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 Best Friends Animal Society
As detailed in previous blog posts, the Hayden Law, California’s exemplary animal shelter reform and access legislation that was passed in 1998, has been in danger of being gutted by Governor...
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May 2, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
I’m sitting in the shade of a tree watching a huge crowd of people at La Brea Tar Pits park circulate among the kennels and booths at Best Friends Super Adoption. This is at least the 26th of...
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May 1, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
True to form, Los Angeles started a trend 12 years ago that’s been catching on from coast to coast ever since.
Best Friends’ first Pet Super Adoption to find homes for hundreds of dogs and cats...
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Apr 27, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
In April 2007, the news about Michael Vick’s involvement in an illegal dog-fighting operation broke. Bad Newz Kennels was named after the town where Vick and his entourage were raised — Newport...
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Apr 26, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
No Kill Los Angeles (NKLA) was officially launched at the House of Blues Tuesday night with a great event hosted by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank.
Live Nation donated the venue for the...
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Apr 20, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
As I sit here in Los Angeles to write this blog post, there is a buzz of activity at the legendary House of Blues on the Sunset Strip. Preparations are underway for a celebration centered on saving...
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Apr 18, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
In a letter to the mayor of Albuquerque, PETA asserted that city employees are guilty of illegally abandoning animals. This is on the heels of Best Friends partnering with the city of Albuquerque in...
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Apr 13, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
Recently, Loews Hotels announced they would be discontinuing their responsible management of on-site feral (“community”) cat colonies at their luxury hotels and resorts in Orlando, Florida.
This...
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Apr 11, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
They used to fly the “friendly skies” but United’s new policy of canine profiling is anything but friendly to families who travel with their dog if their dog happens to look like a pit...
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Apr 3, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society I am currently enjoying the privilege of getting to know a young German
shepherd who came to the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Los Angeles from L.A. Animal Services, and then came home to...
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Mar 30, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
One after the other, Los Angeles, Orange County and other California communities are banning the sale of puppy mill animals through retail outlets. First it was South Lake Tahoe, then West...
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Mar 23, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
The California Assembly Budget Subcommittee rejected Governor Brown’s attempt to repeal critical elements of the Hayden Law yesterday. Tens of thousands of concerned citizens had contacted their...
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Mar 15, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
The Hayden Law, California’s landmark shelter reform legislation, is still in danger of repeal. Governor Jerry Brown has identified critical, lifesaving elements of the bill that he wants to be...
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Mar 9, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
In the world of animal welfare, we spend a great deal of time talking to large groups of people, many of whom are involved in work similar to ours. But far beyond the sphere of our everyday work,...
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Mar 8, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society In an attempt to slow the progress of Florida House Bill 997, which would repeal Miami-Dade County’s pit bull ban, one opponent’s voice has particular poignancy. She is Melissa Moreira.
In 1989,...
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Mar 7, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
Here’s the issue: Thousands of pit-bull-type dogs have been killed in Miami-Dade County, Florida. They have been killed or banished because of the way they look, not because of the way they...
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Feb 28, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
We have been covering the unfolding events surrounding two competing animal shelter bills in the New York State Assembly and will continue to do so until the final bell. For background, I suggest...
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Feb 25, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society
This morning, Ohio governor John Kasich signed House Bill 14 into law and forever changed the lives of pit-bull-type dogs in Ohio, ending the only statewide breed discrimination in the United...
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Feb 22, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society Today, February 16th, is the grand opening of Best Friends Animal Society Pet Adoption and Spay/Neuter Center in Los Angeles, and what a great day it is!
In fact, it is a year to the day since we...
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Feb 17, 2012
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Best Friends Animal Society West Valley City, Utah — yes, the name is quite nondescript, but the city boasts a population of nearly 130,000 and is nestled smack in the middle of the Salt Lake Valley. Haven’t heard of it?...
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Feb 16, 2012
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