Just One Day is a campaign that asks shelters across the county to stop killing on June 11 of every year.

Hey, is this something that Hemet News could share with the local big news channels?

Greg, the EX-COP director of Devore Animal Shelter, REFUSES to participate in this event!! He just moved up the DAILY "KILL-TIME" SCHEDULE TO 12 NOON, "NO HOLDS, NO EXTENSIONS, NO EXCEPTIONS!!"

Rescues must have the cats &/or kittens-(INCLUDING PREGNANT AND MOMS WITH BABIES!!)-physically out of Devore Shelter BEFORE NOON EVERY DAY!! DEVORE SHELTER ALSO AUTOMATICALLY KILLS ANY AND ALL KITTENS THAT ARE LESS THAN 8 WEEKS OLD IF THEY ARE TURNED IN THERE WITHOUT THEIR MOTHER!!!!

Just One Day is a campaign that asks shelters across the county to stop killing on June 11 of every year. Thousands of groups, including some of the largest shelters in the nation, take part. And the results have been dramatic. One shelter with high rates of killing stayed open for 11 hours. Roughly 100 animals found homes, one every seven minutes the shelter was open, its most successful adoption day ever.

Another shelter opened on a day it was normally closed and placed 231 animals as a result. In still another, the director of animal control who once said that he would not hesitate to kill every community cat in the world, reported that, “The parking lot has been full since 10:00 this morning, it continues to be full. I’ve never seen so many people come out here all at one time, in one day.”

In an Arizona animal control shelter, 88 out of 100 dogs and 28 out of 30 cats were adopted by 11 am. In another community, they ran out of animals.

Yet another reported staff crying: they had never seen so many animals going out the front door in the loving arms of families.

For many of these shelters, it was a watershed moment. Not just because animals who would have normally been killed were saved, but because of the valuable lessons hundreds of traditional shelters across the country learned. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the Just One Day campaign is to not only save animals through adoption on June 11, it is to get shelters resistant to the principles of the No Kill philosophy—of marketing animals, of asking the public for help, of being open for adoptions at times that are more convenient for the working public and families, of using the media to save lives and of partnering with rescue groups—to commit to trying these ways of operating.

Learn more and take the pledge: www.justoneday.ws

Photo: Just One Day is a celebration of life for animals like this little dog, adopted on June 11, who danced his way into a loving, new home.

P.S. Although the No Kill Advocacy Center and I helped launch the annual event for its first few years, we are no longer affiliated with it. If you have any questions about signing up your shelter or rescue group, please contact them directly.

URGENT NOW! WILL KILLED BY NOON ON WED
Rescue holds will NOT keep these babies alive past noon. The shelter is no longer granting extensions!

‪#‎A650065‬. MOMMA PHEE

Temperament: FRIENDLY; w/4 kitten (4 wks old) (‪#‎A650066‬, ‪#‎A650067‬,‪#‎A650068‬, ‪#‎A650069‬) - MEDICAL WAIVER female White & Gray DMH 2years old.

Devore Animal Shelter
Voice: (909) 386-9820 - press 0

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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY WE NEED COMPLETE PLANS BEFORE 7:00 AM ON DAY FIVE--KILL DAY. DAY 4 IS THE URGENT DAY.
On 6/6/2016 the shelter notified us that all cats on the kill list MUST EXIT THE SHELTER by noon on kill day. This means we must have funding, foster commitments, and transport plans in place the night before. We need to submit a hold e-mail the night of Day 4 (the fourth day the cats are in the shelter) so the shelter will receive it no later than 7:00 am on Day 5. 

Our networking and planning, if not already done, must be done by the end of the the fourth day. When funds, foster and transport commitments haven't been received until Day 5, it has been difficult to get cats out of the shelter by the end of the day and has caused transporters to drive in the worst traffic and fosters and others to be up late at night, or all night, wrapping up due to the long day. If we do not have plans in place the night before the kill day, we will likely lose lives. DAY FOUR IS THE URGENT DAY.

A few years ago, a local California shelter was killing 80% of cats, explaining "only 20% of the cats taken into [our] shelter are ever released alive. And this is a national average, not just for our facility."

In 2013, more cats were saved than killed. Last year, they saved 64% and killed 37%. While the save rate is still too low, it underscores the dramatic shift occurring in sheltering across the U.S. over the last several years, including in large cities with historically high rates of killing.

More cats are being saved in U.S. shelters than killed for the first time in modern history! The national save rate for cats now stands at 55%. And the dog save rate is also climbing: hitting 78% nationally. At the same time, the numbers of animals dying in American shelters has been and is continuing to decline: dropping to 2.6 million.

Obviously, we still have some way to go. And the numbers killed--in the millions--is still obscene. But we are moving in the right direction and heading toward a certain--and not too distant--victory. If we refuse to let up, insisting that all shelter embrace proven, cost-effective alternatives to killing, this much is certain: we will live in a No Kill nation in our lifetime.