Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Winograd

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Nathan Winograd

Nathan J. Winograd is an American attorney, animal advocate, and director of No Kill Advocacy Center in Oakland, California. On pet overpopulation, in a 2007 interview with Center for Consumer Freedom about his book Redemption, Winograd said:

it's "a myth." "Based on the number of existing households with pets who have a pet die or run away, more homes potentially become available each year for cats than the number of cats who enter shelters, while more than twice as many homes potentially become available each year for dogs than the number of dogs who enter shelters. ... As a movement, the humane community has accepted the idea that the best shelters can do for homeless animals is to adopt out some and kill the rest. To try to avoid criticism for this, to justify a paltry number of adoptions, these groups have perpetuated the myth that there are simply more animals than homes, something that is patently false ." ... When San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to save all healthy, homeless dogs and cats, and was effectively talking to the public about pet adoption, there was not a single pet store left in the city selling dogs and cats. It didn’t start out that way, but that was the result. Why? Because they couldn't compete with the SPCA.

While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.
To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success. — © Nathan Winograd
Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.
Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral.
No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them.
In the final analysis, animals in shelters are not being killed because there are too many of them, because there are too few homes, or because the public is irresponsible. Animals in shelters are dying for primarily one reason–because people in shelters are killing them.
A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'
If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.
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