kill shelter
Terminal animal facility
A kill shelter is an animal shelter that euthanizes animals it cannot place in homes, typically after a holding period.
The term is used by animal welfare advocates to distinguish these facilities from no-kill shelters, which refuse to euthanize healthy, adoptable animals regardless of space constraints: We adopted her from a kill shelter the day before she was scheduled to be put down.
- euthanasiaDeliberate death for relief
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- cageBarred confinement structure
- animal controlService managing stray creatures
- rescue groupOrganized emergency extraction unit
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- animal shelteranimal control, humane society, dog pound, pound, rescue