A Michael Broad Blog
News of the inexcusable actions by the Harnett County Animal Shelter is making the rounds on social media today on how a recent panleuk (feline panleukopenia also called: feline parvovirus, aka ‘parvo’) outbreak was handled by the Lillington, North Carolina facility. Animal advocate Susan Shaddock explained it best in a statement she wrote up …
In the USA, the Board of County Commissioners is a group of elected officials who administer the county government in some of the states. There are basically the local government of a county in the USA. They have what I would describe as open days when the public can have their say directly to …
Heart sticking, also called a “heart shot” and more scientifically, an “intercardiac injection” is a way of killing an animal at a US shelter. I have no idea how commonplace it is. It is probably fairly rare. I hope so because it is cruel and painful. The idea is to inject pentobarbital sodium directly into …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Cecilia Jess There’s a no-kill shelter problem I’ve just been made aware of and I’d like to share it with the readers here. I’m a big advocate of no-kill shelters. Mainly because they’re willing to give a cat time to be adopted out without the threat of euthanasia for lack …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Jasper and Sammy were rescued from death row Bad animal shelters can be found all over the country. From my guess, this isn’t just in the U.S., but worldwide. The idea for this article came from reading of some of the horrors my rescue friends were discussing on my website …
