Fort Lauderdale, Florida - A formal investigation is underway after Local 10 News exposed the likelihood that animal control has been falsifying documents at the County animal shelter in order to hide killing. Documented in the report are multiple instances where Animal Control Director, Thomas Adair, changed animal records in the computer, changing the outcomes to "Owner Requested Euthanasia" when, in fact, owners had not requested euthanasia of their pets. Watch the report

Photo: Missy, a little Sheltie who suffers from pancreatic insufficiency and requires digestive enzymes in order to digest food, appears to have been neglected to death at the Humane Society of Carroll County. A story that we have been following since February took a tragic turn yesterday when Missy's owner was contacted by the Humane Society of Carroll County, asking her permission to euthanize her dog. Missy's owner wrote on Facebook, "Yesterday, I was called to the shelter

Anyone who has followed the No Kill movement for very long likely understands that people who make excuses for killing in animal shelters frequently drag out the tired excuse that there are too many animals and not enough homes for them (i.e. "pet overpopulation"), therefore animal shelters *have to* kill. No one wants to kill, they say. It is a thankless job, but some one *has to* do it, they say. It is a mental construct that allows them to take responsibility for the killi

We recently wrote about Charlie, a dog that was killed at Pueblo Animal Services (PAS), in spite of offers by others to save him. Since then, a lot has happened, some of it leading people to begin questioning the neutrality of their local newspaper, The Pueblo Chieftain. One of the first things that happened was The Pueblo Chieftain came out very publicly supporting the shelter and the killing of Charlie. The paper wrote a heavy-handed and ill-informed editorial in which it s

Anyone who has been involved in the No Kill Movement for any length of time has heard it repeatedly: Regressive animal shelters that refuse to implement the proven life-saving programs of the No Kill Equation accuse No Kill advocates of being "divisive." In a way, it is easy to see how they could feel that way. Most shelters, after all, have had free-rein to do as they will with the animals in their care since animal sheltering first became a thing in the USA. It could be eas