2008 UCD Koret Shelter Medicine Program’s director, Dr. Kate Hurley, spoke with YCAS volunteers about animal sheltering and the distressing need to euthanize animals when they’d been at the shelter too long. 2010 Small group of animal welfare advocates including Lori...
See new $20 million Fresno Animal Center that promises to keep families and pets together Read more about the efforts in Fresno to better care for our pets: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article262965348.html Fresno City Council shares their thoughts on this...
Positive Impact Upwards of $157 Million, Who? What? Where? How? It’s tough these days making the case to build a new animal shelter. Recent years have been rough not only on taxpayers, but also on county government and the cities of Yolo County. Roads need paving,...
A Not So Transparent Road Animal shelters are supposed to be safe temporary havens for companion animals, livestock and small pets. But, when leadership plays the victim card with the public, speaks in circular language, or fails to comply with the law, that safe...
There was a time when “state-of-the-art” for “dog pounds” meant rounding up dogs in the streets and drowning them in the Hudson River. Thankfully, those days are long gone. We don’t call them “dog pounds” anymore, and “state-of-the-art” has a totally different meaning...
By Janis Rosenberg – President of Unleashing the Possibilities, Inc. Very few people take the time to understand what really goes on behind the doors of their local animal shelter, let alone question the actions of it. Most folks just assume that all is well, and that...
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