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Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?
Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Therefore, they would prefer that people try hard to find a solution before resorting to surrendering their pet to a shelter. If you must find a new home for a pet, please try posting to our adoption portal before placing the burden on the shelter. Direct adoptions work well and allow everyone to share in the accountability of their community!
Quad City Animal Welfare Center
Milan, IL
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724 West Second Avenue
Milan, Illinois 61264
We operate the Quad City Animal Welfare Center as a No-Kill shelter. There are many different understandings and definitions surrounding the term "No-Kill". Our center operates under the philosophy that we serve our community as a supplement to our local animal controls. While animal control shelters are funded with tax dollars, they are required to control the pet population, and unfortunately that often involves euthanasia. By accepting approximately 50 percent of our animals from local animal control shelters, they do not have to euthanize the animal because there is no room. Our community is benefited by our willingness to accept, alter, vaccinate, and care for each animal until it can be adopted. Without our shelter, these animals would be otherwise be euthanized.
As the no-kill movement continues to grow, there are many debates regarding the terminology of "No-Kill". There are animal control shelters that state "no-kill" shelters are really not no-kill because they cannot accept every animal that comes into their facility. This belief is shared by a national humane organization which actively speaks out against no-kill shelters and condemns the words "no-kill". They believe that no-kill shelters should be referred to as "limited admission shelters". Unfortunately, when shelters spend time condemning other shelters, it is the animals for which they were created to care for who ultimately suffer.
It is our position that we will not pass judgment on any shelter who works towards the improvement of animal welfare. Each shelter in a community has a role and responsibility to fulfill, while they may have different philosophies and missions, in the end, we share a common goal, to help the animals of our community.
If we as a no-kill shelter did not exist, the animals that we accept and care for would be relinquished to the animal control, thus increasing the burden on them and the tax payers as well as increasing their euthansia rates.
We will help and work with any shelter who is committed to improving animal welfare. We have actively provided assistance, shared information and experiences with both no-kill shelters as well as animal control shelters across the country. Only together will we move closer to ending the suffering for all animals and thus eliminate the need for euthanasia.
Milan, Illinois 61264
We operate the Quad City Animal Welfare Center as a No-Kill shelter. There are many different understandings and definitions surrounding the term "No-Kill". Our center operates under the philosophy that we serve our community as a supplement to our local animal controls. While animal control shelters are funded with tax dollars, they are required to control the pet population, and unfortunately that often involves euthanasia. By accepting approximately 50 percent of our animals from local animal control shelters, they do not have to euthanize the animal because there is no room. Our community is benefited by our willingness to accept, alter, vaccinate, and care for each animal until it can be adopted. Without our shelter, these animals would be otherwise be euthanized.
As the no-kill movement continues to grow, there are many debates regarding the terminology of "No-Kill". There are animal control shelters that state "no-kill" shelters are really not no-kill because they cannot accept every animal that comes into their facility. This belief is shared by a national humane organization which actively speaks out against no-kill shelters and condemns the words "no-kill". They believe that no-kill shelters should be referred to as "limited admission shelters". Unfortunately, when shelters spend time condemning other shelters, it is the animals for which they were created to care for who ultimately suffer.
It is our position that we will not pass judgment on any shelter who works towards the improvement of animal welfare. Each shelter in a community has a role and responsibility to fulfill, while they may have different philosophies and missions, in the end, we share a common goal, to help the animals of our community.
If we as a no-kill shelter did not exist, the animals that we accept and care for would be relinquished to the animal control, thus increasing the burden on them and the tax payers as well as increasing their euthansia rates.
We will help and work with any shelter who is committed to improving animal welfare. We have actively provided assistance, shared information and experiences with both no-kill shelters as well as animal control shelters across the country. Only together will we move closer to ending the suffering for all animals and thus eliminate the need for euthanasia.
Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?
No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.
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