Leadership
Today, roughly 3,000 shelter directors are holding back the will of millions of Americans who love their pets and do not want to see harm come to others. We need compassionate shelter directors to take the place of regressive one.

For more information:

On Leadership

Case Study: Standing Tall in Washoe County

Model Executive Director Job Description which does not require prior shelter experience.

What do they have to hide? For a guide on how to force shelters to give you the data you need to expose the truth, click here.

No Kill 101. For our primer on the No Kill philosophy, click here.

For additional resources - including a guide to reform your local shelter, model shelter policies, and much more, click here.

Understanding CAPA
Four million shelter animals want you!
A Three-Part Strategy for Change:
For No Kill success to be widespread and long lasting, we must focus on institutionalizing No Kill by giving shelter animals the rights and protections afforded by law.

Every successful social movement results in legal protections that codify expected conduct and provide protection against future conduct that violates normative values.

We need to regulate shelters in the same way we regulate hospitals and other agencies which hold the power over life and death. The answer lies in passing and enforcing shelter reform legislation which mandates how a shelter must operate.

For our CAPA brochure, click here.

For our Rescue Access brochure, click here.

For our Legislative Guide, click here.

For our Advocacy Guide, click here.

For the full version of CAPA, click here.

For a modified version of CAPA, click here.

For rescue access legislation only, click here.