Via a reader, these shots appear to show a puppy visiting other dogs and piddling in the hallway at Memphis Animal Shelter last night. The shelter is currently closed for adoptions to the public while they manage a distemper outbreak.

While Memphis Animal Services killed all the dogs on the adoption floor and all the puppies at the shelter on Saturday due to the spread of distemper, they are reportedly killing a large number of strays today: Some of them would have been euthanized anyway, either because of aggressive behavior or other illness. But now, … Continue reading Another Mass Dog Killing in Memphis

Readers have been sending in screen grabs from the Memphis shelter's webcams:

There were a couple of pieces on the local news in Memphis last night regarding the mass killing of dogs due to distemper at Memphis Animal Services.  Both contain interviews with Ona Cooper, the local rescuer who tipped me to the story: WREG, Channel 3 WMCTV, Channel 5 From the WMCTV article: Memphis Animal Services … Continue reading Mass Killing at Memphis Shelter Makes Local News

  I have yet to see any media reports on this so I'm reporting the limited information I have at this time and will update as hard news comes in. Ona Cooper, a reader and local rescuer, sent her husband Jon Cooper to the shelter to pull a puppy for her under Meows and BowWows … Continue reading Updated: Mass Dog Killing at Memphis Animal Services

Memphis Animal Services says the reason the webcam shows workers poking sticks into so many cages in the cat ward is that they contain feral cats. I have questions. 1. Why is MAS holding so many feral cats when the shelter has no TNR program in place? Are all these cats simply being poked with … Continue reading Hokey Pokey

After I posted some shots from the dog areas grabbed from the Memphis Animal Services web cam this morning, a  reader sent me some more screen grabs - these are from the cat areas.  The photos appear to show workers poking a stick into each of the cat cages.  There appear to be cats in … Continue reading Memphis Animal Services: Always Funny Until Somebody Loses an Eye

I received this photo, captured via the Memphis Animal Shelter live webcams, from a reader.  The photo is from a Facebook album with several more screengrabs showing the cleaning procedures at the shelter on March 17.  I decided to have a look at the shelter's webcams myself this morning  and pull some shots for the … Continue reading Memphis Animal Shelter: It Gets the Hose Again