Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America Paperback – June 16, 2009
by Nathan J. Winograd (Author)
Editorial Reviews
Review
Don’t miss this book! It’s a must read for anyone who cares about animals
or about creating a more compassionate society. (Bonney Brown, Executive Director, Nevada Humane Society.)
For anyone who has ever loved an animal, this book, like no other non-fiction,
takes you through the full spectrum of emotions: from sadness to anger, from
fear to hope. But redemption? That is ultimately left up to each and every
one of us... This book deserves your immediate attention and our beloved
animals deserve your immediate action. (Lee Rayburn, Editor, Willy Street
Media; Guest Host, Air America Radio)
Powerful and inspirational...[this book will] have a truly transformative
effect. (Taimie Bryant, UCLA Professor of Law and Author of the 1998 California
Animal Shelter Law)
A rational voice in a field where mediocrity and incompetence is the norm.
This is the book that will wake people up much in the way that John Robbins
did with Diet for a New America in the late 1980's. (Susan Cosby,
Chief Operating Officer, Philadelphia Animal Care & Control Association)
Redemption is one of the most important books about animals to appear
in the last decade. (Kenneth Ayers, Esq, of Counsel, San Francisco SPCA,
retired.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of
this title.
From the Publisher
Silver Medal, Best Book (Animals & Pets) by Independent Book Publishers Association
USA Book News Best Book (Animals & Pets)
Certificate of Excellence, Cat Writers Association of America
Best Book Nominee, Dog Writers Association of America --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Nathan is the director of the No Kill Advocacy Center. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, and a former criminal prosecutor as well as corporate attorney. He has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has spoken nationally and internationally on animal issues and has created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities. Under his leade
Judi Singleton's Review
Though things are changing somewhat since Redemption was written, a lot more change hadto be made.
Citing the wonderful changes that have been made by some facilities is not enough. Thoughit was through
education of the public that these changes have taken place. Books like this one have
to be written in my estimation so that people become aware of the dark secrets that
to on behind closed doors and under the legitamacy of sheltering our animals that well as humans
should be responsible for.
In Redemption, the myth of pet over populization Author, Nathan Winograd, makes the
point that the killing of animals which numbers in the millions every year across this
nation, was not necessary as the so called shelters led the public to believe. With the iplications
of shelter programs, in 1990, 27,930 dogs and cats were put to sleep. When these same healthy
animals could have been found homes. It was just a matter of educating the public and
the shelters themselves to change their kill policies to no kill. By using private foster homes until
the animals could find forever homes, by using neuter and release programs for cats. ]By transfering animals
to other shelters where the animal might have a better chance at adoption. Even though
the programs were demonstrated to work, the kill policy went on claiming that it
was the only humane way to handle homeless animals.
My own experience with shelters, is that they pick up the animal from the owner or off the
streets and the animal is stressed beyond belief. They are away from their families, they
find themselves in strange surroundings, they are scared and sometimes sick or become sick
diseases that come from putting all those animals together in cages. When the animal
strikes out against these strangers who would handle them with familarity. they are
labeled as agressive and put down. I took three really healthy strays to the Portland,
Oregon, Humanine Society, I had had them nuetered and spayed. They had all their shots,
and the vet had pronounced them healthy. I just could not keep that many animals. They
found two of them homes and the third was put down. I had asked if I could be notified
if they were not adoptable and I would come and get them. They said that if I paid this
enourmous amount of board, which was about $10. dau per animal they could call me. I did
not have the money but called everyday inquiring about them. They told me on the third day
they had put down the third animal. I had spent around $300. per animal to have them be
healthy, have their shots, and get forever homes. But because one of the animals was
scared and scratched he was deemed unadoptable. The agency could not even call me though I
offered foster care for the animals as long as they needed. They simply put the animal down.
Low cost spay and nueter clinics aimed at poor people being able to spay and nueter their pets
threatened the profits of vets then these programs were discouraged though they would cost
the shelters and tax payers millions of dollars by not having to deal with unwanted pets born
to owners that could not afford to spay and nueter their pets.
False sories of how these animals were threatening the eco-system, these animals damaging
propeties, decline of wildlife. Puppy mills were blamed for increasing numbers of pets
being bred when there was a marked increase in the American Kenn
This is a book everyone should read. How did a pet loving society become the main way to
slaughter animals?
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