Our first shelter visit in Georgia was at Murray County, Georgia Animal Shelter. It was a gorgeous day in North Georgia, and when we arrived, Julie (director/ACO) and Torie (ACO) were outside with Reece, a gentle and gorgeous German Shepherd.…
I’m tired of the No-kill debate. Yes, the tenets are great, and yes, they save lives. And yes, they have brought us sooooo far. But fixating on these words and the random 90% threshold for No-kill, is not moving us…
The challenges of saving (or not saving) dogs at Memphis Animal Services Shelter are vast. MAS is struggling for multiple reasons and is euthanizing for space every week. In fact, they euthanized dogs while we were visiting them in February…
Every time we travel to Tennessee, we have the pleasure of staying with Laura Prechel, who runs CASA Transport which moves thousands of animals out of Tennessee to shelters and rescues in the north every year. With their CASA Clinic,…
Our first stop on our March 2025 shelter tour was the Danville Area Humane Society Virginia. About an hour from Greensboro, North Carolina, Danville is a large, open-intake shelter on the southside of Virginia in the hometown of my alma…
Robertson County KY Animal Shelter is a tiny municipal shelter located in the tiny rural town of Mt Olivet, Kentucky. We visited the shelter in the fall of 2024. It’s a special place where dogs are saved by remarkable people…
John has been the shelter director and ACO for Pendleton County (KY) Animal Shelter for seven and a half years. When he retired after 22 years as a Firefighter/paramedic, his wife Bonnie told him he needed to find something to…
Mercer County Animal Control Center Kentucky was full when we visited (like every other shelter we’ve visited in the last year), but only a handful of those dogs are adoptable. That’s because the shelter took in thirty dogs seized in…
Our first stop in Kentucky was at Leslie County Animal Shelter. Like many municipal shelters, it was located right next to the waste transfer station and the jail. The building is a simple concrete one that houses the staff, medical…
Something magical happened when we visited STAR – Saving the Animals of Rowan in Rowan County, Kentucky, close to the Ohio border. It’s only happened on one other of the 150+ shelter visits we’ve made. (And maybe this won’t seem…