by Amanda Greever | Jun 19, 2020 | Animal Welfare
It’s a been a rough few months, hasn’t it? Our lives have been uprooted, and we’re all trying to adjust to the new normal. The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted industries, taken lives and left a permanent impact on society. The pandemic — and a certain Netflix show...
by Joel Davis | May 20, 2020 | Animal Welfare
There are still silver linings to be found in the darkest times. During the coronavirus pandemic, people are still doing good. For example, with more people working from home than ever before, there has been a surprising uptick in pet adoptions. Animal welfare...
by Grayson Shockley | May 8, 2020 | Animal Welfare
A hard truth in life is that often from tragedy springs a valuable lesson. The novel coronavirus leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic is widely accepted to be zoonotic in nature, meaning it made the leap from animal to human. While these leaps, known as “spillover...
by Matthew Everett | Apr 6, 2020 | Animal Welfare
Mixed messages Americans have a mixed relationship with animals. Most U.S. households include a dog or cat, and we spend record amounts of money on them. But more than 7 million companion animals end up in shelters every year – and the main reason is that they’ve been...
by Matthew Everett | Apr 6, 2020 | Animal Welfare
Most of us love the animals we’re close to. We take steps to ensure their comfort and safety and consider them members of our families. But animal welfare means a lot more than just caring for the companion animals we share our homes with. The scale of suffering and...
by Heather Ripley | Mar 14, 2020 | Animal Welfare
Even the best managed animal welfare nonprofit foundations can find themselves in a PR crisis sometimes. An executive director could fail to uphold the ethical values that supporters expect, a volunteer could find themselves in hot water on social media, or something...
