by Esther Mechler The so-called “NoKill” movement needs to be renamed the “Mission Accomplished” movement in honor of the “Mission Accomplished” speech delivered by U.S. President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush stated in the speech that the war in Iraq was finished. That was over […]
Two big breaks for Indian street dogs
Culling dogs is illegal, affirms Supreme Court of India NEW DELHI, CHENNAI––The Animal Welfare Board of India on November 18, 2015 welcomed a Supreme Court of India ruling upholding the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, providing the legal framework for ABC programs nationwide and prohibiting killing street dogs for the purpose of population […]
New data shows decline of rabies in India
Oft-claimed figures high by magnitudes of order NEW DELHI, NAGPUR––Newly published data from the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence and the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has added statistical weight to the likelihood that the most widely cited estimates of human rabies deaths in India are magnitudes of order high. The accuracy of the estimates matter […]
Culling dogs is illegal, affirms Supreme Court of India
Upholds national Animal Birth Control program NEW DELHI, CHENNAI––The Animal Welfare Board of India on November 18, 2015 welcomed a Supreme Court of India ruling upholding the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, providing the legal framework for ABC programs nationwide and prohibiting killing street dogs for the purpose of population control. The verdict, […]
Why we cannot adopt our way out of shelter killing
Not every animal can or should be saved Among the most cherished and most amplified of myths afflicting the animal rescue and sheltering community in recent years is the notion that with intensified effort and investment we could adopt our way out of ever having to euthanize an animal who is not already in extremis, […]
Entire PetSmart Charities staff gets the boot
How much did dog attack liability have to do with it? PHOENIX, Arizona––Almost a year of wondering what the December 14, 2014 sale of PetSmart would mean to PetSmart Charities came to an abrupt end on November 4, 2015, when the entire PetSmart Charities staff got the boot. Incorporated in 1994 /as an independent […]
Loss of access to ketamine threatens progress in humane euthanasia
by Ruth Steinberger, founder, Spay First (www.spayfirst.org) There is a proposed change in the U.S. and global regulatory status of ketamine, a safe, effective and cost effective anesthetic drug used in both human and veterinary medicine. Sometimes referred to as a “date rape” drug, ketamine is already highly controlled, yet any veterinarian or clinic choosing to […]
Who invented no-kill? (It wasn’t Nathan Winograd)
Many pioneers contributed to developing the methods of today The origins of no-kill dog and cat sheltering may be traced back as far as 1858, when Elizabeth Morris and Anne Waln cofounded the first animal shelter in the U.S. on the outskirts of Philadelphia. The Morris/Waln collaboration has two surviving direct descendants, the Women’s Humane Society and […]
Dogfight over HSI/HSUS dog rescues in South Korea
Did the dogs come from dog meat farms or from puppy millers, hoarders, & dogfighters? SEOUL, South Korea––Has Humane Society International thus far in 2015 bought out three South Korean breeders of dogs for meat, or several puppy millers breeding primarily for the pet trade, and/or unwittingly bought a dogfighter’s culls, and/or just bought some […]
Heartless Humane Society raffles a rifle
Put fundraising opportunity ahead of humane values OTTUMWA, Iowa––Raffling off a Colt M4 carbine hunting rifle as a fundraiser for the allegedly “no kill” Heartland Humane Society, of Ottumwa, Iowa, Belinda and Anthony Smith Cicarella in mid-October 2015 demonstrated considerably less appreciation of the history, goals, ethics, and philosophy of the humane movement than […]
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