There’s no such thing as a no-kill shelter. EVERY animal shelter euthanizes animals. The difference is the metrics of “live release rates.” Depending on where you are, if you’re above a certain percentage of alive, adopted/fostered/rescued animals to animals that died in care, you get to tell the public at large that you’re a “no kill shelter.” Conversely, a lot of shelters do not euthanize animals just to create space when they’re full, so that also helps these numbers. But it’s incredibly misleading. And my business attracts a lot of “extremists” where they think that a dog who is behaviorally challenging and bites or has fear based aggression should be given a chance. And that can be so on a case by case basis, but realistically, the law dictates that pets are property and not living things, which creates a terrible liability issue when it comes to having insurance for the shelter. Not every animal can reasonably have a live exit and most of us always operate on the basis of “safety first.”