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Orange County Animal Services Sheltering Practices and Philosophies 22 <br />II. Select Fact Sheets <br />No-Kill Public Shelters in North Carolina and Elsewhere <br />1. North Carolina <br />We were unable to locate an,y public or municipal shelters within North Carolina <br />that operated apublicly-funded, Limited-Admission or "No-Kill" facility, <br />Our sources include Jae Blomquist with North Carolina Department of <br />Agriculture, whose duties include shelter inspection for the state; Carl Williams, <br />DVM, State Public Health Veterinarian with the North Carolina Department of <br />Health, and responsible for the Spay/Neuter Program of the state; Bob Reder, <br />North Carolina State Manager with the Humane Society of the United States; <br />Sherry Silk, Southern Regional Manager with the American Society for the <br />Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and numerous web resources, <br />2. National <br />Expanding this further, we began to seek out shelters from across the country, in <br />order to review successful programs outside of North Catalina. The top two, in <br />countless references to the subject, are the San Francisco Society for the <br />Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in San Francisco, California; and <br />Tompkins County SPCA, in Ithaca, New York, <br />Of those two, only Tompkins County is operating a public, no-kill animal shelter <br />as sole provider of sheltering services for the county, and does not operate under <br />a limited-admission practice -they are an open-door facility and handle all <br />animals within Tompkins County, though they reserve the right to delay <br />admission, They are an independent humane society contracted with Tompkins <br />County to provide both animal sheltering and animal control services. <br />Further information regarding these two organizations may be found within the <br />fact sheets at the end of this section, <br />Our sources for this search included Julie Morris, Senior Vice-President of <br />National Shelter Outreach for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty <br />to Animals (RSPCA); Kim Intino, Senior Vice-President of National Outreach for <br />the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS); and numerous web resources, <br />