This No Kill Equation is well and good, but who pays for all this?

Making a community into a No Kill community is no more costly than a killing community. Impounding, housing, killing and disposing of the bodies of animals isn't inexpensive. By IACC's own estimates, it costs $88 to impound, house and either place for adoption of kill a stray animal (no estimate is available for owner surrendered animals). Nationally, the average cost for the housing and killing is about $100 per animal.

Animal welfare in a large city like Indianapolis is composed of many facets. Because people have been desiring solutions for decades that allow animals to live, literally dozens of private animal welfare organizations have been created. Most people recognize the name of the Humane Society of Indianapolis, but don't realize there are many others who have been working very effectively to fill-in some very large gaps in the current animal welfare world. We maintain a list of organizations that play a role in the Indianapolis animal welfare world. These organizations already provide some essential pieces of the No Kill Equation. Our list is a partial list, as there are dozens of other organizations that fill very specialized niches too. An exhaustive list of Indiana animal welfare organizations can be found at the impressive Indiana-PAW Super Database.

Consider that the taxpayers of Indianapolis are already funding a very large system that handles and kills tens of thousands of animals per year. Why is it hard to imagine that the same effort and tax money could not simply fund a system that saves tens of thousands of animals per year?