Why Are There So Many Dogs Dying in Southern Shelters?
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Why Are There So Many Dogs Dying in Southern Shelters?

Why are there so many dogs dying in our southern shelters? This is the question that has been posed to me again and again in podcast interviews, on social media, in emails, and quite often, in person. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about that question and I don’t necessarily have a concise answer,…

Tiny Municipal Shelter Outside Nashville Has Only One Employee

Tiny Municipal Shelter Outside Nashville Has Only One Employee

In Robertson County, Tennessee, just outside Nashville, there are actually three municipal shelters. In addition to the Robertson shelter written about in the previous post, we also stopped at a tiny shelter ten minutes away— Greenbrier Animal Control. This small shelter has ten kennels and was currently housing 12 dogs. Shelbie is the only ACO…

Partnering with Animal Control to Save Lives
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Partnering with Animal Control to Save Lives

It took some doing, but we finally found the Forrest City Area Humane Society which partners with Forrest City Animal Control to save animals. The blue cement building was a mile down a narrow unmarked road that ran beside the train tracks and eventually petered out into a dirt/sand road before arriving at the shelter…

Heading Into the New Year with Hope for Our Shelters
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Heading Into the New Year with Hope for Our Shelters

Who Will Let the Dogs Out started after Nancy and I began visiting southern shelters to learn where all the dogs were coming from and why. We didn’t know how to fix the problem, but we knew we wanted to help. So we used the only skills we had – writing and photography. As we…

New River Humane Society Moves Out But Will Rescue On
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New River Humane Society Moves Out But Will Rescue On

County shelters come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and models, but most boil down to two basic options. A county shelter run by county employees or a county shelter that contracts a nonprofit to run their shelter. And here a little sidebar: Not all counties have public shelters. Until they do (or join…