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but ultimately ended up leaving when she saw that Best Friends was maybe more about the publicity than taking care of animals.
Also, I should add, many people wrote in saying about the great work that Best Friends does as well.
Jenny said, thanks for your episode on Best Friends.
As a shelter volunteer, we all kind of knew about the culty origins of Best Friends, and we do wrestle every day with their definition of no-kill and how that can harm open intake, sometimes referred to as kill shelters, who have to take in every animal, no matter how traumatized, sick, or dangerous they are, and they have to make very hard decisions about euthanasia.
One thing I wanted to point out with regard to the conversation about supporting animals versus humans through donations is that animal shelters are the most, animal shelters are the unwilling participant in most social problems.
They end up with animals when ICE deports people, when housing is too expensive, when people can't pay their own animals medical bills, after climate disasters, when people suffer mental illness and more.
Some shelters now have social workers who coordinate with human social services to help solve these human issues to reduce strain on animal shelters.
And when that strain gets too heavy, we wind all the way back around to the conversation about euthanizing for time and space.
So when you support animal shelters, you do also support humans in need and vice versa.
And I thought that was a really interesting thing that I hadn't really thought about because animals are connected to people and in helping the animals, you are sometimes and often helping the people attached to them.
Thanks for listening to the feedback as egg continues to drip.
Yeah, I can see it under the rim of your glasses.
Yeah, it's a very interesting invasive texture, I would say.