I have talked about this in previous blogs but we need to keep hearing it until we understand this. Our dogs and cats cannot speak for...

Twas the night before Christmas And all through the land Heroes were working to educate So more would understand. Our cats don’t deserve...

“Come on down!” Anyone that has ever watched the TV game show “The Price Is Right” recognizes these familiar words. Bob Barker, the...

What does it mean to “believe”? Various dictionary definitions show it to mean “be confident about something” and “to hold something as...

Below are the contents of an email I received today from Nathan Winograd. (Many others received it too.) It is an important read for all...

This blog is a little different in that the body of this blog is not written by me but rather by a well-known spay/neuter advocate back...

I must be a dreamer. I keep thinking that our animal shelter leaders will see the need to be transparent to EVERYONE with their data....

I have read a lot of posts by national animal sheltering groups and their affiliates, and by shelters also. Almost without fail, the...

"Currently, shelters are in crisis mode, with overcrowding and lagging adoptions." "Pet overpopulation seems to be increasing, leading to...

The answer should be YES. But is it? The current animal sheltering model, backed and pushed by our largest national organizations, puts a...

Transparency is an ethic that makes it easy for others to see what is being done. All animal sheltering models not only must include...

I had intended to begin talking about shelter transparency and its role in animal sheltering with this post. We had breaking news last...

Let’s continue our discussion from my last blog on how transferring/transporting reduces the need for killing and raises shelters’ Live...

For the purposes of this chat, we won’t distinguish between Live Release Rates, Save Rates or “No-Kill" but rather address them in whole...

We all know that there are cats - and now dogs - everywhere in need of help. Owners are having issues in their lives and they can’t care...

People who know me know I rarely post anything personal but today I want to share a few of my thoughts with everyone. (Oh-oh.) As we find...

Let’s answer the obvious question first: What is a de facto animal shelter? It is in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not, where a...

Question: Does it benefit the animals or is it about something else (improving shelter numbers and outcomes, raising more donations,...