Kansas City privatized its animal shelter to save money and ended up saving lives, too.
In the past, a trip to the Kansas City animal shelter was a death sentence for more than 5,000 cats and dogs a year. But according to the Kansas City Star, since contracting with Veterinary Management Corporation in March 2008, the euthanasia rate of strays has dropped by 30 percent. The new operator has increased adoptions from about 100 per month to about 300 per month.
Thanks to a successful partnership between the city and a private provider, Fluffy gets a new lease on life, and taxpayers save some cash.
North Carolina had a brief experiment with private prisons, but former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson said, “Comparing apples to apples, the private side [in New Mexico] produced the same goods and services for two-thirds the price. To me that was good government.”
