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 […]
No-kill pioneer Richard Avanzino to retire after dispensing $153 million in Maddie’s Fund grants
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 […]
Maddie’s Fund scraps model shelter plan
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 […]