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Susan Houser
Oct 13, 20142 min read
Chippewa County, MI
Chippewa County, Michigan, is on the eastern edge of the Upper Peninsula. It has about 40,000 residents, including the county seat of...
Susan Houser
Oct 11, 20142 min read
Important New Study Published
Boston University has just published the results from its 21st-Century Mayor’s Leadership Survey. The purpose of this survey is to...
Susan Houser
Oct 10, 20143 min read
Animal Stories
In the course of research for my book on animal shelter history, I’ve been checking out how children learn their attitudes toward...
Susan Houser
Oct 8, 20141 min read
Benzie County, MI
Benzie County is in western Michigan, along the shore of Lake Michigan. It is a rural county with lots of parks and trails, and has a...
Susan Houser
Oct 5, 20141 min read
Fulton and DeKalb Counties, GA
Atlanta, Georgia, was known for years as a city with a very low live release rate. Rebecca Guinn decided to reform it. She gave up her...
Susan Houser
Oct 3, 20142 min read
Alger County, MI
Alger County is a small rural county located on the northern border of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Its population is 9600 people,...
Susan Houser
Sep 30, 20143 min read
Colorado Statistics for 2013
Colorado is one of the states that require animal shelters to report their statistics to the state. The reporting form is pretty detailed...
Susan Houser
Sep 26, 20142 min read
East Monmouth County, NJ
Monmouth County, New Jersey, is in the center of the state and has about 630,000 human residents. It is a county of many small cities and...
Susan Houser
Sep 23, 20143 min read
Not All 90%+ Save Rates Are Created Equal
We tend to think of a 90% or higher live release rate for a shelter as indicating that the shelter is doing its job successfully. That’s...
Susan Houser
Sep 20, 20141 min read
Ocean City, NJ
Ocean City is a resort town located in Cape May County, near the southern tip of New Jersey. The town has 12,000 year-round residents,...
Susan Houser
Sep 17, 20143 min read
No Kill Heroes
Did you know that there was a whole group of people back in the 1980s and 1990s who were the creators of No Kill? These were the people...
Susan Houser
Sep 13, 20141 min read
No Kill is on an “S” Curve
Here is a bar graph showing the increase in the human population living in No Kill communities in the 10-year period from 2003 through...
Susan Houser
Sep 10, 20142 min read
Cape May County, NJ
Cape May County is a coastal resort area on the southern tip of New Jersey. It has almost 100,000 permanent residents, but the population...
Susan Houser
Sep 7, 20142 min read
Fort Morgan, CO
Fort Morgan is a city of 11,000 people located in the northeastern part of Colorado. It is the county seat of Morgan County, which has a...
Susan Houser
Sep 3, 20142 min read
Summit County, CO
Summit County is west of Denver and is home to about 28,000 people. It is a mountainous area of Colorado and the county was named for the...
Susan Houser
Aug 28, 20142 min read
Ouray and San Miguel Counties, CO
San Miguel County, located on the western border of Colorado, has 7600 residents. Ouray County, bordering San Miguel County to the east,...
Susan Houser
Aug 25, 20142 min read
Cedaredge, CO
Cedaredge (population 2300) and Orchard City (3100) are located in Delta County in western Colorado. Development in the county has been...
Susan Houser
Aug 22, 20143 min read
Mission Viejo, CA
Mission Viejo is a large planned community southeast of Los Angeles, with a population of about 93,000 people. The cities of Aliso Viejo...
Susan Houser
Aug 19, 20141 min read
Montrose, CO
Montrose is a city of 19,000 people located near the western border of Colorado. It is the county seat of Montrose County, which has a...
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