OUT THE FRONT DOOR

Prodigal Pets: A History of Animal Sheltering in America and the Origin of the No Kill Movement by Susan K. Houser. An in-depth look at...

When cat advocates try to establish programs to help and manage outdoor cats, they frequently meet resistance from wildlife...

A lot has been happening at Out the Front Door (OTFD) lately. Today I want to introduce a new website for OTFD, a new book to be...

There’s considerable controversy over whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing for rescues to buy puppy mill breeding stock at auctions....

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

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

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

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

West Coast – Washington, Oregon, California Upper Rockies – Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Middle Rockies – Nevada, Utah, Colorado Lower...

This post looks at how No Kill did in the central part of the United States in 2015. We can break the area down into four regions: Upper...

This post looks at how No Kill did in the Southeast in 2015. We can break the area down into two regions: Upper Southeast – Virginia,...

This is the first in a series of posts on the regions of the United States and how each one is doing at No Kill as we begin 2016. These...

UPDATE Jan. 6, 2016: The city council meeting set for January 12, 2016 to discuss the ABC letter has been cancelled. At this time the...

During the last two weeks of the year I’m going to re-run my three-part series on the coming shelter dog shortage and the future of...

One key to the new possibilities is Maggie Asbury, who was elected to the county Board of Supervisors recently. She is animal-friendly...

Out the Front Door is now on Twitter! Handle is @outthefrontdoor. The Twitter feed will have the blogs of course, but also No Kill news...

Is No Kill possible everywhere? I think the answer to that question is “yes.” That said, we have a problem that I have not seen discussed...

Until recent years, public animal shelter buildings were designed with the idea that a high percentage of the dogs and cats taken in...

The southeast part of the United States used to be a graveyard of No Kill hopes. Communities in the southeast have traditionally lagged...

In the great majority of cities and counties in the United States stray dogs are not a major problem. In the last 40 years there have...