Express Yourself

The no kill movement is about saving the lives of shelter animals. It is, however, as much a social movement about people and their values as it is about animals. History has shown that places which have become no kill communities and have ended the outdated practice of destroying healthy and treatable shelter animals have done so as a result of public pressure and public demand. The vast  majority of Americans consider their companion animals family members and think it should be illegal for shelters to destroy animals which are not suffering and which do not present a genuine public safety risk.

Our local officials, both elected and appointed, are well aware of the position of No Kill Huntsville regarding how our municipal animal shelter operates using our tax dollars. We applaud the progress made to date. Animals now have a better chance of making it out of our shelter alive than at any time in the history of our city. The City of Huntsville has yet to make a public declaration that it will no longer destroy healthy and treatable animals using tax dollars moving forward.

If you support the City of Huntsville publicly stating that ours is a no kill community, those who govern and lead us need to hear from you.

You will find the names and contact information for those officials on the page called Our Local Officials. Your contact need not be complex. You can simply say you want ours to become a no kill community sooner rather than later and you don't want your money used to destroy animals when that same money can be used to save them. You can go into more detail about why this issue is important to you, perhaps explaining how much  you value your pets and how devastating it would be for you if they were destroyed in the shelter. If you have had a negative experience with Huntsville Animal Services, we encourage you to write about that to complain and to ask that action be taken.