OUT THE FRONT DOOR

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

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...

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

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...

Today, on the first day of the new year, it’s time to take a look at how No Kill is doing nationally. I can’t tell the story of every...

During the 12 years that she worked with J.P. Morgan she was also volunteering for animal welfare issues. For many years she was...

Big dogs are a challenge for many animal shelters. In my conversations with shelter directors, whether the shelter is large or small,...

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...

The villagers were living in conditions that made their existence seem almost as though they were on a different planet from the...

Kerry Moyers-Horton’s previous career was as an art director. She got a degree in graphic design and went to work in her home town of...

When people talk about the San Francisco model of No Kill, they are usually referring to a set of programs that were developed by Richard...

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

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...

[Dear Readers – This is the first in a series of occasional posts on shelter data. Not statistics on individual shelters, but more...

Jim Bouderau always liked animals, and as a teenager he worked for a veterinarian and thought about becoming a vet himself. Ultimately,...

The specialty of shelter medicine, which has grown at a fast pace from its beginnings 16 years ago, is critical to No Kill. Shelter...

Right now several states still have gas chambers in active use in animal shelters. Reformers are working hard in those states to get gas...

In the summer of 2000 she had a life-changing experience when she went with her parents on a vacation to Greece. She was dismayed by the...

One of the big things that sets No Kill apart from traditional animal sheltering is that No Kill treats the treatables. The development...