Welcome to No Kill Monroe County PA

Welcome to NO KILL Monroe County PA. We are citizens who believe that when the community works together to save animals, that we are capable of miraculous things!

No Kill means that homeless animals are given every opportunity to find good permanent homes. We will not kill an animal just to make room for more animals or because it is difficult to find a home for.

The city of San Francisco became the first no kill community in the nation in the 1990s by saving all healthy dogs and cats city and county-wide.

The Tompkins Co. SPCA in rural upstate New York, an open door animal shelter with the animal control contract for the area, now has a 93% save rate.

The animal control shelter in Charlottesville, Va., a southern, rural open door shelter, has a 92% save rate.

The Humane Society in Reno, Nevada has hired a new director committed to no kill. Between January 1, 2006 and January 1, 2007, the kill rate for dogs decreased by 57%while the adoption rate increased by 91%. During this same period, the kill rate for cats decreased by 45% while the adoption rate increased by 105%.

The state of New Hampshire became a no kill state when state funded low cost spay/neuter became available. The save rate throughout the state is 93%.
(www.saveourstrays.com)

The state of Utah is near no kill status. (www.bestfriends.org)

Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance are working hard to reduce euthenasia in Central PA.

Our neighbors in the Lehigh Valley are all, with the exception of one killing place, working hard on No Kill.

Here in the Poconos, Camp Papillon, Animals Can't Talk, For the Love of the Underdog, Friends of Monroe County Homeless Animals, Dogs Deserve Better, Save a Dog, and a SLEW of hardworking volunteers are doing their best to save animal lives and things just keep on looking better for homeless animals here in Monroe County!

I have this dream that all these little no kill groups Nationwide, are growing, moving, stretching and spreading. One day, maybe in my lifetime, the killing will be a thing of the past!

I know that my own children are apalled that there are "shelters" that make money taking in animals and killing them to make room for more animals. I think that if we educate the youth and teach them loving and compassionate no kill strategies, we will change the way homeless animals are treated especially in our grandchildren's generation. But we have to hurry up! I am already a grandmother!

Let's do this!