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The Battle of Island City Homes
This week in Barking at the Knot, we have a guest post from fellow animal welfare worker and history lover Cole Wakefield. Cole is the Executive Director at Good Shepherd Humane Society and the Managing Advisor for Rural Humane. Hear about how some young boys fought to save their dog in Galveston, Texas in 1957.
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“Automatic Electric Cage”
The humane movement never began with the intention to provide live outcomes. It began with the intention to provide humane death.
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“Mercy to Animals Means Mercy to Mankind.”
Of all the founders of the animal welfare movement, none were so colorful in their public application of the first anti-cruelty laws as Henry Bergh, the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York. Fairly, he had a right to be colorful with the law; He is the…
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Understanding the hidden history of animal services
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