For Legislators
The Companion Animal Protection Act saves lives, saves taxpayer money, improves public health and safety, and is popular with voters. Lawyers for the No Kill Advocacy Center and No Kill Nation are available to answer any questions and provide support.

For a copy of our CAPA brochure, click here.

To contact us, please click here.

Additional Resources:

In 1998, California passed a rescue access law making it illegal for shelters to kill animals if rescue groups were willing to save them. The law has been an unqualified success. For an analysis of the law, click here. That law has also resulted in significant taxpayer savings for municipalities. For an analysis, click here.

A NYS survey showed that 71% of rescue groups have been turned away by a NYS shelter and killed the very animals they offer to save. The survey also showed that half have been the subject of retaliation for exposing neglect and abuse in shelters. For an analysis, click here.

Communities that embrace No Kill not only save on the cost of killing and bring in additional adoption revenue and other user fees, but also provide an economic boon to local business. To read "Dollars & Sense: The Economic Benefit of No Kill Animal Control," click here.

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