What’s better… Increasing your monthly adoption and rescue rate by 20, 25, 35, even 50% and then being honest about it and celebrating that achievement? Or dishonestly implying that you killed no “adoptable” or “treatable” animals for an entire month, when proof shows that that absolutely didn’t happen? I don’t know about y’all, but I prefer the transparency in tandem with the striving to be better each month, even if it falls short of an ultimate goal. There’s always next time. There’s always trying again. That’s far better than celebrating a fake achievement that never happened, being advertised now on the backs of the animals that you killed and called “unadoptable” in order to pretend that they never existed. It’s an appeasement to a public that mostly doesn’t know any better, and a false representation of what you could actually be doing. It is possible, but not by shunning the proven route in order to actually do it. Embrace what you are then. Try to get there another way, if you must, but do it honestly. Is that too much to ask? The fact that they apparently can’t feel good about the first option, when that’s the true reality, shows a disturbing need to create a fantasy world instead. That shouldn’t make anyone feel too cozy about an intended outcome and the work that is or isn’t being put in to actually get there. Yes, this post is about NKLA.

And just for the record: I love Best Friends. I respect and appreciate many people that work for them. To those that will undoubtedly view this as me “bashing” them, you need to grow up. Don’t attempt to divide and conquer me here. This isn’t about me being an enemy to them, even if they (Best Friends) want to convince themselves that it’s true in order to not have an open and transparent go at things. It’s usually easier to just discard a dissenting opinion than to ponder on it and potentially change for the better. But it’s not wrong to question what’s going on, ever. I love Best Friends, but I love these scared and abandoned Pit Bulls far more. Don’t kill a number of them and then tell people that you didn’t. And if you keep doing it, people like myself will keep telling other people that you did.