Stayin' Alive Long Beach is an initiative to make No Kill a reality
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75%
Percentage of cats killed in the Long Beach Animal Shelter in 2012*
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53%
Percentage of dogs and cats killed in the Long Beach Animal Shelter in 2012*
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Using the No-Kill Equation, this can be changed.
*Source: Long Beach Animal Care Services (Public Records Request)
Let Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) know you support Just One Day 2013. Sign the petition asking Acting Director Ted Stevens to sign the Just One Day pledge to stop euthanizing all animals at Long Beach Animal Care Services on June 11, 2013. You can find the petition HERE.
Want to learn more about Just One Day? Find out more at their website. Just One Day 2012 was a success, but Long Beach Animal Care Services declined to participate. Help us make 2013 the year that LBACS decides to make Long Beach a safer place for animals for Just One Day.
Want to learn more about Just One Day? Find out more at their website. Just One Day 2012 was a success, but Long Beach Animal Care Services declined to participate. Help us make 2013 the year that LBACS decides to make Long Beach a safer place for animals for Just One Day.
Making No Kill a Reality in Long Beach
Help us make No Kill a reality in Long Beach. Animal shelters need to stop doing Business as Usual and take an energetic, proactive approach that saves animals. We are asking Long Beach Animal Care Services to improve their service to the public by implementing:
Ways You Can Help
- Off-site adoption events to make it easier for the public to adopt
- High-volume, low-cost spay/neuter
- Newborn kitten (neonatal) fostering programs / Comprehensive fostering programs
- Greater outreach to rescues and volunteers
- Trap-neuter-release (TNR) programs
- Proactive redemptions
- Socialization and medical rehabilitation programs
- Pet-retention programs to help the public keep their pets in a bad economy
- Creative marketing - special events and publications to draw the public into the shelter
- Public-friendly websites that separate law enforcement and adoptions
- Transparency with numbers of adoptions/euthanasias to establish accountability
- A compassionate director who works proactively to put the No Kill Equation to work
Ways You Can Help
- Contact Long Beach City Mayor Bob Foster, your Long Beach City Councilperson and/or Long Beach Animal Care Services to voice your support for No Kill in Long Beach.
- Write a letter to your local newspaper supporting No Kill in Long Beach
- Join and share Stayin' Alive Long Beach's Facebook page
- Join Stayin' Alive Long Beach and help to make No Kill a reality in Southern California.
- Learn more about the No Kill Equation and let others know that No Kill is achievable.
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No Kill Success Stories
Austin, TX official "no-kill" city for 2011
No Kill Austin
Out The Front Door - site documenting shelters that have achieved a 90% save rate.
No Kill Austin
Out The Front Door - site documenting shelters that have achieved a 90% save rate.
