Dogs identified as “pit bulls” are welcome again in Pasco, WA. A proposed federal law would end greyhound racing nationwide. Every dog is adopted from a Georgia shelter. New York “state lawmakers will be given the sacred power to write the ending for each shelter animal.” Chapo spent two years in an animal shelter before being adopted. An analysis of holiday adoptions, fee-waived adoptions, and adoption screening. A look at whether dogs understand human language. And Time magazine names all rescue animals its “2020 Pet of the Year.”
In case you missed it:
- Dogs identified as “pit bulls” are welcome again in Pasco, WA. The City Council unanimously repealed its ban. “All dogs are going to be treated as individuals and only dogs that actually exhibit dangerous behavior will be classified as potentially dangerous.”
- A proposed federal law would end greyhound racing nationwide.
- The sound of silence in a Georgia shelter. “That is the sound of every single dog in our adoption center being adopted!!! This has never happened…”
- “In the next legislative session, [New York] state lawmakers will be given the sacred power to write the ending for each shelter animal.” Will they do the right thing?
- Chapo spent two years in an animal shelter before being adopted. What do we owe the animals who arrive in our shelters looking for a second chance? We owe them safe harbor — no matter how many there are and no matter how long it takes to find them a home.
- An analysis of holiday adoptions, fee-waived adoptions, and adoption screening.
- One article says dogs don’t understand what we are saying; another says dogs can learn to talk. Which is it?
And, finally, Time names all rescue animals its “2020 Pet of the Year.” In the midst of the worst global health crisis since 1918, the American public turned to shelters and rescue groups like never before, with dramatic results. In Texas, for example, Rosenberg Animal Control and Shelter stayed open as an essential service, called upon the community for help, and the community responded with dramatic results, leaving the shelter empty for the first time in its history: “Big dogs are leaving, behavior cases, cats with special needs… No one is being left behind…” When “Adopt, Don’t Shop” hits the mainstream, our movement has arrived.
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