Expanding the No Kill Toolkit

A call for submissions

Our No Kill Toolkit is a collection of 31 free step-by-step guides covering political advocacy, litigation, legislation, media relations, shelter operations, and more. The Toolkit is designed to help animal shelters end killing and, when they refuse to do it willingly, empower reformers to force them to do so.

As The No Kill Advocacy Center adds more guides, we’d like to know what is still needed. As a rescuer, reformer, or shelter manager, what challenges are you facing that you would like a practical, step-by-step guide for? Are there topics, skills, campaigns, shelter practices, legal issues, public records, or other subjects that you need help with? Please be as specific as possible.

Here is a list of the current Guides already available for free download:

Shelter Operations/Protocols:

1. The Science of Humane Sheltering

2. Calculating Placement Rates

3. We Can Do It! Adopting Our Way Out of Killing

4. Contracting for No Kill

5. Animal Evaluation Matrix

Model Legislation:

6. The Animal Rescue Act

7. Pets Have Value Act

8. Stand by Me

9. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act

10. The Companion Animal Protection Act

11. Break the Chains: Model Anti-Tethering Legislation to Protect Dogs

12. Protecting Community Cats

13. Ban the Gas Chamber

14. Preserving Life, Protecting Families: Model Legislation for Smart, Flexible Holding Periods

15. Pets are Family Fair Housing Act

16. The Family Standard of Care & Protection Act

17. The Do No Harm Act

No Kill Advocacy:

18. Defining No Kill

19. No Kill 101

20. Dollars & Sense: The Economic Benefits of No Kill Animal Control

21. The Myth of Pet Overpopulation

22. Give Me Shelter

23. Section 1983 to the Rescue

24. What Shelters Owe Traumatized Animals

25. No Kill in Your Hometown

26. How to be a Superhero for Shelter Animals

27. How Does Your Community’s Shelter Measure Up?

28. No Dog Left Behind

29. There Ought to be a Shelter Reform Law

30. Countering the Opposition

31. What’s in a Name? Why HSUS, the ASPCA, PETA & State “Humane” Organizations Lobby Against Shelter Reform

If you are a supporter, you can leave suggestions in the comments. Otherwise, you are welcome to contact us through our website. Your recommendations will help determine which guides are written next.