New Book on Animal Shelter History
Prodigal Pets: A History of Animal Sheltering in America and the Origin of the No Kill Movement is now published on the Out the Front Door website. The book begins …
Prodigal Pets: A History of Animal Sheltering in America and the Origin of the No Kill Movement is now published on the Out the Front Door website. The book begins …
This is a very exciting time for No Kill advocates because we are entering on a third, and final, stage of No Kill progress.* In just a few years, if …
I recently posted a blog about Virginia’s new, statewide No Kill effort. Regional and statewide efforts are a big trend in No Kill right now, and there is very often …
We do not have any good method of collecting data on animal shelters, either today or historically. Understandably this has led to a great deal of confusion about what has …
We hear a lot about No Kill programs, and very little about No Kill models. That’s too bad, because the programs are only one aspect of getting to No Kill. …
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 changes raise some …
Back in the 1970s it was not common for people to have their dogs and cats sterilized, and it was common for people to allow their dogs and cats to …
Here’s a pop quiz: In what calendar year did a community in the United States first report achieving No Kill, defined as a 90% or more live release rate maintained …
Did you know that there was a whole group of people back in the 1980s and 1990s who were the creators of No Kill? These were the people who developed …