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, […]
“Fix Felines by Five Months” — Spay/USA founder Esther Mechler
Thanks so much for putting out the great article on “The Queen,” by Marvin Mackie, DVM. It seems that a large number of people including too many vets are fuzzy about the topic – I know I was. As you know, for over two decades now we have worked on the creation of a national […]
The Queen (her reproductive cycle may surprise you)
by W. Marvin Mackie, D.V.M. QuickSpay & Consulting San Pedro, California There is a thoughtful new movement designed to get to the next and final phase of ending domestic annual over-production of kittens. The over-production problem is becoming known in animal shelters as the kitten tsunami which occurs each late spring/early summer. The solution is […]
Pet Overpopulation and the 70% Rule
by W. Marvin Mackie, D.V.M. March 2003 In an October 2002 article about the national Animal Birth Control program in India, entitled “Get 70% or flunk”, ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton mentioned the Fibonacci 70% rule. His writing piqued my interest to the point that I asked him for further clarification, and then conducted some research of […]