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Cats are commensal animals. This fact has some very important implications for trap-neuter-return (TNR) and for the battle to save cats...

The southeast part of the United States used to be a graveyard of No Kill hopes. Communities in the southeast have traditionally lagged...

According to the American Pet Products Association, 70% of dog owners and 57% of cat owners say their pet is like a child or family...

If a person walked up to a dog on the street and intentionally hit it with a tire iron in the face, breaking its nose and causing...

In the great majority of cities and counties in the United States stray dogs are not a major problem. In the last 40 years there have...

Dear Friends — Thank you for all your support of and interest in the blog over the years. I hope all of you will visit and “like” the...

[Dear Readers – This is the first in a series of occasional posts on shelter data. Not statistics on individual shelters, but more...

The animal control and sheltering situation in the state of Delaware is in transition. A private organization named the First State...

In the last 30 to 40 years there have been great changes in how most owned dogs and cats live their lives in the United States. Those...

Bird conservationists are perhaps the most effective opponents of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs for feral cats. The conservationists...

On September 8th, San Antonio’s Animal Care Services (ACS) announced that it had met the No Kill standard of a 90% live release rate...

We hear a lot about police officers shooting family pets with little or no provocation. In a recent case in Round Rock, Texas, a police...

These days, almost everyone involved with trying to increase live release rates for cats supports Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and...

According to a 2005 mayor’s task force report for the city of Houston and Harris County, animal shelters in the area killed 80,000...

The Humane Alliance of Western North Carolina, located in Asheville, has provided low-cost spay-neuter in the area since 1994, and...

Readers — I’m sure most if not all of you know about the great work that is being done by Humane Network, which is headed by the No Kill...

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has removed its draft statement on No-Kill terminology, which was in a comment period....

The reaction to my August 2nd blog post about the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) draft position statement on “The Use of...

The Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) has a series of position statements that it has promulgated on various issues such as TNR,...