Shelter reform advocates need to take a lesson from one of the most successful protest movements in the last two decades, and occupy animal control.
All over the country, bad shelters and animal control facilities are killing most or nearly all homeless pets that come in their doors. A shocking number are failing to provide even basic health care or, in many cases, food and water, to those pets.
What if those of us in those communities — Detroit, New York, Fresno, Memphis, and all the rest — stopped arguing on blogs and holding poster board picket signs and forming Facebook groups and writing ten-page impassioned pleas to reporters, and instead started occupying and mic-checking animal control board meetings, press conferences, and government agency offices, and performing civil disobedience at animal control facilities and high-kill “shelters”?
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