One county in Kentucky is getting positive press this week for becoming the first No Kill county in the state. This Saturday Shelby County celebrated the first full year of No Kill meaning they have saved every animal that could be treated or rehabilitated. What’s their key to success? Hard work...

To my Friends and Readers, I am honored and humbled to share with you the news that I have been offered and accepted the position of the CEO of the Pennsylvania SPCA. It gives me a feeling of incredible hope for the future that the Board of Directors has taken the bold step to hire someone who has been...

The idea sounded like a good one. In an effort to make some sense of the slaughter of pit bull after pit bull in shelters across the country and develop pit bull adoption programs where there were none, Breed Ambassador programs were created to showcase the best of the best. Breed Ambassadors would shatter...

A deep thank you to all who made the No Kill Conference in Washington DC a tremendous success. We had representatives from 37 states, the District of Columbia, and six countries (the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, France, and Thailand). Thank you to the attendees, to the speakers, to the sponsors,...

Almost a year ago I started The No Kill Nation website in the hopes that it could become a voice and a resource for No Kill advocates from across the country and the world. To get the site going we started by asking people to contribute answers to the question: What is No Kill? Although the answer seems...

As No Kill proponents, we ask ourselves over and over again: why such resistance from the shelter management establishment both in public animal control agencies and in nonprofit humane societies and SPCAs? Fifteen years after Richard Avanzino pioneered the elements of the No Kill Equation, what stops...