Susan Houser
The State of No Kill: Western U.S.
West Coast – Washington, Oregon, California Upper Rockies – Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Middle Rockies – Nevada, Utah, Colorado Lower...
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Susan Houser
Jan 19, 20164 min read
The State of No Kill: Central U.S.
This post looks at how No Kill did in the central part of the United States in 2015. We can break the area down into four regions: Upper...
Susan Houser
Jan 15, 20164 min read
The State of No Kill: Southeast
This post looks at how No Kill did in the Southeast in 2015. We can break the area down into two regions: Upper Southeast – Virginia,...
Susan Houser
Jan 10, 20164 min read
The State of No Kill: Northeast
This is the first in a series of posts on the regions of the United States and how each one is doing at No Kill as we begin 2016. These...
Susan Houser
Jan 5, 20166 min read
Attack on No Kill
UPDATE Jan. 6, 2016: The city council meeting set for January 12, 2016 to discuss the ABC letter has been cancelled. At this time the...
Susan Houser
Jan 1, 20164 min read
The State of No Kill: 2016
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...
Susan Houser
Dec 17, 20151 min read
The Year That Was
During the last two weeks of the year I’m going to re-run my three-part series on the coming shelter dog shortage and the future of...
Susan Houser
Dec 13, 20153 min read
Tazewell County’s No Kill Effort – Part II
One key to the new possibilities is Maggie Asbury, who was elected to the county Board of Supervisors recently. She is animal-friendly...
Susan Houser
Dec 9, 20155 min read
Meet the Director: Teresa Johnson
During the 12 years that she worked with J.P. Morgan she was also volunteering for animal welfare issues. For many years she was...
Susan Houser
Dec 5, 20154 min read
Big Dogs
Big dogs are a challenge for many animal shelters. In my conversations with shelter directors, whether the shelter is large or small,...
Susan Houser
Dec 5, 20151 min read
Now on Twitter
Out the Front Door is now on Twitter! Handle is @outthefrontdoor. The Twitter feed will have the blogs of course, but also No Kill news...
Susan Houser
Nov 29, 201510 min read
The Last Great Barriers to No Kill – Tazewell County Edition
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...
Susan Houser
Nov 25, 20154 min read
Who Speaks For No Kill?
One of the first things that new students learn about in law school is the famous 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, which...
Susan Houser
Nov 21, 20156 min read
Keeping Our No Kill Directors
Getting to and sustaining No Kill is more difficult in some places than others. If I were looking for the easiest place for a No Kill...
Susan Houser
Nov 17, 20156 min read
Meet The Director: Lara Hudson
The villagers were living in conditions that made their existence seem almost as though they were on a different planet from the...
Susan Houser
Nov 13, 20154 min read
Meet the Director: Kerry Moyers-Horton
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...
Susan Houser
Nov 9, 20159 min read
The Decline in Feral Cats
A great debate has been raging for several years now about how to control the number of feral cats. On one side of the debate we have...
Susan Houser
Nov 4, 20157 min read
Happy Cats
Today, as the end of 2015 approaches, we can say with confidence that no healthy cat should be dying in a shelter. That includes feral...
Susan Houser
Nov 1, 20153 min read
The San Francisco No-Kill Model
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...
Susan Houser
Oct 28, 20154 min read
The Importance of the Animal Shelter Building
Until recent years, public animal shelter buildings were designed with the idea that a high percentage of the dogs and cats taken in...
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