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The news is slow this week, so today’s post is on a subject I’ve been following for a while – the dysfunctional shelter situation in...

Now that shelters in Virginia have filed their reports with the state for 2014, we can see how the top communities did compared with...

The state of Virginia has posted a statistics summary for 2014 for the public shelters and intake rescues that report to it. With a...

The Chester County SPCA (CCSPCA) is an open admission shelter that serves two counties in Pennsylvania – Chester and Delaware. Chester...

Lynchburg is an independent city of about 76,000 people in Virginia, located southwest of Charlottesville and east of the Blue Ridge...

Larimer County is located along the northern border of Colorado, and has a population of 300,000 people. The county is growing rapidly —...

Nelson County, Virginia, is a rural county midway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. The population is about 15,000. Nelson County...

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...

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....

King County, Washington, has a population of almost 2 million people, and its county seat is Seattle. Many of the people in the county...

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...

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...

San Antonio is a fast-growing city in south-central Texas with a population of 1.3 million people.  It is the county seat of Bexar...

Brown County is located in eastern Wisconsin, bordering the Green Bay area of Lake Michigan. Its population is 248,000 people. Its county...

Lane County is located in western Oregon and has close to 352,000 residents. It contains the cities of Eugene (156,000 residents) and...

Jacksonville is a city of 837,000 people on the northeast coast of Florida.  It is the largest city in Florida and the 12th largest city...

Whidbey Island, which is part of Island County, Washington, is at the northern edge of Puget Sound, 30 miles north of Seattle. The island...

Augusta County, Virginia, is located in the Shenandoah Valley area west of Charlottesville. Its population was 74,000 in the 2010 census....

Ventura County is located in southern California, northwest of Los Angeles. The population was 823,000 at the 2010 census. Its median...

Alachua County is located in north central Florida. The county contains the city of Gainesville, which has a population of about 124,000,...