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Otsego County is located in a rural area in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, and has a population of about 23,000 people....

A little more than a year ago an event happened that promised to be a turning point for efforts to reduce shelter killing of cats. That...

Montmorency County, Michigan, is located in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, and has about 10,000 residents. Up until...

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...

Midland County, as you would expect from the name, is located near the center of Michigan. It is primarily rural, neither wealthy nor...

[NOTE: The 90% Reported category lists communities whose animal shelter systems report having been at a 90%+ live release rate for at...

Marquette County is located in the upper peninsula of Michigan and has about 67,000 residents. The city of Marquette, with about 21,000...

[NOTE: The Worth Watching category lists communities whose animal shelter systems are doing substantially better than average, but have...

“We’ve been begging the city to go No Kill for years and nothing has happened!” How often have you seen a statement like that? Trying to...

Keweenaw, Houghton, and Baraga counties are located in a mostly rural area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Together, they form a...

Grosse Ile Township consists of a large island and several smaller islands adjacent to Detroit. The area has about 10,000 residents. The...

San Francisco is a combined city and county located in northern California. It has a population of about 837,000 people. The city/county...

There’s an article about Target Zero (TZ) in the most recent issue of Animal Sheltering (the HSUS magazine). The article has a pretty...

Gogebic County in Michigan and Iron County in Wisconsin are located across the state boundary from each other at the western end of...

A report out of Waco, Texas, states that the city shelter’s live release rate is currently “as high as” 85%, up from 25% or less in...

Delta County is located in Michigan’s upper peninsula and has over 37,000 residents. The county seat is the city of Escanaba, with 13,000...

I’m working on a post about how communities get to No Kill. I went into the research for this post thinking that there were 4 main ways...

There’s so much news these days about 90%+ and Worth Watching communities and shelters that I can’t even stay close to keeping up with it...

Crawford County in northern Michigan has a population of about 14,000, including the county seat of Grayling. The AuSable Valley Animal...

Georgetown, Texas, is a city of 47,000 people in Williamson County just north of Austin. The Georgetown Animal Shelter is run by the city...