Mel A works at an animal shelter. She does not tell us where but I think it’s in America. I would like to use all of her words but I can’t because there would be a violation of copyright. But they are very powerful. I …
This is about the attitude of shelter staff and therefore, going one step back, it is about how shelter managers select and hire shelter staff which in turn depends on the quality of the manager. The “voice of America’s displaced pets and the conscience of …
NEWS AND COMMENT-LOS ANGELES, USA: This story is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, the Los Angeles Times reports that a senior Animal Services staffer whose job it is to oversee the city’s dog walking program said that he was frightened of large dogs but not …
Nathan Winograd, described by The Bark as “The voice of America’s displaced pets and the conscience of the animal sheltering industry”, tells me in a newsletter via email that a couple of professors of race and gender identity claim that a study they conducted demonstrates …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I am pleased to report that Poland supplied enough food and essentials to the Shelter Friend animal shelter near Dnipro, to keep them going for a couple of months. The owner and founder of the shelter, Maryna Bolokhovets, who said that she …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues as the war grinds on into a war of attrition although recently Putin has realised that he can’t win it and therefore is scaling back. But for the last two weeks at least, the Russian army …
There is a headline which states that a dog was dumped at an animal shelter in the US after the owner complained that he was gay. I mean the dog not the person 😎! And the owners decided that their dog, Fezco, was gay because …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: A young woman whose name is Anastasila Yalanskaya has been shot dead by a Russian death squad while in her car delivering dog food to a local shelter. Russian death squads are roaming around Ukraine targeting civilians in order to sow fear …
I’ve seen this happen with cats. Extremely rarely an individual walks into an animal shelter and expressly picks out the most unpopular, sickest, unadoptable, oldest, undesirable animal in the shelter and adopt him or her. It’s almost the exact opposite what nearly everybody else does. …
