OUT THE FRONT DOOR

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...

I recently posted a blog about Virginia’s new, statewide No Kill effort. Regional and statewide efforts are a big trend in No Kill right...

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...

The Virginia No Kill movement got its start when Makena Yarbrough, executive director of the Lynchburg Humane Society (LHS) in Lynchburg,...

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....

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jeanine Foucher, executive director of Pet Net Washington (PNW). PNW is a grant-making...

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

In the last few years we’ve seen a welcome and much-needed increase in the number of shelter consultants. We now have a wide variety of...

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Sara Pizano and Cameron Moore, the principal consultants for Target Zero (TZ). A lot has...

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...

A perennial issue for No Kill has been whether it is ethical for No Kill shelters to spay dogs and cats who are known to be pregnant....

We do not have any good method of collecting data on animal shelters, either today or historically. Understandably this has led to a...

The United States used to have a nationwide dog overpopulation problem. In the early 1970s humane advocates started mass spay-neuter...

If you’ve been in No Kill for very long, you’ve noticed it — the great majority of communities that have achieved sustainable No Kill...

It has been more than 20 years now since the concept of a No Kill community was created by Rich Avanzino in San Francisco. Today many...

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...

Michigan is one of the handful of states that (1) require shelters in the state to report their statistics and (2) make the reports...