Susan Houser
Georgetown, TX
Georgetown, Texas, is a city of 47,000 people in Williamson County just north of Austin. The Georgetown Animal Shelter is run by the city...
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Susan Houser
- Oct 13, 2014
- 2 min
Chippewa County, MI
Chippewa County, Michigan, is on the eastern edge of the Upper Peninsula. It has about 40,000 residents, including the county seat of...
Susan Houser
- Oct 11, 2014
- 2 min
Important New Study Published
Boston University has just published the results from its 21st-Century Mayor’s Leadership Survey. The purpose of this survey is to...
Susan Houser
- Oct 8, 2014
- 1 min
Benzie County, MI
Benzie County is in western Michigan, along the shore of Lake Michigan. It is a rural county with lots of parks and trails, and has a...
Susan Houser
- Oct 5, 2014
- 1 min
Fulton and DeKalb Counties, GA
Atlanta, Georgia, was known for years as a city with a very low live release rate. Rebecca Guinn decided to reform it. She gave up her...
Susan Houser
- Oct 3, 2014
- 2 min
Alger County, MI
Alger County is a small rural county located on the northern border of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Its population is 9600 people,...
Susan Houser
- Sep 30, 2014
- 3 min
Colorado Statistics for 2013
Colorado is one of the states that require animal shelters to report their statistics to the state. The reporting form is pretty detailed...
Susan Houser
- Sep 26, 2014
- 2 min
East Monmouth County, NJ
Monmouth County, New Jersey, is in the center of the state and has about 630,000 human residents. It is a county of many small cities and...
Susan Houser
- Sep 20, 2014
- 1 min
Ocean City, NJ
Ocean City is a resort town located in Cape May County, near the southern tip of New Jersey. The town has 12,000 year-round residents,...
Susan Houser
- Sep 13, 2014
- 1 min
No Kill is on an “S” Curve
Here is a bar graph showing the increase in the human population living in No Kill communities in the 10-year period from 2003 through...
Susan Houser
- Sep 10, 2014
- 2 min
Cape May County, NJ
Cape May County is a coastal resort area on the southern tip of New Jersey. It has almost 100,000 permanent residents, but the population...
Susan Houser
- Sep 7, 2014
- 2 min
Fort Morgan, CO
Fort Morgan is a city of 11,000 people located in the northeastern part of Colorado. It is the county seat of Morgan County, which has a...
Susan Houser
- Sep 3, 2014
- 2 min
Summit County, CO
Summit County is west of Denver and is home to about 28,000 people. It is a mountainous area of Colorado and the county was named for the...
Susan Houser
- Aug 28, 2014
- 2 min
Ouray and San Miguel Counties, CO
San Miguel County, located on the western border of Colorado, has 7600 residents. Ouray County, bordering San Miguel County to the east,...
Susan Houser
- Aug 25, 2014
- 2 min
Cedaredge, CO
Cedaredge (population 2300) and Orchard City (3100) are located in Delta County in western Colorado. Development in the county has been...
Susan Houser
- Aug 22, 2014
- 3 min
Mission Viejo, CA
Mission Viejo is a large planned community southeast of Los Angeles, with a population of about 93,000 people. The cities of Aliso Viejo...
Susan Houser
- Aug 19, 2014
- 1 min
Montrose, CO
Montrose is a city of 19,000 people located near the western border of Colorado. It is the county seat of Montrose County, which has a...
Susan Houser
- Aug 16, 2014
- 2 min
New Look — New Criteria
I’d like to thank everyone for their patience while the blog has been undergoing changes the last three months. I’ve still got some...
Susan Houser
- Aug 13, 2014
- 2 min
Routt County, CO
Routt County is located in northwest Colorado, bordering Wyoming. The population recorded in the 2010 census was 23,500. The county seat...
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