<html><body><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">We are fortunate in Utah to have not only a first rate basset rescue, but also Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, which has programs for local shelters. My local shelter, Sandy City, has about 90% of the animals rescued or adopted. Some that come in are sick or injured, so it won't be 100% ever. We did, however, just change to a no-kill shelter about 2 years ago. Before that it was very bad and they also killed feral cats. I currently help feed a feral cat colony at a pond along the Jordan River. They are all very healthy and fixed. If a new one shows that isn't, we </div><div aria-label="Compose body">trap and return. Best Friends is a huge influence and appreciated here. The local basset rescue also does a great job and often takes dogs from Idaho as well. </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Making Utah shelters no-kill</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;">Best Friends’ collaboration with the state’s two largest animal shelters has proven invaluable for saving homeless pets in Utah and led to the formation of the <a href="http://nkut.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f58220; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" data-mce-href="http://nkut.org/" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f58220; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">NKUT Coalition</a>. Both Salt Lake County Animal Services and West Valley City Animal Services have been transformed into no-kill shelters, each with a save rate of more than 93 percent in 2016, bringing a no-kill Utah well within reach. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.7125; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #636365; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Marilyn Briggs marbriggs@comcast.net</span></p></div></div></body></html>