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Shelters make mega-payouts to pit bull victims: what will change?

September 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two seven-figure settlements in five days might make “socially responsible sheltering the new norm––if the idea isn’t corrupted             LOS ANGELES, California;  FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida––Representatives of pit bull attack victims twice in five days in early September 2019 announced apparent record-setting damage awards from animal care and control agencies for alleged negligence in allowing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Apryl Steele, Doug Rae, Jan McHugh-Smith, Marcia Mayeda, Merritt Clifton, Paige Woody, Pamela Devitt, Zoey Green

Why Nathan Winograd disciple Doug Rae won’t be Canonized

May 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Humane Society of Fremont County director Rae was would-be savior of Pueblo no-kill experiment while his own shelter allegedly went to hell             CANON CITY,  Colorado––Five weeks after Humane Society of Fremont County executive director Doug Rae told Pueblo Chieftan reporter Tracy Harmon that he knew how to “turn around” the Pueblo Animal Services shelter,  following […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doug Rae, Kelly Ramos, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Taylor Staton, Tony Kovaleski

“No-kill” debacle: will Pueblo bring “responsible sheltering” into vogue?

April 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

90% “live release” mandate failed catastrophically in less than 90 days             PUEBLO,  Colorado––“You can’t manage an animal shelter to a number,”  Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region president Jan McHugh-Smith told Pueblo Chieftan reporter Anthony A. Mestas,  hours after her organization returned to running the Pueblo Animal Services shelter on April 9,  2019,  […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Humane history, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doug Rae, Elisabeth Lewyt, Jan McHugh-Smith, Jeff Young, Lynda Foro, Marvin Mackie, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino

Doug Rae hired at HS of Fremont County, Colorado

October 11, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Doug Rae has been named executive director of the Humane Society of Fremont County, in Canon City, Colorado, following brief and often controversial animal shelter management stints in Phoenix, Maryland, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, and most recently as executive director of the Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island in Warren, Rhode Island. Much of the controversy has been […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Doug Rae, Mike Speedy, Nathan Winograd

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