Mission: Possible! The little flyer with the bum wing takes to the sky
This and other news for the week ending April 11, 2025
In other news: No Kill Sheltering Spring 2025. The FDA fails to protect pets from contaminated food. States consider the “best interest of the animal.” Communities are looking for someone to run or help run their animal shelters. Suspension of “pit bull” adoptions overturned. A lonely mountain lion’s everlasting legacy.
These are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:
No Kill Sheltering Spring 2025
The No Kill Advocacy Center published its Spring 2025 issue of No Kill Sheltering. It is also available to patron-level donors of my Substack page as a thank you.
The current issue covers:
The latest guidance for running a humane shelter;
A look back at animal sheltering in 2024 and what is in store for 2025;
How shelters suppress adoptions and what to do about it;
Protecting cats from bird flu and media sensationalism;
Correcting a revisionist history of No Kill success;
And more.
The FDA fails to protect pets from contaminated food