Susan Houser
Aquidneck Island, RI
Newport County in Rhode Island (population 83,000) lies along Narragansett Bay, and there are several islands in the bay that are part of...
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Susan Houser
Dec 5, 20141 min read
Worth Watching – Downriver, MI
Downriver Central Animal Control (DCAC, formerly the Southgate Animal Shelter) is a cooperative animal control and sheltering...
Susan Houser
Dec 2, 20142 min read
Roscommon County, MI
Roscommon County is located in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, in the Au Sable State Forest area. There are no...
Susan Houser
Nov 29, 20142 min read
Brother Wolf Goes All-Out For Pet Retention
Brother Wolf is a large, non-profit rescue organization in Asheville, North Carolina, that helps the city shelter and is working to make...
Susan Houser
Nov 28, 20142 min read
Otsego County, MI
Otsego County is located in a rural area in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, and has a population of about 23,000 people....
Susan Houser
Nov 24, 20142 min read
Montmorency County, MI
Montmorency County, Michigan, is located in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, and has about 10,000 residents. Up until...
Susan Houser
Nov 21, 20144 min read
On The Record
One factor that’s turning out to be very important for No Kill is the simple matter of whether shelters have to report their results to...
Susan Houser
Nov 20, 20142 min read
Midland County, MI
Midland County, as you would expect from the name, is located near the center of Michigan. It is primarily rural, neither wealthy nor...
Susan Houser
Nov 17, 20142 min read
90% Reported – Kitsap County, WA
[NOTE: The 90% Reported category lists communities whose animal shelter systems report having been at a 90%+ live release rate for at...
Susan Houser
Nov 14, 20141 min read
Marquette County, MI
Marquette County is located in the upper peninsula of Michigan and has about 67,000 residents. The city of Marquette, with about 21,000...
Susan Houser
Nov 11, 20142 min read
Worth Watching – St. Paul, MN
[NOTE: The Worth Watching category lists communities whose animal shelter systems are doing substantially better than average, but have...
Susan Houser
Nov 8, 20142 min read
Copper Country, MI
Keweenaw, Houghton, and Baraga counties are located in a mostly rural area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Together, they form a...
Susan Houser
Nov 6, 20141 min read
Grosse Ile, MI
Grosse Ile Township consists of a large island and several smaller islands adjacent to Detroit. The area has about 10,000 residents. The...
Susan Houser
Nov 3, 20141 min read
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco is a combined city and county located in northern California. It has a population of about 837,000 people. The city/county...
Susan Houser
Oct 30, 20142 min read
Gogebic County, MI
Gogebic County in Michigan and Iron County in Wisconsin are located across the state boundary from each other at the western end of...
Susan Houser
Oct 27, 20143 min read
Consultants
A report out of Waco, Texas, states that the city shelter’s live release rate is currently “as high as” 85%, up from 25% or less in...
Susan Houser
Oct 26, 20142 min read
Delta County, MI
Delta County is located in Michigan’s upper peninsula and has over 37,000 residents. The county seat is the city of Escanaba, with 13,000...
Susan Houser
Oct 23, 20142 min read
Question For My Readers
I’m working on a post about how communities get to No Kill. I went into the research for this post thinking that there were 4 main ways...
Susan Houser
Oct 21, 20141 min read
Introducing the “News Bit” Page
There’s so much news these days about 90%+ and Worth Watching communities and shelters that I can’t even stay close to keeping up with it...
Susan Houser
Oct 19, 20142 min read
Crawford County, MI
Crawford County in northern Michigan has a population of about 14,000, including the county seat of Grayling. The AuSable Valley Animal...
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