Animal shelters and wildlife sanctuaries are often confused. Many sanctuaries have characteristics of animal evacuation centers, but they are not the same. Evacuation centers have more temporary and more intrusive purposes, but evacuation centers are more permanent and less intrusive.
Animal shelters are designed to temporarily accommodate lost, home-free, or abandoned animals. An example of a shelter is "Dog's Cage". Shelters often allow people to collect and remove animals. Some shelters euthanize animals if adoption is not done within a certain period. Other shelters have adopted a strict NOKKLE policy. Such a policy gained momentum in the late 1990s. Shelter rarely has exotic wildlife, such as wildcat there. Most shelters mainly house dogs and cats. In many places, animal management agencies take animals to the shelter.
On the other hand, the wildlife reserve gives permanent residence rights to animals. In many cases it is not a cat or a dog but houses rare and endangered species. For example, Cast Shack of Jacksonville, Florida threatens wild cats. The sanctuary attempts to be as invasive as possible. Many sanctuaries allow visitors, but we are enhancing visitors' monitoring from shelters and zoos. Studies and observations are limited in the sanctuary, but animal testing is strictly forbidden. Since the main purpose of the sanctuary is a safe shelter for animals, animals rarely sell animals, trade them, and euthanize them rarely. Adoption is allowed in some wildlife reserves. But adoption in the sanctuary is related to animal donations rarely leave the sanctuary site.
