Please sign this petition!

No Kill Paulding has created a petition to ask the Paulding County Commissioners to put in place the 11 steps of No Kill and to stop the killing of healthy and treatable pets!  Please sign it and ask your neighbors to sign it as well.

http://www.change.org/petitions/paulding-county-commissioners-reduce-the-euthansia-rate-of-paulding-...

Currently, the mission statement for Paulding County Animal Control says nothing about saving the lives of the pets that come in.  Thus, the leadership is of the opinion that it is not their job to save lives.  If the pets get adopted or rescued by outside means, great, but if not, they will kill them to make space for the ones who continue to come in.  The kill rate is not evaluated, nor is it a priority.  As it is not a part of their performance review, it is not a part of their job requirement.  The leadership of Animal Control does not consider the kill rate an important factor in whether or not they are successful in their positions. 

The citizens of Paulding County want their tax dollars to be used for something other than warehousing, then killing and disposing of homeless pets.  We want our tax dollars to be invested into the community, by employing an Animal Control Department that cares about saving the lives of these homeless pets, and putting them into homes, where their care will also build the economy in Paulding.   We want life saving to become a high priority at Paulding County Animal Control.  By implementing all 11 steps of The No Kill Equation, Paulding could begin to save 90-95% of the lives of the animals who come through their door.  By refusing to do so, previously, more than half have been killed.  We don’t want to fund the killing anymore.

We are asking that the mission statement and the ordinances of Paulding County Animal Control be changed to support the 11 steps of No Kill, so that life saving is a priority.  The decisions and actions of Paulding County Animal Control Leadership directly affect life saving, by refusing to make changes, pets die. 

It has been also shown that live animals bring revenue into the community, while killing pets cost tax payers money.  Adoption fees bring revenue directly into Animal Control, while killing costs both financially and morally.  We have repeatedly shown that saving the lives of pets is not only the right thing to do, it is also the cost effective thing to do.

The facts have been presented repeatedly.  Now, we need changes.