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This month, Maddie’s Fund is commencing a three-year effort to make Nevada a state where all healthy and treatable animals are saved. The...

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...

The most common measure of shelter performance is the live release rate, which measures the live outcomes of an individual shelter...

One factor that’s turning out to be very important for No Kill is the simple matter of whether shelters have to report their results to...

Colorado is one of the states that require animal shelters to report their statistics to the state. The reporting form is pretty detailed...

I’d like to say thanks to everyone who commented and sent me e-mails about the blog’s listing criteria going forward. The suggestions...

Dear Readers, You may recall that I recently listed St. George, Utah, as a 90%+ shelter in the right sidebar. The listing was based on...

As we’re waiting for the 2013 end-of-year statistics to start coming out, I thought this might be a good time to discuss a very...

The great majority of the communities listed in the right sidebar of this blog have attained their high live release rates by placing...

The Colorado Department of Agriculture collects detailed statistics* for shelters in the state that impound animals. Based on those...

The right sidebar of this blog has a list of communities that are saving 90% or more of their animal shelter intake. In order to be...

We all know the importance of the live release rate in evaluating a shelter’s performance. There is another very important statistic that...

This post is the first in what will be an occasional series trying to identify trends in the statistical data I’ve gathered in the course...