Susan Houser
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Susan Houser
- Sep 27, 2015
- 3 min
News Roundup 9-27-15
The animal control and sheltering situation in the state of Delaware is in transition. A private organization named the First State...
Susan Houser
- Sep 13, 2015
- 6 min
News Roundup 9-13-15
On September 8th, San Antonio’s Animal Care Services (ACS) announced that it had met the No Kill standard of a 90% live release rate...
Susan Houser
- Aug 30, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 8-30-15
We hear a lot about police officers shooting family pets with little or no provocation. In a recent case in Round Rock, Texas, a police...
Susan Houser
- Aug 23, 2015
- 7 min
Houston’s Problem
According to a 2005 mayor’s task force report for the city of Houston and Harris County, animal shelters in the area killed 80,000...
Susan Houser
- Aug 16, 2015
- 5 min
News of the Week 08-16-15
The Humane Alliance of Western North Carolina, located in Asheville, has provided low-cost spay-neuter in the area since 1994, and...
Susan Houser
- Aug 12, 2015
- 1 min
Humane Network Initiatives
Readers — I’m sure most if not all of you know about the great work that is being done by Humane Network, which is headed by the No Kill...
Susan Houser
- Aug 9, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 08-09-15
The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has removed its draft statement on No-Kill terminology, which was in a comment period....
Susan Houser
- Aug 2, 2015
- 5 min
The ASV’s Draft Position Paper on No Kill Terminology
The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has a series of position statements that it has promulgated on various issues such as TNR,...
Susan Houser
- Jul 30, 2015
- 3 min
The Astonishing Rise of the Cat Cafe
By now you have probably heard about “cat cafes,” which are the latest rage in the cat world. Cat cafes are coffee shops with cats. To...
Susan Houser
- Jul 26, 2015
- 4 min
News of the Week 07-26-15
The headline this week is that the Million Cat Challenge hit 250,000 cats saved under their program – 1/4th of the way to their goal of...
Susan Houser
- Jul 19, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 7-19-15
The mayor of Seattle proclaimed the second annual Seattle Kitty Hall on July 10th. The proclamation renames the City Hall for an...
Susan Houser
- Jul 12, 2015
- 3 min
News from Big Cities
I thought it would be interesting to catch up on how big cities are doing. Of the 30 United States cities that Wiki lists as having the...
Susan Houser
- Jul 5, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 07-05-15
The San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition rolled out a big announcement this past week that they have reached zero euthanasia of healthy and...
Susan Houser
- Jun 28, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 06-28-15
Top of the news this week is LifeLine Animal Project of Atlanta. Two years ago LifeLine, a non-profit formed by Rebecca Guinn in 2002,...
Susan Houser
- Jun 21, 2015
- 4 min
Augusta, Georgia
The news is slow this week, so today’s post is on a subject I’ve been following for a while – the dysfunctional shelter situation in...
Susan Houser
- Jun 14, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 06-14-15
First, a housekeeping note – if your organization does not already have my blog on your press release distribution list, please feel free...
Susan Houser
- Jun 7, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 06-07-15
The Cache Humane Society is located in the Cache Valley, an area of northern Utah and southeast Idaho that has over 100,000 residents....
Susan Houser
- May 31, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 05-31-15
The state of Colorado will be releasing its shelter statistics for 2014 in the next week or two. The statistics are collected pursuant to...
Susan Houser
- May 24, 2015
- 3 min
News of the Week 05-24-15
The big news this week is that Austin has selected Tawny Hammond as the new director of the Austin Animal Center. Hammond was previously...
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