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And Now For Something Completely Different   Best Friends Animal Society “And now for a message from your friends at the Bureau of Weights and Measures.” How’s that for an exciting opener? It was a favored expression of one of our English founders to describe any...

Oct 8, 2014 0

Strut Your Pit Bull … Er, Mutt!   Best Friends Animal Society This past Saturday I had the good fortune to attend the Best Friends Strut Your Mutt event in New York City and to help out with a little emceeing. Strut Your Mutt is a fantastic event wherever...

Oct 3, 2014 0

Run, Gregory, Run: Part II   Best Friends Animal Society I posted a blog August 29 about the participation of my friend and co-founder, Best Friends CEO Gregory Castle, in this year’s Grand to Grand Ultra. It’s a 170-mile race across some of the most...

Sep 26, 2014 0

Looking Forward To The Biggest, Best National Conference Ever!   Best Friends Animal Society Despite being virtually born to Utah’s ski slopes, I love the dry summer heat of southern Utah, and as fall approaches with crisp morning air and lengthening afternoon shadows I start to get a bit...

Sep 18, 2014 0

Changing The World: Our Own Francis Battista’s Amazing TEDx Talk   Best Friends Animal Society How does a group, or even one person, change the world? One of my mentors and Best Friends co-founder, Francis Battista, can tell you. Thirty years ago, a ragtag crew of dreamers and visionaries...

Sep 16, 2014 0

The Brothers Magoo   Best Friends Animal Society Ray and Shadow are two black dogs from Los Angeles. That’s about all they have in common other than both sharing a home with Gregory and me. Ray (Ray-Ray) is a 12-pound blind Chihuahua and Shadow...

Sep 13, 2014 0

Is Pet Overpopulation A Myth?   Best Friends Animal Society There is a bit of a flap in the world of animal rescue about the claim by some that pet overpopulation is a myth. These are fighting words for many who labor in the trenches and especially to those...

Sep 9, 2014 0

Run, Gregory, Run!   Best Friends Animal Society Best Friends Animal Society CEO Gregory Castle is a runner, and as a non-runner, I look at my longtime colleague and friend with wonder and occasional puzzlement. At 71, he plans to run, walk and...

Aug 29, 2014 0

Collective Double Take   Best Friends Animal Society The animal welfare community did a collective double take at the recent announcement that Ed Sayres, retired CEO of the ASPCA, lifelong animal welfare advocate and professional, was named as the new...

Aug 28, 2014 0

Chalk Up Another Win For Community Cats   Best Friends Animal Society The success of Best Friends Animal Society’s Community Cats Project (CCP) partnership with PetSmart Charities® is helping to redefine community cat management protocols across the country. Last...

Aug 19, 2014 0

Network Partners Receive More Than $500,000 In Grants   Best Friends Animal Society All across the country, Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets Network partners are saving lives in their own communities, and we’re proud to be helping them do just that. The situation we’re...

Aug 16, 2014 0

Records Break In Los Angeles: Historic, All-Time Low In Annual Shelter Deaths Recorded   Best Friends Animal Society In 2012, when Best Friends launched the NKLA initiative, aimed at making Los Angeles a no-kill city by 2017, we knew that our most important partner would be Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS). It...

Aug 7, 2014 0

Best Friends Staff Members Get Involved Locally To Save Them All   Best Friends Animal Society In today’s wired world, reality for all types of organizations — for-profit as well as nonprofit — means often having remote staff located thousands of miles from operational headquarters. For...

Aug 5, 2014 0

Holiday Wishes To All   Best Friends Animal Society As we celebrate the holidays here at Best Friends, we have many blessings to count and many friends for whom to be grateful. Foremost amongst our blessings is the privilege that we share with you of...

Dec 19, 2013 0

Thoughts From An Englishman On The Fourth Of July   Best Friends Animal Society As we celebrate the Fourth of July, I can’t help but reflect upon how grateful I am to be an American citizen. I was born in Britain, but chose to become a naturalized citizen of the United...

Jul 3, 2013 0

The Breakthrough Idea Of The Decade   Best Friends Animal Society Last weekend, I was at a symposium in Portland, Oregon, on the future of spay/neuter and the exciting possibilities that a nonsurgical option will hold for our four-legged friends — notably...

Jun 29, 2013 0

The Holy Grail Of Spay/neuter   Best Friends Animal Society Over the weekend, I was invited to speak at the 5th International Symposium on Non-Surgical Contraceptive Methods of Pet Population Control presented by the Alliance for Contraception in Cats &...

Jun 27, 2013 0

Ban On Sale Of Puppies In L.A.   Best Friends Animal Society This week, the city of Los Angeles took another huge step toward becoming No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA). Back in November, the city council passed an ordinance outlawing the sale of puppies, kittens...

Jun 26, 2013 0

Vicktory Dog Lucas   Best Friends Animal Society There is a big void in Best Friends’ world today. We had to say goodbye to Lucas last night. His declining health over the last year finally overtook him. It’s a very sad day here at the...

Jun 21, 2013 0

A Nod To The Mayor   Best Friends Animal Society Best Friends is entirely nonpolitical, and in Los Angeles we have worked to help city shelter animals since the mid-1990s, regardless of the politics of the administration. We have offered programs...

Jun 20, 2013 0