Jacki Moss and Diane Finley believe that every “shelter,” no matter how bad it may be, can be No Kill. They also believe that “shelters” can be forced to become No Kill, even if the leadership there doesn’t care enough to want it. And they believe that with constant, relentless pressure and organized strategies, in some shelters it can be done in six months (but tell you to persist no matter how long it takes).…
A new study looked at the killing of dingoes as a method of protecting people and found that it doesn’t work. In fact, it found that it makes things worse. Killing wild dogs led “to social instability and diminished territorial integrity in the dingo population, resulting in both increased human-dingo and conspecific conflict, heightened stress, elevated breeding rates and fatal dispersal of poorly socialised juveniles into neighbouring pack territories.” The study’s author suggests that “kindness”…
“Political Abuse, Corruption, Nepotism and Cronyism” costing animals their lives. Years ago, staff at the Town of Hempstead, NY, pound filmed themselves terrorizing a cat. As lazy, inept and cruel animal control officers stand around laughing, making obscene gestures, and goofing off, a very frightened cat is brought into the room and hung from the neck with a catchpole. While he struggles to escape, the “professionals” in the Town sadistically chant “kill the kitty, kill…
How do you celebrate progress when animals are still being harmed by the very same institutions?
A situation that calls for circumspection, rather than cavalierness, and human ingenuity rather than human violence.
PETA has once again shown its true colors, this time aligning itself with a hunting organization in order to promote the round up and killing of community cats.