Susan Houser
News of the Week 05-17-15
A wonderful story that gets little attention is what happened in 1998 in Otsego County, Michigan. That year, a group of citizens got...
top of page
Susan Houser
May 13, 20152 min read
Virginia Shelters in 2014
Now that shelters in Virginia have filed their reports with the state for 2014, we can see how the top communities did compared with...
Susan Houser
May 10, 20154 min read
News of the Week 05-10-2015
The Asheville Humane Society (AHS), which handles animal sheltering for the city of Asheville and Buncombe County in North Carolina, has...
Susan Houser
May 3, 20152 min read
News of the Week 05-03-15
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...
Susan Houser
Apr 25, 20152 min read
News of the Week 04-26-15
Several public shelters reported progress on live releases this week. The Southern Pines Animal Shelter in Mississippi takes in almost...
Susan Houser
Apr 19, 20153 min read
News of the Week 04-19-15
This Tuesday, April 21, at 9PM EST, Scott Trebatoski is giving a free webinar on Return to Field (RTF) for community cats. The webcast,...
Susan Houser
Apr 15, 20154 min read
State of Virginia 2014 Statistics
The state of Virginia has posted a statistics summary for 2014 for the public shelters and intake rescues that report to it. With a...
Susan Houser
Apr 12, 20153 min read
News of the Week 04/12/15
Macomb County, which has a population of about 850,000 people, is immediately northeast of Detroit and is part of the Detroit metro area....
Susan Houser
Apr 5, 20153 min read
News of the Week 04-05-15
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005. The epic destruction that followed resulted in a revamping of US disaster...
Susan Houser
Apr 1, 20152 min read
Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania
The Chester County SPCA (CCSPCA) is an open admission shelter that serves two counties in Pennsylvania – Chester and Delaware. Chester...
Susan Houser
Mar 29, 20153 min read
News of the Week 03-29-15
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...
Susan Houser
Mar 21, 20153 min read
News of the Week 03-22-15
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...
Susan Houser
Mar 14, 20152 min read
Lynchburg, VA
Lynchburg is an independent city of about 76,000 people in Virginia, located southwest of Charlottesville and east of the Blue Ridge...
Susan Houser
Mar 9, 20152 min read
Larimer County, CO
Larimer County is located along the northern border of Colorado, and has a population of 300,000 people. The county is growing rapidly —...
Susan Houser
Mar 6, 20152 min read
Nelson County, VA
Nelson County, Virginia, is a rural county midway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. The population is about 15,000. Nelson County...
Susan Houser
Mar 2, 20151 min read
New York, NY
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...
Susan Houser
Feb 27, 20153 min read
Portland Metro Area
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....
Susan Houser
Feb 24, 20152 min read
King County, WA
King County, Washington, has a population of almost 2 million people, and its county seat is Seattle. Many of the people in the county...
Susan Houser
Feb 21, 20152 min read
Washington, DC
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...
Susan Houser
Feb 18, 20151 min read
New Hampshire
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...
bottom of page