-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
-
Planning to “Adopt” a dog? Animal Shelter Has Them At Bargain Prices for Those Not Too Particular. (1949)
In 1949, The Dayton Daily News did a feature on their local animal shelter and their “bargain” dogs.
-
The Difficulty with Transparency in Animal Services
Unpacking the history behind why we have such a hard time being transparent as a movement.
-
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.
Barking at the Knot
Understanding the hidden history of animal services
Barking at the Knot 