Avanzino in 23 years at the San Francisco SPCA helped to create the “no kill movement,”  but in 17 years as founding president of Maddie’s Fund tended to discredit the concept PLEASANTON, California––Maddie’s Fund on September 29,  2026––nine days after Richard Avanzino’s actual death,  announced that “Rich Avanzino, affectionately and widely known as the father […]