To donate: https://www.paypal.me/ClevelandNoKill
Donations pay for emergency vet needs, transport, boarding, and our cat quarantine. We are not part of the City of Cleveland, TN, Animal Control Division. The physical address for this shelter is 360 Hill Street, SE, Cleveland, TN 37311. If you need help adopting/rescuing a dog or cat from Cleveland (TN) Animal Control, we --the volunteers-- will d
o our best to assist you in saving a life. Please message us on Facebook or email us at [email protected]. WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
1. Adopt. Learn how at http://clevelandnokill.com/adopt/
2. Hit "Share" on the pictures and posts.
2. Sponsor an animal for $50. This does not save an animal but helps find potential adopters. If you wish to sponsor, message this page.
3. Read the following steps to No-Kill and contact your city council representative and voice your support for a No-Kill Cleveland. Steps for Successfully Going “No Kill”
The following is the “No Kill Equation”, which is described in further detail by Nathan Winograd in his book “Redemption”.
1. Feral Cat TNR Program – TNR most commonly stands for either “Trap, Neuter, Release” or “Trap, Neuter, Return”. This is the only proven method for lowering the numbers of feral/unowned cats in an area. Using TNR effectively sterilizes the cat colony. The current and more widely used way to deal with the feral/unowned cat population is to “catch and kill” them. This means they are not “adoptable” due to their lack of interaction with people, and so, they are killed rather than altered and allowed to live out their lives. We believe that even though these cats are not “adoptable” they should be allowed to live because TNR actually succeeds in lowering the population and these cats can live long, happy and healthy lives if left to do so after being altered. Locally (in Maryland) Community Cats Maryland is one example of an agency using TNR to work toward lowering the population without killing.
2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter – Quality of Life Issue – Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.
3. Rescue Groups – An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community’s rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.
4. Foster Care – Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter’s capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter’s public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.
5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs – Quality of Life Issue – Adoptions are vital to an agency’s lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management’s hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice.
6. Pet Retention –Quality of Life Issue – Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. The more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.
7. Medical and Behavior Programs – Quality of Life Issue – The shelter must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.
8. Public Relations/Community Involvement – Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter’s exposure. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of a shelter’s activities and their success. To go No-Kill, the shelter must be in the public eye.
9. Volunteers – Quality of Life Issue – Volunteers are a dedicated “army of compassion” and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.
10. Proactive Redemptions – Quality of Life Issue - One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so—primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach—has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families as well as garner more public support and backing for the shelter.
11. A Compassionate Director – A hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired clichés or hide behind the myth of “too many animals, not enough homes.”
