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Bird conservationists are perhaps the most effective opponents of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs for feral cats. The conservationists...

These days, almost everyone involved with trying to increase live release rates for cats supports Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and...

The reaction to my August 2nd blog post about the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) draft position statement on “The Use of...

By Mark Penn OK, I admit it; I’m kind of a conference junkie. A bit of an introvert, so I don’t like to make myself very conspicuous, but...

Is it a good idea for No Kill advocates to try to get states to pass laws mandating various aspects of No Kill programs? The devil is...

Cats are not dogs. This seems obvious, and yet the correlative to that statement – that we cannot give equal treatment to cats by...

Right now several states still have gas chambers in active use in animal shelters. Reformers are working hard in those states to get gas...

“No Kill” is a loaded term. Some people love it, some people hate it, and a lot of people are just confused by it. How did this happen,...

If you follow some of the most popular No Kill social media sites, you might get the idea that things for shelter animals are terrible....

Scarlett, before she was named Scarlett, was a homeless calico cat who lived in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. In the late winter of...

No Kill advocates rarely address financial issues in animal control and sheltering. That’s natural enough, because we believe that the...

To borrow a phrase from the last few State of the Union speeches, the state of No Kill — is strong. In fact, it’s great. But the movement...

Friedrich Engels, one of the original philosophers of communist political theory, once said that there would be no need to abolish the...

I periodically get questions about how much it costs a city to transition to No Kill. Based on what I’ve seen in individual cities and...

A little more than a year ago an event happened that promised to be a turning point for efforts to reduce shelter killing of cats. That...

“We’ve been begging the city to go No Kill for years and nothing has happened!” How often have you seen a statement like that? Trying to...

There’s an article about Target Zero (TZ) in the most recent issue of Animal Sheltering (the HSUS magazine). The article has a pretty...

We tend to think of a 90% or higher live release rate for a shelter as indicating that the shelter is doing its job successfully. That’s...

In Which The Author Looks At Philosophy And Arrives At A Surprising Conclusion About The Best Method For No Kill To Market Itself (with...

I started my first blog keeping track of high-performing public shelters back in July of 2011. At that time most people thought there...