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Fire, crime, shelter management & the wisdom of Warren Cox

September 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Fire is always a threat”             ORLANDO,  Florida;  FRISCO,  Texas––“We were able to save 45 cats and 26 dogs,”  the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando posted to Facebook after a late night fire on September 15,  2021. “We are heartbroken to report that we lost 13 cats and there are four still missing,”  the posting […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior & health, Cats, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Other dog topics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alex Lewyt, Elisabeth Lewyt, Merritt Clifton, Mike Arms, Pet Alliance, Steve Bardy, Warren Cox

Orphans abandoned: Prodigal Pets by Susan K. Houser

August 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

A History of Animal Sheltering in America & the Origin of the No Kill Movement 228 pages,  2018. Free download from: https://outthefrontdoor.com/prodigal-pets/ Prodigal Pets,  offered as a free download by “Out The Front Door” blogger Susan K. Houser,  is the best bargain in books that anyone could hope to discover,  if interested in how animal […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Ed Duvin, Elisabeth Lewyt, Flora Kibbe, Lynda Foro, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Phyllis Wright, Sydney Coleman

Rescued dogs overheat––and pigs & chickens, as humane oversight fails

August 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

If rescue transporters can’t keep dogs from cooking in crates,  what happens to livestock?             NEW YORK CITY,  TORONTO,  LONDON (U.K.)––Again a New York City-based dog adoption transport has come to grief in hot weather,  again leaving the rest of the adoption rescue transport to wonder why. Recounted Gabrielle Fonrouge of the New York Post […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA, Welfare, Working horses Tagged With: Elisabeth Lewyt, Gabrielle Fonrouge, Jessica Scott-Reid, Kate Murphy, Liz Keller, Merritt Clifton, Perry Fina

Why is the ASPCA stonewalling about the deaths of 20 dogs in transport?

June 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Three-week silence howls for answers             NEW YORK CITY––Twenty dogs died on May 15,  2019 aboard an American SPCA vehicle that was hauling them from one or more Mississippi shelters to Wisconsin to be offered for adoption. That could be called just a really bad accident,  except that three weeks after Emily Jacobs and Ben […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Angel Hueca, Ben Feuerherd, Beth Clifton, Ed Sayres, Elisabeth Lewyt, Emily Jacobs, John Kullberg, Larry Hawk, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Perry Fina, Roger Caras

“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

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