User:Csn816/sandbox/Priceless Pets

Organization Overview

Priceless Pets is a nonprofit 501C 3 established in 2007 with locations in Chino Hills and Claremont, California. They are a no-kill animal shelter that specializes in the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of unwanted and abandoned dogs and cats. They also provide low cost spaying and neutering.

No-Kill Philosophy

A "no-kill" shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals even when the shelter is full, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals or those considered dangerous to public safety. A shelter can generally euthanize up to 10% of the animals they care for and still be considered a no-kill shelter.

Controversy

Groups such as PETA often criticize these types of organizations because when they are filled to capacity, which is almost always, they are left with two options: turn away more animals than they take in or warehouse animals, often in substandard, filthy, and severely crowded conditions, for weeks, months, or even years on end. Most, if not all, of the animals who are turned away from such facilities still face untimely deaths—just not at these facilities.