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Weary (and wary) rescuers decry dangerous dogs, yet never say “pit bull”

March 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Statements otherwise echo decades of warnings from ANIMALS 24-7             DETROIT, Michigan––Kristina Millman-Rinaldi,  who in 2011 founded Detroit Dog Rescue, billed as “Detroit’s first no-kill shelter,”  rattled the overlapping “no kill” and “rescue” worlds on March 12,  2022 by posting to Facebook a critique of the prevailing “no kill” and “rescue” philosophy strikingly similar in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, Diane Orenchuk, Humane Society of the U.S., Kristine Millman-Rinaldi, Maddie's Fund, Mark Kumpf, Merritt Clifton

No-kill pioneer Richard Avanzino to retire after dispensing $153 million in Maddie’s Fund grants

March 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Founding president of Maddie’s Fund after long tenure as president of the San Francisco SPCA          PLEASANTON, California––Maddie’s Fund on March 25, 2015 announced that founding president Richard Avanzino is to retire in June, at the end of the current fiscal year. Said David Duffield,   who cofounded Maddie’s Fund with his wife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Right, Feral cats, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Brenda Barnette, David Duffield, Emma Clifford, Maddie's Fund, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd, Richard Avanzino

Maddie’s Fund scraps model shelter plan

April 27, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Model shelter is no shelter at all PLEASANTON, California––The long-awaited state-of-the-art Maddie’s Fund teaching and training shelter turns out to be no shelter at all. Whether this reflects a change in the Maddie’s Fund thinking about how best to transition the U.S. to no-kill animal control is unclear,  but the decision to scrap the notion […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Population control, Population control, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Dave Duffield, Julie Levy, Kate Hurley, Maddie's Fund, Merritt Clifton, Richard Avanzino

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