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Orange County Animal Services Shelter Practices and Philosophies Maddie's Fund -Various statements from one of the leading proponents of no- kill practices and approaches,. No-Kill Advocacy Center - A philosophy of mission statement from the website of a center committed to the no-kill approach to pets and animal sheltering.. II. Select Fact Sheets • No Kill Public Shelters in North Carolina and Elsewhere - A brief overview of our findings on such sheltering practices in municipal and County shelters in our own and other states based upon Internet research and discussions with sheltering experts from various animal welfare organizations. • Forsyth County - An overview of the programs in place within Forsyth County, North Carolina, which include a new public, animal shelter, a private humane society and a high volume/low cost spay and neuter clinic. • Animal Protection Society of Orange County - Felicite Latane Animal Sanctuary - An overview of the present philosophy and practice of the other animal shelter currently located in Qrange County. • The Humane Alliance - A fact sheet on their model Spay/Neuter program, which was developed in Western North Carolina and which is now being replicated in Forsyth County, Wake County, and elsewhere.. • Tompkins County SPCA - A fact sheet on what may be the only so-called no kill public shelter operating in the United States (or at least that we have been able to identify in our research about such sheltering throughout the country). This shelter and organization is located in the Ithaca area of upstate New York. • San Francisco SPCA - A fact sheet on the highest profile so-called no kill shelter in the United States, a pioneer of this approach which has sought to build positive and productive relations with the San Francisco Animal Care and Control Program and its shelter. This shelter and organization operates within San Francisco County. III. Background Articles and References Asilomar Accords -Reproduced in their entirety with a statistical template are these historic guidelines for defining adoptable animals, calculating the "live release rate" of shelters and communities, and creating community coalitions among animal welfare organizations intent on reducing and ultimately ending euthanasia as a means of population control. We're All in This Together (Part 1 of "What Would it Take?) - An article from Animal Sheltering regarding recent developments in the field of animal sheltering aimed at controlling the use of euthanasia as a means of population control for adoptable animals.