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Pet Store Puppies Damaged By Puppy Mill Practices   Best Friends Animal Society Back in 2008, Best Friends launched our puppy mill initiatives after identifying puppy mills as one of the primary sources of animals entering our nation’s shelters. A revealing Best...

May 14, 2013 0

Important Legislation In The Lone Star State   Best Friends Animal Society For some time now, Best Friends has been working with a variety of stakeholders in Texas to develop meaningful legislation to help reduce the high rate of shelter killing in the state. In Texas,...

May 6, 2013 0

Counting In Florida   Best Friends Animal Society No, we’re not referring to the counting of ballots, chads, hanging chads or any rare species of chad! We’re talking shelter animals. Florida recently passed a new law requiring all animal...

May 3, 2013 0

NBC Report Exposes AKC   Best Friends Animal Society The battle to expose and shut down shoddy, large commercial breeding operations received a great piece of national exposure today when NBC Television’s “Today Show” ran a story about how the...

May 2, 2013 0

Super Season   Best Friends Animal Society Best Friends New York–area Super Adoption wrapped up a three-day, feel-good celebration of homeless pets going to loving new homes yesterday afternoon with 360 pets out the door and dozens of...

Apr 30, 2013 0

Volunteers: Where Would We Be Without Them?   Best Friends Animal Society This is National Volunteer Week, and we often hear it said that volunteers are the lifeblood of any effective animal organization. That seems to be a self-evident truth. Without volunteers, our work...

Apr 25, 2013 0

Jaunty Jimmy   Best Friends Animal Society We had to say goodbye to our little border collie mix, Jimmy, yesterday afternoon. He was getting on to about 15 years and had compound terminal issues. Jimmy was perfectly ordinary and wonderfully...

Apr 22, 2013 0

San Antonio: Courage, Creativity And A Community Commitment To No-Kill   Best Friends Animal Society San Antonio Animal Care Services (ACS) achieved an 83% live release rate (LRR) in March of 2013. Not only that, but for the first three months of calendar year 2013, ACS is averaging an LRR of over...

Apr 16, 2013 0

Francis Battista Introduces A Special Guest Blog From Kathleen Aubry   Best Friends Animal Society As you may have noticed, this page does not feature guest bloggers. However, on this occasion, I am pleased to give my slot to Kate Aubry. Why? Because in the past, we have featured posts about a...

Apr 9, 2013 0

Our Most Inspiring Speech Yet!   Best Friends Animal Society Every year in the fall, Best Friends hosts one of the largest animal welfare conferences in the country, the No More Homeless Pets National Conference. Taking the show on the road to the East...

Apr 4, 2013 0

Audubon Disappoints: Position Reversal   Best Friends Animal Society In the digital world we live in today, gathering together for a cause we believe in is easier than ever before. Thousands can sign on immediately and say how they feel about a particular issue....

Mar 29, 2013 0

Florida Community Cat Act Clears First Hurdle In Style   Best Friends Animal Society The Florida State House of Representatives Agriculture and Community Affairs Subcommittee recently passed the Florida Community Cat Act (Florida House Bill 1121) out of committee by a unanimous 14-0...

Mar 27, 2013 0

Five Reasons Not To Buy A Bunny For Easter   Best Friends Animal Society In the name of all the rabbits you have ever loved or admired, including Bugs, Peter, Br’er and Roger, not to mention Thumper and the Energizer Bunny, please think twice before getting or giving a...

Mar 25, 2013 0

More Killing Is Never The Answer   Best Friends Animal Society In my previous blog, I commented on an op-ed piece by Audubon Magazine contributor Ted Williams in the Orlando Sentinel in which Mr. Williams advocates poisoning free-roaming cats and names a...

Mar 20, 2013 0

Orlando Sentinel Publishes Instructions On How To Kill A Cat   Best Friends Animal Society Wanna know how to mercilessly kill a cat? Don’t worry about having to search the weirdo part of the Internet. The weirdos are now writing opinion pieces for the Orlando Sentinel! This week,...

Mar 16, 2013 0

Vicktory Dog Reunion   Best Friends Animal Society As most of the followers of our blog know, in 2008 Best Friends Animal Society took in 22 dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels. Something very special took place yesterday, March 11,...

Mar 13, 2013 0

The Michael Vick Dogs   Best Friends Animal Society Just when you thought it was safe to go back to puppy class at your neighborhood pet store, photos surfaced of Michael Vick with his recently acquired Malinois, Angel, at dog training class at a New...

Mar 9, 2013 0

Single And Loving It!   Best Friends Animal Society The true north for Best Friends Animal Society, our core guiding principle, is that we can save them all — that all lives are worth saving and all lives have intrinsic value. Whether it be Michael...

Mar 7, 2013 0

Maryland Anti–pit Bull Ruling Could Be Overturned   Best Friends Animal Society A new bill goes to the Maryland Senate as SB 160, and, if passed, will advance public safety and save the lives of thousands of well-behaved pit bulls. SB 160 and the House companion bill, HB 78,...

Feb 23, 2013 0

Power Of Partnership   Best Friends Animal Society In 2011, only 58% of shelter pets were leaving the West Valley City (WVC) shelter alive. In June of 2012, WVC, the largest municipality in the Salt Lake Valley, committed to a no-kill goal and...

Feb 22, 2013 0