on for the pledge-that is amazing! As awareness continues to get out there about the no kill movement, events like this will continue to gain steam. Maybe next year it will be a no-kill week and then a month, etc. There were tons of blog posts about the event and a lot of coverage. This is all good.
As more shelters and communities rally around this cause, we will ultimately approach a day when people will look back and not be able to comprehend that we used to euthanize animals. I am going to research who came up with this idea as I think it is so great. It is amazing to sign up 700 shelters, and the event will only get larger every year.