A Michael Broad Blog
By Sandra When I began living as a low income senior, I decided that it wasn’t practical to get another cat. The expense of regular and unexpected vet care, and the fact that most landlords don’t allow pets, were my deciding factors. That was before a young feral cat and her mother touched my …
Following a fine (see details below) by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Veterinary Services (“the Services”) the director of Columbus County Animal Control, Rossie Hayes (a man, incidentally) will retire in September 2015. Hayes’s tenure as director appears to have been unhappy and unsuccessful. For instance, in December 2013 Whiteville Daily …
This is novel. To surrender a cat to a shelter in Los Angeles because he has become too big to get into his litter box is either an act of madness or an act of gross negligence and irresponsible cat caretaking. I hope I’m not being too harsh but that is the way it …
It is called a “correct(ional) approach to animal sheltering”. I like that. This is an animal shelter within the medium security Dixon Correctional Institute, run by a prison warden and staffed by some of the prisoners. It has been running since 2010. I like the term: “correctional institute” but I wonder how much correcting …
We know that some shelters euthanise many more cats than other shelters even when they are in roughly the same place operating under similar circumstances. The difference can come down to management methods and attitudes. Of course, there are often other pressures and barriers in achieving true-no kill status but management is probably the …
I’m sure those of you who follow PoC articles on a daily basis recall the story of Midnight, a black cat who became ill back in August. When Midnight’s owner, Laurel Queen-Havens, of Venice Island, Florida turned to St. Francis Animal Rescue – a volunteer run organization that cares for lifetime resident cats, adoptable …
News broke this past week from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Section, where an announcement was made that carbon monoxide gassing will no longer be an accepted form of euthanasia in NC animal shelters effective February 15th 2015. Much of this was covered in the 2013 AVMA Euthanasia Guidelines. The six …
This is going to be an in-depth article, but I’ll try to condense it as much as possible. Today I’d like to talk about Section 1983 as it pertains to volunteers, staff, fosters and rescues who attempt to speak out against shelter cruelty, only to lose their job in the process. There is an …
