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Orange County Animal Services Shelter Practices and Philosophies ~;,. Orange County Animal Services 501 W, Franklin St, Suite 106, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-2287 Animal Sheltering- Operating Practices and Philosophies Accompanying Materials fora Special Presentation, Board of County Commissioners Meeting, September 19~h, 2006 This is an outline of select materials on the philosophy, practice and operations of animal sheltering today. Materials have been selected to address the issue of limiting the euthanasia of adoptable animals as a general concern as well as in regard to shelter programs and operations, Selected materials are organized to provide convenient access to important considerations and a roadmap of the materials that are currently available about sheltering philosophies and practices. The first section includes a number of statements from different recognized national animal welfare organizations on the philosophy and practice of sheltering. These include statements of different kinds on the notion of "no-kill" sheltering, and a description of the "Asilomar Accords," an important development in the field of animal sheltering and welfare. As will be apparent from all of these statements, there is a specific vocabulary of sheltering-one involving terms like limited-admission and open- admission as well as no-kill-that underpins and informs all current discussions, The second section includes a ntamber of fact sheets we have prepared to address specific questions that have been posed or to share information that is pertinent to a discussion of sheltering and shelter design, Same of these fact sheets address the extent to which so-called "no-kill" sheltering is practiced in municipal or county shelters in North Carolina and elsewhere in the United States, Others provide information on the present practice of sheltering at the Animal Protection Society in Orange County and in public and private shelters in Forsyth County. Also, another fact sheet provides information on a community spay/neuter program developed in Western North Carolina under the name of Humane Alliance that is presently being replicated elsewhere in North Carolina and in other states. The last section includes some very select articles discussing recent trends and developments in the field of animal welfare and sheltering. One of these is the historic Asilomar Accords, an important development in the direction of creating community coalitions with the shared objective of reducing the use of euthanasia as a means of population control far adoptable animals.