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No Hope For Girl Near Death from Year Old Cat Bite
In 1913, a 13 year old girl developed rabies one year after receiving treatment for a cat bite…or did she?
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The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser and Destroyer of Wildlife – Part 3
The Audubon Society’s 1916 booklet on management of community cats portrays them not only as killers of birds, but also as disease vectors dangerous to society.
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F.B.I. Probes Rabies Wave as Sabatoge
A look back at Cleveland’s spring 1943 rabies scare, when fear, media pressure, and even brief Federal Bureau of Investigation involvement pushed the city to the brink of a dog quarantine. This piece explores how communities once managed rabies and how responses like this one shaped our current animal control policies today.
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S.P.C.A. Refuses Animals For Vivisection
In 1932, a proposed ordinance change in San Francisco suggested animals from their shelter be released to medical colleges for experimentation.
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So You Hate Managed Intake?
Managed intake is simply a term for common sense lifesaving. Why do we feel so strongly about intake as a default option?
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The Difficulty with Transparency in Animal Services
Unpacking the history behind why we have such a hard time being transparent as a movement.
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The Arsenic Club: Blackmail and Horse Poisoners, Part 1
What did early cruelty investigations look like? Here’s one: A gang of horse poisoners going by the name The Arsenic Club set a reign of terror on the east side of Manhattan in 1909, killing more than 500 horses in just three months.
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Animals in the Service of Man: A Humane Education Video from 1944
Animals in the Service of Man was an educational video for children produced by the American Humane Association and shown as part of the humane ed curriculum in the 1940s.
Barking at the Knot
Understanding the hidden history of animal services
Barking at the Knot 