Remembering national trauma Today, September 11, 2019, marks the eighteenth anniversary of the national trauma the U.S. experienced as result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The aftermath of those attacks brought global traumas including ongoing warfare in much of the Middle East, Central Asia, […]
Retired: Bob Rohde personified “your Dumb Friends” for 45 years
Worked his way to the top from cleaning cages DENVER, Colorado––Possibly the longest serving executive ever of a humane society that he did not himself found, Robert “Bob” Rohde, 68, on February 9, 2018 turned over the presidency of the Denver Dumb Friends League to Apryl Steele, DVM, after nearly 45 years with the organization […]
Adoption transport, Crazy Cat Ladies, & pyramid schemes
by Merritt Clifton HOUSTON, DENVER––Are adoption transport and feral cat translocation truly intelligent free-market approaches to reducing shelter killing, or just the 21st century versions of taking unwanted animals to Crazy Cat Lady? In India, cities without federally subsidized Animal Birth Control programs often covertly hire truckers to collect street dogs and illegally dump them […]
Humane success makes market for mixed-breed pups
TACOMA–Why did the Humane Society of Tacoma & Pierce County fire one 15-year employee on May 25, 2006, and suspend another without pay for three days, for mistakenly euthanizing five Labrador-mix puppies? Why did Joseph P. “Jo Jo the Dog Man” O’Neill, 70, die alone of a heart attack on June 22, 2005 aboard a train in Poland, after 40-odd years […]