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A wonderful story that gets little attention is what happened in 1998 in Otsego County, Michigan. That year, a group of citizens got...

Now that shelters in Virginia have filed their reports with the state for 2014, we can see how the top communities did compared with...

The Asheville Humane Society (AHS), which handles animal sheltering for the city of Asheville and Buncombe County in North Carolina, has...

There is a lot of news from Texas this week. An audit in Austin has found overcrowding at the city shelter. This is no surprise, as many...

Several public shelters reported progress on live releases this week. The Southern Pines Animal Shelter in Mississippi takes in almost...

This Tuesday, April 21, at 9PM EST, Scott Trebatoski is giving a free webinar on Return to Field (RTF) for community cats. The webcast,...

The state of Virginia has posted a statistics summary for 2014 for the public shelters and intake rescues that report to it. With a...

Macomb County, which has a population of about 850,000 people, is immediately northeast of Detroit and is part of the Detroit metro area....

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005. The epic destruction that followed resulted in a revamping of US disaster...

The Chester County SPCA (CCSPCA) is an open admission shelter that serves two counties in Pennsylvania – Chester and Delaware. Chester...

The big news this week is that Richard Avanzino is stepping down as president of Maddie’s Fund in June. Avanzino is often called the...

There is a lot of news this week, so let’s get to it: Miami-Dade County Animal Services has announced that it achieved an 81.5% live...

Lynchburg is an independent city of about 76,000 people in Virginia, located southwest of Charlottesville and east of the Blue Ridge...

Larimer County is located along the northern border of Colorado, and has a population of 300,000 people. The county is growing rapidly —...

Nelson County, Virginia, is a rural county midway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. The population is about 15,000. Nelson County...

New York City is the largest city in the United States, with an estimated 2013 population of over 8,400,000. The municipal shelter in New...

The city of Portland, Oregon, has a population of 584,000 people. It is the county seat of Multnomah County, which has 735,000 people....

King County, Washington, has a population of almost 2 million people, and its county seat is Seattle. Many of the people in the county...

Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, had a population of 602,000 at the 2010 census and is growing rapidly. The city is surrounded by...

New Hampshire is a small state in New England with a cold climate and mountainous terrain. The state has a population of 1,300,000 people...