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A wonderful story that gets little attention is what happened in 1998 in Otsego County, Michigan. That year, a group of citizens got...

Now that shelters in Virginia have filed their reports with the state for 2014, we can see how the top communities did compared with...

The Asheville Humane Society (AHS), which handles animal sheltering for the city of Asheville and Buncombe County in North Carolina, has...

In the summer of 2000 she had a life-changing experience when she went with her parents on a vacation to Greece. She was dismayed by the...

There is a lot of news from Texas this week. An audit in Austin has found overcrowding at the city shelter. This is no surprise, as many...

Scarlett, before she was named Scarlett, was a homeless calico cat who lived in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. In the late winter of...

Several public shelters reported progress on live releases this week. The Southern Pines Animal Shelter in Mississippi takes in almost...

The most common measure of shelter performance is the live release rate, which measures the live outcomes of an individual shelter...

This Tuesday, April 21, at 9PM EST, Scott Trebatoski is giving a free webinar on Return to Field (RTF) for community cats. The webcast,...

The state of Virginia has posted a statistics summary for 2014 for the public shelters and intake rescues that report to it. With a...

Macomb County, which has a population of about 850,000 people, is immediately northeast of Detroit and is part of the Detroit metro area....

One of the big things that sets No Kill apart from traditional animal sheltering is that No Kill treats the treatables. The development...

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005. The epic destruction that followed resulted in a revamping of US disaster...

The Chester County SPCA (CCSPCA) is an open admission shelter that serves two counties in Pennsylvania – Chester and Delaware. Chester...

The big news this week is that Richard Avanzino is stepping down as president of Maddie’s Fund in June. Avanzino is often called the...

Then one day while she was at home she heard loud howling. She went out to investigate and found a stray dog on a neighbor’s property...

TNR for dogs? It may sound crazy, but hear me out. We have a few cities, particularly in the southern part of the United States, where...

There is a lot of news this week, so let’s get to it: Miami-Dade County Animal Services has announced that it achieved an 81.5% live...

As you may have heard, there is a new list of No Kill communities in town, maintained by an organization called Saving 90. In a quick...

No Kill advocates rarely address financial issues in animal control and sheltering. That’s natural enough, because we believe that the...