An emotional Facebook post was recently brought to our attention. The Executive Director of the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS), Alison Black Cornelius, posted photos of a large semi-like truck, loaded with dogs. The post indicated that "more than 130 dogs" had been loaded and were on their way "up north last night." If you believe the implied premise of the post, it is all good news. The general belief is that pets "up north" are safe and that there are simply "too

Houston, Texas – animal advocates are scrambling after a sobering email was sent out about a dire situation at Rescue Pets Movement (RPM), a nonprofit organization that has specialized in taking animals from Houston’s high kill, municipal shelter and transporting them to Colorado, a practice that has earned them both praise and criticism. The email read, in part: “We get funding from the City of Houston that covers about 1/3 of our operations—it basically just covers RPM gett

A rescue group in a high kill community recently sent out a plea for donations to pay for gas to drive to Arkansas to bring back a van load of bully breed dogs. This occurred at about the same time a number of bully breed dogs were added to rescue group's local animal control "Rainbow Bridge" album on Facebook. Other shelters local to the rescue group were also begging for help. But, instead of helping locally, the rescue was "saving" dogs that were 1,000 miles away. This was