OUT THE FRONT DOOR

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a prestigious, full-service consulting firm with international reach. The city of Dallas, TX, hired...

Have you noticed that No Kill communities tend to occur in clusters? Take Austin, which achieved a 90%+ live release rate in 2011....

There are two types of No Kill activists. Those of you who have been around for a while know exactly what I mean. For people who don’t,...

We hear a lot about No Kill programs, and very little about No Kill models. That’s too bad, because the programs are only one aspect of...

The Clear the Shelters adoption event is coming up on July 23, 2016. Last year, in its first year as a nationwide event, almost 20,000...

Moore County, North Carolina, is located about an hour southwest of Raleigh and is known for its golf courses. Two years ago Moore County...

We all want the United States to get to No Kill as fast as possible, but institutions take time to change. Given the inherent lag time...

Open Adoption – it’s a topic that’s sure to start a lively discussion among shelter people. But what, exactly, is it? One misconception...

Today I have a guest post written in conjunction with Bonney Brown and Diane Blankenburg about their consulting organization, Humane...

There has been a lot of discussion on this blog’s Facebook page over the last month or two about the role of public criticism of local...

Tazewell County, Virginia, is in the Appalachian mountains in the far southwestern part of the state. Its median household income is very...

Several organizations have started doing No Kill counseling and shelter assessments in the last few years. One such group is Target Zero,...

We have achieved very high spay-neuter rates for owned cats and dogs (83% for owned dogs and 91% for owned cats*). If people are to have...

I usually report about No Kill efforts that already have a track record of success. But not infrequently I get questions or comments from...

From the Out the Front Door HuffPo Blog: We used to have a terrible pet overpopulation problem in the United States. Intake at the Los...

Now that feral dogs have virtually disappeared in the United States and the supply of homeless dogs is approaching balance with demand,...

We sometimes hear that No Kill can happen overnight. That has been true in a handful of communities where shelter intake is small. In...

I’ve interviewed lots of No Kill shelter directors over the last few years, and many of them have told me about the mottoes they use to...

The last few years have been a very exciting time for cat advocates because the new community cat paradigms are revolutionizing how...

Here is my latest article for the Huffington Post blog. I’ve included all the big cities that have made it to No Kill or are almost...