Maddie’s Fund® has given the Berkeley Alliance for Homeless Animals Coalition (BAHAC) a $474,000  Maddie’s®Lifesaving Award* for achieving and maintaining an adoption guarantee for healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont, California. The...

  The first step to building a No Kill community is rebuilding your relationship with the community. And that is done by showing them that you are true to your mission. Two years ago, in January 2007, as part of a top-down assessment of the agency, I did a series of Town Hall-type meetings and surveys...

The response to the statement on dogs seized as a part of dog fighting cases released by HSUS and Best Friends has been overwhelming positive yet cautious. While some have long ago written off the HSUS as “non-savable” others have continued to hold out hope that HSUS will use its wealth,...

Yesterday afternoon, just before they released the new agreement with HSUS on the issue of seized Pit Bulls, I spoke on the telephone with Best Friends. In trying to be fair to Best Friends and what they hoped to accomplish, I agreed to remove my prior posts on the issue and to judge the agreement on...

It didn’t surprise us to hear that the first news coming out of the meeting of stakeholders involved with pit bulls and pit bull advocacy was not all that great. Because it was not unexpected, it was disappointing but not crushing. What does surprise us though is news today that although representatives...

This is the week of the HSUS Expo where two significant events are taking place.  The first is a day-long certificate course presented by Maddie’s Fund with speakers like No Kill shelter directors Bonney Brown and Susanne Kogut.   Although this is the first time Maddie’s Fund has had an...