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In many communities rescuers are the backbone of the No Kill effort. They pull animals from the shelter, including the ones most in need...

A perennial issue for No Kill has been whether it is ethical for No Kill shelters to spay dogs and cats who are known to be pregnant....

We do not have any good method of collecting data on animal shelters, either today or historically. Understandably this has led to a...

The United States used to have a nationwide dog overpopulation problem. In the early 1970s humane advocates started mass spay-neuter...

If you’ve been in No Kill for very long, you’ve noticed it — the great majority of communities that have achieved sustainable No Kill...

It has been more than 20 years now since the concept of a No Kill community was created by Rich Avanzino in San Francisco. Today many...

There are two types of No Kill activists. Those of you who have been around for a while know exactly what I mean. For people who don’t,...

We all want the United States to get to No Kill as fast as possible, but institutions take time to change. Given the inherent lag time...

Open Adoption – it’s a topic that’s sure to start a lively discussion among shelter people. But what, exactly, is it? One misconception...

There has been a lot of discussion on this blog’s Facebook page over the last month or two about the role of public criticism of local...

We have achieved very high spay-neuter rates for owned cats and dogs (83% for owned dogs and 91% for owned cats*). If people are to have...

I’ve interviewed lots of No Kill shelter directors over the last few years, and many of them have told me about the mottoes they use to...

The last few years have been a very exciting time for cat advocates because the new community cat paradigms are revolutionizing how...

One of the first things that new students learn about in law school is the famous 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, which...

Getting to and sustaining No Kill is more difficult in some places than others. If I were looking for the easiest place for a No Kill...

A great debate has been raging for several years now about how to control the number of feral cats. On one side of the debate we have...

Today, as the end of 2015 approaches, we can say with confidence that no healthy cat should be dying in a shelter. That includes feral...

Cats are commensal animals. This fact has some very important implications for trap-neuter-return (TNR) and for the battle to save cats...

According to the American Pet Products Association, 70% of dog owners and 57% of cat owners say their pet is like a child or family...

If a person walked up to a dog on the street and intentionally hit it with a tire iron in the face, breaking its nose and causing...