Jayne spent career providing vet care to remote & indigenous communities GRAND FORKS, North Dakota–– “Eric Jayne, DVM, lost his life this morning in a multi-vehicle accident near Grand Forks, North Dakota,” Humane Society of the U.S. senior state director Lisa Kauffman informed friends and colleagues at mid-day on July 2, 2021. “The North […]
New L.A. animal control chief Brown expected to go “Back to basics”
Brown brings to the job background in animal control, personnel management, and law enforcement, knows Los Angeles, & is bilingual LOS ANGELES––Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti on June 24, 2021 nominated Dana Brown, 57, to become the next Los Angeles Animal Services general manager, succeeding Brenda Barnette, 72, who retired on May 7, 2021 after […]
New approach to cat/dog contraception explained in simple terms
Gene transfer may confer lifelong sterility in one shot (but it can’t be done with a cookie) PORTLAND, Oregon––Could mice produce a miracle drug capable of preventing cat reproduction? If mice could do it unassisted, through normal evolution, you can bet your catnip they would have, long since. But mice assisted by a battalion of […]
Shooting war: cats win, feeders lose in East Bay Regional Park District
East Bay Regional Park District agrees to ceasefire if cat rescuers remove cats from sensitive wildlife areas OAKLAND, California––Histrionic headlines and activist alerts aside, what the East Bay Regional Park District board of directors really did at a heated June 15, 2021 meeting over cat policy was to: Permanently reassign staff biologist David “Doctor […]
Spay/neuter popcorn? It’s as real as Alex Pacheco’s s/n cookies!
600 million stray dogs would eat it, & it would not need FDA approval POMPANO BEACH, Florida––Asked a former major financial backer of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, upon receiving founder Alex Pacheco 2021 “summer fundraising drive” appeal for more money with which to develop a spay-and-neuter cookie, “I wonder if he’s tested popcorn? […]
“Return to Field” from an animal care & control perspective
by Dawn D. Danielson, RVT, former director, County of San Diego Animal Services The subject of intake, holding and release of cats into the community from which they were brought to a shelter is becoming an emotionally charged debate over, among other things, the lawfulness of programs operating under such names as “community cats,” “return […]
San Diego showdown: trap-neuter-return advocates sue vs. return-to-field
Court case hinges on the difference between a truly feral cat and a tame, friendly cat found at large SAN DIEGO, California—A lawsuit brought against the San Diego Humane Society & SPCA by the Southern California animal rescue charities Pet Assistance Foundation and Paw Protectors seeks to establish, for the first time, a clear legal […]
Navajo Nation: “They hid the dogs who killed my daughter!”
Pit bull proliferation––and dog attack fatality rate 100 times that of the U.S. as a whole FORT DEFIANCE, Navajo Nation–– “They hid the dogs that attacked and killed my daughter from animal control” Marissa “Ris” Rose Jones posted to Facebook. “What is wrong with these people?” Jones helplessly asked. Jones’ daughter, Lyssa Rose Upshaw, […]
Remembering Rory Young, Glenn Summerlin, & Helen Marston
Soldier, fundraiser, & campaigner: three animal advocates whose work & approaches could scarcely have differed more Rory Young, 49, founder of the anti-poaching organization Chengeta Wildlife, was killed on April 26, 2021, along with Spanish journalist David Beriáin, 44, and photographer Roberto Fraile, 47, in an ambush in Burkina Faso attributed to the jihadist militia […]
TNR boomed before COVID-19 hit, Alley Cat Rescue survey shows
Feral cat sterilizations were up 23% in seven years; what is happening now? MOUNT RANIER, Maryland––Feral cat control by trap-neuter-return [TNR] was accomplishing more than ever before through 2019, including a 23% increase in the numbers of cats sterilized over the annual average in 2012, suggests newly released data from the Alley Cat Rescue […]