The infographic from the No Kill Advocacy Center spells out the obligations of California’s municipal shelters when there is a request from an animal adoption or rescue organization to take a dog or dogs. There are only three very specific circumstances under which the municipal shelter can refuse the request.
Nathan Winograd has a Facebook post on the topic:
To stress the point here is the infographic which I understand to be available to publishers to use at their discretion:
I have forgotten the case referred to but this is clearly a means to improve the chances of a rescue dog surviving the municipal shelters of California. It prevents them from euthanising shelter dogs unnecessarily when a partnering rescue group have offered to take the animal and find a home for him/her.
The case referred to must have been an example of an unnecessary killing through poor management. The way rescue dogs are sometimes classified as being unadoptable because of alleged behavioural issues is very susceptible to abuse and misjudgment when the administrators of the municipal shelter have a less then sensitive attitude towards the animals.
