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By now you have probably heard about “cat cafes,” which are the latest rage in the cat world. Cat cafes are coffee shops with cats. To...

The headline this week is that the Million Cat Challenge hit 250,000 cats saved under their program – 1/4th of the way to their goal of...

By Mark Penn OK, I admit it; I’m kind of a conference junkie. A bit of an introvert, so I don’t like to make myself very conspicuous, but...

The mayor of Seattle proclaimed the second annual Seattle Kitty Hall on July 10th. The proclamation renames the City Hall for an...

I thought it would be interesting to catch up on how big cities are doing. Of the 30 United States cities that Wiki lists as having the...

Jim Bouderau always liked animals, and as a teenager he worked for a veterinarian and thought about becoming a vet himself. Ultimately,...

The San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition rolled out a big announcement this past week that they have reached zero euthanasia of healthy and...

Is it a good idea for No Kill advocates to try to get states to pass laws mandating various aspects of No Kill programs? The devil is...

Top of the news this week is LifeLine Animal Project of Atlanta. Two years ago LifeLine, a non-profit formed by Rebecca Guinn in 2002,...

Cats are not dogs. This seems obvious, and yet the correlative to that statement – that we cannot give equal treatment to cats by...

The news is slow this week, so today’s post is on a subject I’ve been following for a while – the dysfunctional shelter situation in...

The specialty of shelter medicine, which has grown at a fast pace from its beginnings 16 years ago, is critical to No Kill. Shelter...

First, a housekeeping note – if your organization does not already have my blog on your press release distribution list, please feel free...

Right now several states still have gas chambers in active use in animal shelters. Reformers are working hard in those states to get gas...

The Cache Humane Society is located in the Cache Valley, an area of northern Utah and southeast Idaho that has over 100,000 residents....

The organized humane movement in the United States began right after the Civil War. From 1866 when the first SPCA was founded until the...

The state of Colorado will be releasing its shelter statistics for 2014 in the next week or two. The statistics are collected pursuant to...

“No Kill” is a loaded term. Some people love it, some people hate it, and a lot of people are just confused by it. How did this happen,...

The big news this week is that Austin has selected Tawny Hammond as the new director of the Austin Animal Center. Hammond was previously...

If you follow some of the most popular No Kill social media sites, you might get the idea that things for shelter animals are terrible....