4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Did you know that every year, of the 8 million dogs and cats that enter animal shelters, 3 million of these healthy and treatable pets are euthanized? Luckily, The Shelter Pet Project hopes to change this! Here is one of the great PSAs that The Shelter Pet Project has out. It is such a sad statistic.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
Here is an article in the Seattle Times about the lesser known small animal area at the Seattle Animal Shelter. Tags: seattle animal shelter. We used to volunteer for that program.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 15, 2010
While many animal shelters already struggle on a day-to-day basis to care for the millions of unwanted animals that are dropped at their door, the numbers have grown to an almost unmanageable degree over the last few years. So what does this mean for animal shelters that are already overflowing? Tags: guest post.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
Nathan Winograd has an interesting piece in the Examiner about the recent HSUS Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. It's not that he's unappreciative of people that work with animals, but rather the state of many of the shelters that are being appreciated. Tags: animal shelters. You can read about his background here.
Critter News
MARCH 26, 2009
I thought it was an urban myth that animal shelters would actually turn over unwanted animals to laboratories for research, but apparently not. The animal shelter committee voted to end the contract, but it goes before the County commissioners in April. In return, the company can use some of the unwanted dogs for animal research.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
After all the brewhaha about improving the conditions at the King County animal shelters in Washington State (where we live), I'm still seeing this kind of stuff. Tags: animal shelter management seattle State of Washington King county. When is King County going to clean up its act?
Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. From the AP.
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