NO KILL LEHIGH VALLEY

No animal should die just because it's homeless.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

Contact us at nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com

Home Page              
For local news and information go to www.webspawner.com/users/nklv.
To donate :  No Kill Lehigh Valley PO Box 4272 Bethlehem, Pa. 18018
We are a 501c3 non profit.  All donations are completely tax deductible.
All funds stay here in our community helping our companion animals and the people who love them.  We provide funding for low cost spay/neuter and for veterinary care.
There is only one killing shelter left in the Lehigh Valley.    
It is the Lehigh County Humane Society on Dixon St. in Allentown.  The Humane Society regularly kills healthy and adoptable animals.  They feel that it is the only way.  We know that it is not.  There is a better way.  Implementation of the policies of the No Kill Equation would enable the Humane Society to stop killing healthy adoptable and treatable animals.  Please see our Programs & Policies page for a full description of the No Kill Equation. 

There is a great new blog dedicated to telling the truth about the Lehigh County Humane Society.  Here is the link: www.stopthekillinglehighcountyshelter.blogspot.com.
Please give it a read!

Our Operation Catsnips have engaged local veterinary hospitals in the effort to provide low cost spay/neuter services.  This event is held in the fall and in the spring.  We have spayed and neutered over 500 cats in one day at very low cost thanks to the generosity of our veterinarians and volunteers.

We especially want to thank the doctors of Lehigh Valley Animal Hospital on Tilghman St. in Allentown;  Dr. Karen Hess; Dr. Michael Fanelli of Walbert Ave. Animal Hospital in Allentown; Dr. Rachel Parks; Dr. Lori Milot ; the Veterinarians and staff of Easton Animal Hospital..

  If you would like to be kept informed about this event and other plans to make our community safe for companion animals, send us an e mail at nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com and asked to be put on our e mail list.

For low cost spay/neuter service for cats and dogs year round contact: 
No Nonsense Neutering 484-224-2213 or Peaceable Kingdom 610-360-7709 both located at 1049 Mac Arthur Rd. Whitehall, Pa.  In the Poconos, contact the Eastern Pa. Animal Alliance 570-994-5846.

If you need help paying for veterinary care contact us at nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com

If you need help providing food for your animals, contact the Animal Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley by e mail at margiesegaline@yahoo.com or by phone at 484-851-8000.

We are so close to becoming a No Kill Community - a place where companion animals are safe.  Please help us to get there.      Join us by sending your contact information to nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com so that we can add you to our group e mail.  And, contact the Humane Society at 610-797-1205.  Let them know that you expect them to do more to save animals' lives.  They have just celebrated their 100th anniversary.  Tell them that the best way to celebrate would be to stop the killing!   

To learn more about the No Kill Movement, read "Redemption" by Nathan Winograd.  It is available through Amazon.com.
     

            
                                                                                                           

                                                                         It can be done!
                                                                       It has been done!

         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)

           The cities of New York and Philadelphia have both launched no kill initiatives and are already
                                                                 saving countless lives.

                                                                   
                                                                        What Does No Kill Mean?

No Kill means that animals in shelters are given every opportunity to find good permanent homes.

No Kill means that no animal is ever killed just to "make room."

No Kill means that no animal is killed because it is "difficult to adopt."

No Kill is more than just a phrase.  It is a call to action through the implementation of  life saving programs.

No Kill does not mean that  animals are never killed.  Euthanasia (in the true sense of the word) is practiced when it is the only humane alternative.  This occurs only when an animal is too sick or injured to be helped by reasonable medical care.  Or, when an animal is a bona fide danger to people or other animals.


No Kill has been a reality in England and many parts of Europe for over 30 years.  This movement has finally taken hold in America.  Communities are questioning the ethical and moral dilemma of killing healthy or treatable animals in order to make room for more who will then be killed to make room for more, and, sadly, so on.  People of conscience are recognizing that this practice has done nothing to solve the problem of homeless companion animals.  In fact, it has done the opposite by perpetuating the belief that animals are disposable.  It really is time for a change.  Those who oppose this change, and there are many, are unable to accept the terrible reality that they have been getting it wrong all this time.  They try to hide the  blood of the innocents on their hands by insisting that there is no other way.  They call those who are leading the movement in a new direction "idealists", as if that were a bad thing to be.  The fact is, all movements which have changed the world have been led by idealists.  That said, the No Kill movement is based on an understanding of reality which translates into practices that must be implemented before lives can be saved. These are described on our page, Programs and Policies.  

The Lehigh Valley has almost reached no kill status.  The last killing shelter in our community is the Lehigh County Humane Society.  Unfortunately, they are also the largest volume shelter and the most intransigent. 
 There must be a way to stop the killing of thousands of innocent helpless animals each year.  Please help us to find it.  Contact us by email at nokill.lehighvalley@yahoo.com if you would like to help.  And please take a few minutes to go through our website which contains a great deal of important information.

             

The animals pictures on this website are or were clients of local shelters