Last week, an ACO from Charlotte-Mecklenburg AC & C took a cat on a local morning news show to promote an offsite adoption event. This exchange between the news anchor and ACO Conner caught my attention: Anna Kooiman: "Do you guys have a pretty big surge of cats in the shelter at the moment?" Julia … Continue reading Char-Meck: Cats, Scarce; Chokepoles, Plentiful
Action Alert: Memphis – Attend Monthly Meetings and Write Your Public Servants
Reader Ethel encourages all area residents to attend the monthly Memphis Animal Services Advisory Board meetings: All meetings are held on Wednesday evenings at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library located at 3030 Poplar Avenue, 38111 in meeting room A from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13. … Continue reading Action Alert: Memphis – Attend Monthly Meetings and Write Your Public Servants
Dog Adoptions Resume at MAS, Needed Changes Still Lacking
The ABC affiliate in Memphis reports that as of Friday afternoon, the Memphis Animal Services shelter had 2 dogs available for adoption. Which seems to be roughly the same number of cats visible on the shelter webcams this weekend: Regarding the recent canine distemper outbreak, the latest kill number is apparently 90: [Shelter director Matthew] … Continue reading Dog Adoptions Resume at MAS, Needed Changes Still Lacking
Shelter Pet of the Day
Charlie, submitted by reader Alyssa who writes: I love my local dog shelter (dog law enforcement), and not many people can say that. In a confession direct from the dog warden, the shelter only had to euthanize 2% of the dogs taken in in 2010, and of those none were for lack of "space" but … Continue reading Shelter Pet of the Day
Memphis – You’re Breaking My Heart
Memphis, please - stop the killing.
Open Thread
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Chesterfield Co Shelter’s Drug Records Indicate Teeny Pets
Where SLED may be in this on-again/off-again investigation remains a mystery but thank goodness Fox Charlotte is on the case. They obtained drug records from the shelter for the past year and compared those records to the number of pets killed: In May, $44 worth of Euthasol, a lethal injection drug was purchased from Webster … Continue reading Chesterfield Co Shelter’s Drug Records Indicate Teeny Pets
Latest on Chesterfield Co Dog Shooting Investigation
Although it had been widely reported that SLED has been on the case for weeks, this story popped up tonight: The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the shooting deaths of six dogs because South Carolina's attorney general doesn't think Chesterfield County's internal investigation went far enough. The dogs were found almost a month ago … Continue reading Latest on Chesterfield Co Dog Shooting Investigation
Snapshots from MAS
Readers send in screengrabs from the webcams at Memphis Animal Services. A precious few are being saved from MAS by rescuers. Some are choosing to focus only on those lucky few and to ignore the needless killing of so many. Let these photos stand as a reminder that there are people who know and care … Continue reading Snapshots from MAS
One Rescuer’s Story from Memphis
Memphis rescuer Villy Ellinger contacted Memphis Animal Shelter last week about the red point Siamese pictured above, ID 224095. The cat had been picked up as a stray on 3/22/2011 and was made available for adoption on Saturday, 3/26/2011. The shelter was closed on Sunday (3/27) and Monday (3/28). From Ms. Ellinger: On Saturday I … Continue reading One Rescuer’s Story from Memphis
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