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Dear Friends — Thank you for all your support of and interest in the blog over the years. I hope all of you will visit and “like” the...

The animal control and sheltering situation in the state of Delaware is in transition. A private organization named the First State...

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...

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...

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...

The Humane Alliance of Western North Carolina, located in Asheville, has provided low-cost spay-neuter in the area since 1994, and...

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...

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has removed its draft statement on No-Kill terminology, which was in a comment period....

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has a series of position statements that it has promulgated on various issues such as TNR,...

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...

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...

The mayor of Seattle proclaimed the second annual Seattle Kitty Hall on July 10th. The proclamation renames the City Hall for an...

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...

The San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition rolled out a big announcement this past week that they have reached zero euthanasia of healthy and...

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,...

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...

First, a housekeeping note – if your organization does not already have my blog on your press release distribution list, please feel free...

The Cache Humane Society is located in the Cache Valley, an area of northern Utah and southeast Idaho that has over 100,000 residents....

The state of Colorado will be releasing its shelter statistics for 2014 in the next week or two. The statistics are collected pursuant to...

The big news this week is that Austin has selected Tawny Hammond as the new director of the Austin Animal Center. Hammond was previously...