Bowie’s law AB 595 California is an animal life saver
Bowie’s law is a significant advance in the humane treatment of animals in California according to Nathan Winograd. And it is a model for the rest of America. What is it? According to the...
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Let’s Adopt! Global, an animal rescue organization, courting controversy (2022)
Let’s Adopt! Global (LAG) is an animal rescue organization founded in Turkey in 2008 by Viktor Larkhill and Fulya Ulusoy. Since 2011 it has had headquarters in Massachusetts, USA. It is a non-profit animal rescue....
Colorado law designed to ensure high standard, ‘socially conscious’ animal shelters
I like this law which is currently going through the Colorado legislature. Not everyone does who is involved in debating it but it appeals to me. I particularly like the concept of setting standards...
Founder and head of animal rescue accused of stealing at least $110,000 from donations
This is a sad story because Dawn Cardinal is the founder and president of Destiny’s Road Animal Rescue, Palmer, Massachusetts, USA. She is very successful at raising money. She raised more than $650,000 through...
The First Amendment and Animal Shelters
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution as enacted by the federal statute 1983 (42 USC 1983) grants irrevocable rights of freedom of speech to both shelter volunteers working at animal shelters and...
Former Carteret County, NC shelter director allegedly spent more than $67,000 for personal items
Update: WITN.com reported that authorities have identified the former Carteret County Humane Society director as Candace Christopherson. According to a report issued by North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood, an N.C. animal shelter director spent more...
Let’s Make Animal Rescue Transparency the Goal for 2016
Instead of compiling my favorite articles for 2015, this year I’d like to discuss the greatest issue myself and many other animal advocates faced this past year: whether or not a rescue is legitimate or...
A Chance to Adopt an American Polydactyl Rescue Cat
If you live in the city of Chillicothe, Missouri, USA or within reasonable driving distance this is a chance to adopt a relatively rare rescue cat. This is a cat with more than the...
Cat and Dog Flood Rescuers Criminally Exploited by Towing Operator
Ninety-nine percent of people in an emergency or under very difficult and exceptional conditions pull together and are on their best behaviour. It’s just a natural human trait. However, some unscrupulous people like to...
How do you determine a cat rescue is legit or a scam?
Your input is required, please, in the answering the question. This is a difficult article to write on for several reasons. I don’t want to appear to be singling out any particular rescue and...
Unfounded Negligence Complaints Plague Cat Rescues
2015 has been a difficult year for cat rescues, where many are doing their best to save the abused, unwanted cats soon to be killed in shelters. The difficulty is taking the form of...
Companion Animal Safety: Preparing for the Next Hurricane Katrina
We are told by Associated Press via the Daily Mail newspaper that significant strides have taken place since Hurricane Katrina took 2,000 human lives and displaced or killed hundreds of thousands of dogs cats...
Mystery and Problems Following Death of “Feral” Cat at NC Shelter
There’s a mystery surrounding the death of a one-year-old cat named Penny who was identified as afraid, who was recently euthanized at a North Carolina shelter. According to “Harnett Hawk” (see comment on this...
Modern day version of how domestic cats spread throughout the world?
This is a cute, loving cat story and to me it brings to mind the spread of the domestic cat many hundreds of years ago from the Middle East, and subsequently other countries, to...
People Unfairly Criticise an Animal Shelter
This is another case where people associated with an animal shelter end up criticising it. It brings to mind an article by Elisa in which she wrote about volunteer gagging contracts and people being...
Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.