Compassionate Humans

Corona Pets

How a determined community came together and overwhelmingly proved the power of No-Kill

Ingela Canis
3 min readApr 1, 2020

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An unprecedented campaign by one of Colorado’s regressive shelters during the pandemic proved how community engagement saves lives.

When the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region in Colorado reached out and asked the general public for help with fostering and adopting from the pool of abandoned pets due to the COVID-19 panic, the response surprised them, though not No Kill Advocates.

They emptied the shelter.

The compassionate community of Colorado Springs wanted to help all the healthy and treatable pets in their shelter system. Citizens opened up their homes and helped save a huge number of animals from an uncertain fate through both adoptions, and more importantly, fostering.

This is what happens when the community is engaged — kind and compassionate people step up in droves. Communities want to help. We’re all in this unusual emergency together, and our animals should never be left out.

For over a decade now, No Kill Colorado has advocated for saving every healthy and treatable pet — while the opposition says it is unreasonable, there are too many, and the public has to step up.

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