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West Coast – Washington, Oregon, California Upper Rockies – Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Middle Rockies – Nevada, Utah, Colorado Lower...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One key to the new possibilities is Maggie Asbury, who was elected to the county Board of Supervisors recently. She is animal-friendly...

During the 12 years that she worked with J.P. Morgan she was also volunteering for animal welfare issues. For many years she was...

Big dogs are a challenge for many animal shelters. In my conversations with shelter directors, whether the shelter is large or small,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The villagers were living in conditions that made their existence seem almost as though they were on a different planet from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Until recent years, public animal shelter buildings were designed with the idea that a high percentage of the dogs and cats taken in...