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...
Tagged: euthanasia
Volunteer ‘steals’ well-behaved shelter animal to save his life as he was listed to be ‘euthanized’
NEWS AND OPINION. This is an opinion piece based upon a good news story from the viewpoint of an animal advocate. In fact, perhaps from the viewpoint of anybody who likes to see fair...
Animal lovers protest in front of a Las Vegas shelter run by the Animal Foundation
NEWS AND OPINION: This is about a dog but it could equally be about a cat. The same issue of rescue animal character assessment by shelter staff presents itself all the time. The picture...
Stress should not be a death sentence for shelter animals. Discuss.
The words of the title come from Nathan Winograd, America’s leading expert on animal shelters and one of the country’s leading animal advocates. He is referring to new legislation for New York State that...
NY Governor Kathy Hochul agrees that shelter animals ASSESSED as suffering mentally can be killed
Nathan Winograd, a US attorney and major animal welfare advocate, has written an open letter on Facebook to New York State’s governor, Kathleen Hochul, urging her to veto a proposed bill (S6870/A6246) in the...
New York State: ‘mental suffering’ of shelter animal enough to euthanise ‘it’
New York State – News and comment: A controversial, proposed state law (bill) has been introduced by Assemblywoman Amie Paulin. It is legislation which would allow animal shelters to euthanise animals in their care...
Euthanizing a companion animal due to behavioral problems. Are there alternatives?
Problematic behavioral problems in companion animals are one of the most frustrating and emotionally draining challenges for their owners. Resolving these problems can often be extremely difficult; especially for animals who are hard to...
Kharkiv Zoo’s big cats and bears will be euthanised before Russian shelling gets them
NEWS AND COMMENT – KHARKIV, UKRAINE: The zookeepers at Kharkiv Zoo are making plans to euthanize the big cats and bears in case Russian shelling allows them to escape into what’s left of the...
Myrtle Beach animal shelter imported unregulated drug from China to treat FIP
The Grand Strand Humane Society is an open admission animal shelter which takes in animals from Myrtle Beach, a city on the east coast of the USA. News media (Myrtle Beach SC News) has...
45% reduction in cat euthanasia in Humane Canada shelters over 27 years
HUMANE CANADA, the Federation of SPCAs and Humane Societies, has provided us with a very useful chart. It tells us that with respect to cats at their shelters there has been a 45% reduction...
Pets and people are becoming more equal on the issue of euthanasia
It’s ironic but on the issue of managed dying (euthanasia) pets and people are becoming more equal. I have always felt that the status of animals needs to elevated in the interests of their...
154 purebred cats smuggled from China to Taiwan by sea have been put down
NEWS AND COMMENT – TAIWAN: I wrote about this earlier. It concerns a smuggling operation when purebred cats of great value are smuggled from mainland China to Taiwan using the sea route. The smugglers...
Substantial drop in shelter animal euthanasia in the USA
Best Friends Animal Society reported a 44.5% drop between 2019 and 2020 of euthanized shelter cats and dogs from 625,000 to 347,000.
Rise in individual companion animal cremations
COMMENT: In the UK, more Britons are deciding on individual cat and dog cremations according to the Association of Private Pet Cemeteries and Crematoria. They say that there was a 10-15 percent increase last...
New Zealand: man who trapped and drowned eight cats thought he was doing the right thing
ANALYSIS AND NEWS – WARNING: this content may upset some people so please don’t read on if it does. I’m writing about it because it does illustrate how a nation’s culture with respect to...
Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.
