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What will animal shelters look like in the years ahead – in 2030, 2040, 2050? What functions will they serve in their communities? These...

Many communities in the United States have a high intake of animals at the local shelter. The consulting service Humane Network recently...

I get this question frequently on social media, and there is no short answer, so I decided to write a blog on the topic. As a preliminary...

This blog takes a look at the big trends in No Kill in 2017, but first I want to say a word about sheltering in 2018. We’ve made...

This is the fifth and final blog in my series on the professionalization of the animal shelter, and it covers an important part of...

In the last few years, the idea that traditional shelters are fundamentally at odds with No Kill shelters has been evaporating....

An animal shelter is more than just the sum of its internal programs. It’s also a public institution that has an interlocking...

In the last few years several new programs have become central to the professionalization of animal sheltering. One theme common to those...

In recent years the animal-shelter industry has made giant strides in professionalizing its operations. This blog post is an introduction...

Length of Stay (LOS) is the amount of time that an animal spends in a shelter between impoundment and disposition. It is a particularly...

Harris County and the city of Houston have five major intake shelters. In 2005, a city task force reported that annual intake at the five...

It was the summer of 2014, and Corey Price had a problem. She had recently taken over as manager of Irving Animal Services (IAS), in the...

Back in 2010, the city of Austin started making national news as its animal shelter neared the goal of reaching a 90%+ live release rate....

Anderson County, South Carolina, is in the western part of the state, bordering Greenville County. It is located on the I-85 corridor...

Many of the general retrospectives on 2016 that have appeared in the media in the last few days have branded the year as a disaster. It’s...

Most industries pay attention to where they were in the past and where they are now. Changes over time in the parameters that are...

This is Part II in a three-part series on how the unique legal status of domestic pets affects the infrastructure of No Kill. Here is a...

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....

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...