Showing 33 posts from February 2009
Over the weekend I got an email from one of the regular readers of this blog with a little update on what was going on in her community in Ohio. Not long ago, her community had a policy in place...
It's been an interesting week. Kansas City, MO's animal shelter is soon going to be privatized. The UK continues it's struggles with its nation-wide breed bans. Omaha has also been struggling with their breed specific ordinance. It's sort of been...
Yesterday, the city council of Kansas City approved an ordinance that will privatize the city's animal shelter beginning March 1st. At that time, the shelter will be run by Veterinary Management Corporation (which is run by 74 year old Dr....
For the better part of the last 15 years, the UK has been pointed to by people who support breed bans as a model that should be followed. They say, see, look, the UK did it -- as if that...
I'm not sure how we got here. But we need to change it...quickly. At some point, in this country, we decided that we thought it was possible to punish people into being responsible dog owners. We can't. And the idea...
