Susan Houser
Doobert: A Versatile Way to Save Lives
I recently interviewed Chris Roy, the creator of Doobert.com, about how Doobert can be used to help shelter workers and rescuers do their...
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Susan Houser
- Oct 11, 2018
- 8 min
Virginia’s No Kill Effort: Innovation and Inspiration
Introduction Last year I wrote about a new statewide No Kill campaign in Virginia. The campaign was developed by Makena Yarbrough,...
Susan Houser
- Jun 25, 2018
- 4 min
Maddie’s Pet Forum: A New Way to Communicate
Did you ever wish there was a place online where you could go with questions about shelter lifesaving and quickly get answers from...
Susan Houser
- May 9, 2018
- 9 min
Fostering: A Keystone Program — Interview with Kristen Auerbach
I recently had the opportunity to interview Kristen Auerbach, head of the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona. Before...
Susan Houser
- Jun 30, 2017
- 4 min
A New Statewide No Kill Effort Launches in Washington
I recently had the opportunity to interview Jeanine Foucher, executive director of Pet Net Washington (PNW). PNW is a grant-making...
Susan Houser
- Jun 2, 2017
- 5 min
Catching Up with Humane Network
In the last few years we’ve seen a welcome and much-needed increase in the number of shelter consultants. We now have a wide variety of...
Susan Houser
- Jun 2, 2016
- 5 min
Meet the Directors: Bonney Brown and Diane Blankenburg of Humane Network
Today I have a guest post written in conjunction with Bonney Brown and Diane Blankenburg about their consulting organization, Humane...
Susan Houser
- Apr 21, 2016
- 4 min
Getting to Know Target Zero
Several organizations have started doing No Kill counseling and shelter assessments in the last few years. One such group is Target Zero,...
Susan Houser
- Dec 9, 2015
- 5 min
Meet the Director: Teresa Johnson
During the 12 years that she worked with J.P. Morgan she was also volunteering for animal welfare issues. For many years she was...
Susan Houser
- Nov 17, 2015
- 6 min
Meet The Director: Lara Hudson
The villagers were living in conditions that made their existence seem almost as though they were on a different planet from the...
Susan Houser
- Nov 13, 2015
- 4 min
Meet the Director: Kerry Moyers-Horton
Kerry Moyers-Horton’s previous career was as an art director. She got a degree in graphic design and went to work in her home town of...
Susan Houser
- Jul 8, 2015
- 4 min
Meet the Director: Jim Bouderau
Jim Bouderau always liked animals, and as a teenager he worked for a veterinarian and thought about becoming a vet himself. Ultimately,...
Susan Houser
- May 6, 2015
- 3 min
Meet the Director: Makena Yarbrough
In the summer of 2000 she had a life-changing experience when she went with her parents on a vacation to Greece. She was dismayed by the...
Susan Houser
- Mar 27, 2015
- 5 min
Meet the Director: Rebecca Guinn
Then one day while she was at home she heard loud howling. She went out to investigate and found a stray dog on a neighbor’s property...
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