I’ve been dreading the thought of writing this column as I don’t want to accept that it’s time to say, “goodbye”. Thank God for deadlines or I would never get around to it. Halloween was my last day at Paws Humane Society. It was five years since I began as interim...

Best Friends Animal Society, based in Kanab, Utah is a mover and shaker in the animal welfare world. Just a couple of years ago they came out with an incredibly bold vision to achieve a no-kill nation by the end of 2025. It’s a moonshot at which some may scoff....

Hurricane season hit early this year. In fact, we got our first call in mid-July, coincidentally the same day we had set a meeting to review our hurricane response protocol to ensure that it was up-to-date. Tropical Storm Barry was threatening to swamp Plaquemines...

You have, no doubt, read about animal hoarders and puppy mills, discovered and then broken up by law enforcement. Too many of these cases occur right here in West Georgia. Just a few short months ago 700 dogs and puppies were seized from a puppy mill in Berrien...

Dogs are meant to run and play with each other. They are resolutely social animals yet we house them separately in animal shelters all across America, supposedly to keep them safe.  We know they thrive in groups, but we also know that big, powerful dogs, most of what...