A Michael Broad Blog
These are the thoughts of Shannon Phillips. She is an animal shelter worker. Her job title is “Cattery Coordinator”. She has responsibilities and she is authorised and certified to euthanize animals. Making animal euthanasia more meaningful Euthanizing shelter animals is probably the most stressful aspect of shelter work. The first time Shannon did it, …
This is such a sweet photograph. Such tenderness. It’s lovely to see. Staff at BARCS – Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter – have a policy of cuddling cats and dogs when they wake up after an operation requiring a general anesthetic. They want their patients to feel loved and as relaxed as possible …
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, …
by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Good morning readers…..When I began doing research on those involved in animal euthanasia, whether at the hands of a shelter worker, to those of us simply reading the descriptions of what took place, something went off in my head. I know it’s horrible for those of us who read about …
