What affects us affects cats
A photograph of a queue of people outside a Texas animal shelter, BARC, published on Facebook went viral. On 27th June 2017, an organisation, Special Needs Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation (SNARR), said that it showed a line of people surrendering their pets and that the all animals would be put down. The description was …
Several shelter volunteers at the Gwinnett County Animal Shelter complained or expressed concerns about how it was run. One of those persons was an employee, Delana Funderburk. She, amongst others, made allegations that the shelter management were manipulating euthanasia rates and fudging statistics. What she claims is that animals were being euthanised because they …
I don’t know what the other states are, I am sorry to say. However, it is sad to read that there are still four states with operational gas chambers in which they kill shelter animals. I had thought, naïvely, that all of them had been decommissioned and thrown away but apparently not. It is …
A cattery coordinator, Shannon Phillips (see above – the photo is by her), tells us what it is like for her to euthanize and make decisions about euthanizing cats and dogs on a daily basis. She admits that she has euthanized hundreds of cats and dogs. Having read her article I have the feeling …
This is a rather tortuous saga but it can be simplified. The bottom line is that the Gloucester County Animal Shelter, NJ were allegedly in violation of a local law which requires that cats taken into their shelter must be held for seven days before euthanasia and it does not make any difference if …
There is a campaign on Facebook to stop the mass murders at New York City’s animal shelters. The campaign is very vigorous and bold. I like that. Their Facebook webpage is hosted by Christina Malchow. I presume that it is her who is bold and courageous in passionately pleading with people to “effect change …
BARC is Houston’s Animal Shelter and Adoption Facility. They have just opened a brand new facility and low and behold at about the same time (July 31st) someone turns up with 60 cats to abandon to the shelter. Perhaps the timing was deliberate. BARC think that the number is a record. I hope they …
Place: MOBILE, Ala., USA. This is another one of those shelter killings in breach of their own rules of when to euthanise cats. They happen quite a lot; too often sadly. This is a young cat, Porkchop, who escaped his home and was, unfortunately as it happens, picked up by a neighbour, Matthew Sneddon, …
