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This Memorial requests that New Mexico county managers, in partnership with animal shelters, animal welfare groups, and concerned individuals, create a detailed strategy to save all healthy, adoptable dogs and cats within the state's animal sheltering system by December 31, 2025, with the plan to be presented to the legislature by May 1, 2022. The memorial highlights the desire of New Mexico residents to improve the lives of shelter animals, noting that in 2020, over six thousand dogs and cats were euthanized in shelters, despite an increase in saved animals compared to the previous year, and defines a "no-kill community" as one that saves at least ninety percent of animals entering its system.