Shelter Animals Count finds more dogs euthanized than cats in shelters for first time since the first surveys were done PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania; BRUNSWICK, Maine; ATLANTA, Georgia––A political fight over spay/neuter funding in Pittsburgh, the seven-year-old Feline Fix by Five campaign directed by Esther Mechler from Brunswick, Maine, and the recently released 2023 Annual Analysis from […]
Squishy shelter numbers conceal dropping the ball on spay/neuter
How much real progress toward eradicating cat & dog overpopulation has been lost through a focus on the wrong bottom line? (Gerry Childs, now retired from a long career in sales in many different parts of the U.S., recently celebrated 50 years of volunteering at every stop for animal shelters, spay/neuter projects, and feral cat […]
Waiting for Godot & a good, cheap non-surgical alternative to s/n surgery
Joyce Briggs of ACC&D to leave the cast of “Waiting for Godot” after 18 years PORTLAND, Oregon––Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs president Joyce Briggs might be accused of burying the lead in the May 2, 2023 edition of the ACC&D electronic newsletter. “First, we want to let you know that our 2021-22 Biennial […]
“Rez dogs” kill two people in two days––but likely were not born there
Deaths underscore that Native American lands are no more an appropriate venue for dumping dangerous dogs than “crazy cat ladies” are for dumping kittens SPIRIT LAKE, North Dakota; MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT, Iowa; TELLICO VILLAGE, Tennessee––Native Americans were the victims of two fatal dog attacks in two days on March 27 and March 28, 2022, on […]
Bush vet Eric Jayne, 61, who survived wilds of Alaska, killed by truck
Jayne spent career providing vet care to remote & indigenous communities GRAND FORKS, North Dakota–– “Eric Jayne, DVM, lost his life this morning in a multi-vehicle accident near Grand Forks, North Dakota,” Humane Society of the U.S. senior state director Lisa Kauffman informed friends and colleagues at mid-day on July 2, 2021. “The North […]
Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt
Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019 NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began, animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping, wailing, and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]
Could Zambia contracept wild hippos instead of culling?
Or is hippo overpopulation even really the issue? LUSAKA, Zambia––Why has Zambian tourism minister Charles Banda revived a five-year-old plan to cull up to 250 hippopotamuses per year from South Luangwa National Park, only two years after scrapping it? “The South Luangwa National Park has a population of more than 13,000 hippos but the area […]
“Build s/n services, not more shelters!”
by Margaret Anne Cleek and Ruth Steinberger Editor’s note: Wrote Jeff Young, DVM in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation!, “Large humane societies waste far too much money on housing animals, building expensive facilities…People think they can help by donating to tangible […]
Remembering Montana Spay/Neuter Task force founder Jean Atthowe
“Her techniques have been emulated around the world” JEAN ATTHOWE, believed to be about 90, died on December 19, 2016 at her home in Richland, Washington. Recalled Planned Pethood Plus cofounder Jeff Young, of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, “Jean was the founder of the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force. She was a friend, a teacher, a wonderful […]
How 28 pigeons survived U.S. Senator Inhofe’s shooting party
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness finds survivors two days later ALTUS, Oklahoma––Shot and wounded but not dispatched at a pigeon shoot fundraiser for U.S. Senator James Inhofe on September 9, 2016, 28 banded racing or show pigeons were on Sunday, September 11, 2016 recovered alive by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) personnel from […]