We do qualify as no-kill based on our actions, policies, and save rates. However, we refer to ourselves as an “open door facility” and we do not call ourselves no-kill. The reason is we are the only facility-based animal welfare organization in Benton County, Oregon. As such, we are a private non-profit AND we serve as the municipal shelter on behalf of the city and the county. We never turn an animal away. We receive strays, impounds, surrendered, and seized animals. Some of these animals have significant injuries or behavioral issues. We always evaluate and euthanasia is always a last option. We spent the past several years developing an amazing network of foster volunteers and relationships with rescue groups and other shelters. As such, we are able to save many more lives even though we do not limit our intake. Generally, we have found that the no-kill shelters in our area are only able to call themselves such because they limit their intake to adoptable animals only which results in flooding their municipal shelters with less adoptable candidates or denial of services for the community.

Besides creative adoption programs, fostering, marketing available animals in ads and social media, transfers, and comprehensive evaluations, we now offer to notify people who surrender or find an animal to reclaim the animal if that animal somehow becomes a candidate for euthanasia. We find this cultivates a community that better understands euthanasia decisions and can actively participate in the decision making process. We have also started a TNR program whereby feral cats are altered and someone has agreed to take responsibility for him.


Address:
398 SW Twin Oaks Circle
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-757-9000