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Kim Sturla, executive director of Animal Place

By | February 17, 2021 | Adoption, Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Kim Sturla—executive director of Animal Place, the 600-acre farmed animal sanctuary in Grass Valley, California she co-founded in 1989—recounts that she had been employed by a local humane society for some time before launching Animal Place, having already spent a number of years “working with and for animals.” Read more…

Rebekah Keat & Siri Lindley, co-founders of Horses In Our Hands

By | August 5, 2020 | Adoption, Advocates, Horses, Rescue | No comments

Rebekah Keat & Siri Lindley—co-founders of Horses in Our Hands, which is dedicated to ending horse slaughter—discuss their respective entries into competing at the world-class level in the Triathlon. Read more…

Alana Miller, founder of The Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary

By | February 12, 2020 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, General, Health & Behavior | No comments

Alana Miller—founder of the Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, a North Carolina facility that, since 2005, has rescued and provided a forever home for blind cats—recounts her first experience with a blind cat, and how by thee time she’d adopted three more, she realized she needed to create an entity to serve this feline constituency. Read more…

Rick Chaboudy, co-founder of Suncoast Animal League

By | November 13, 2019 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Spay/Neuter, Spay/Neuter | No comments

Rick Chaboudy—the co-founder and executive director of Suncoast Animal League, the Palm Harbor-based animal welfare organization/shelter that is distinct by virtue of caring for both domestic animals and wildlife—traces the history of his long career working in animal welfare in the Tampa Bay area, going back even before he spent 20-plus years as executive director of the Humane Society of Pinellas (previously called Clearwater SPCA). Read more…

James Terry, about Mega Pet Adoption Event; Photographer Laurie Wolf, about Viral Photo

By | May 1, 2019 | Adoption, Advocates, Cats, Dogs, General | No comments

James Terry—Hernando County Animal Services Manager and one of the organizers of the Mega Pet Adoption Event, to be held May 17-19 at the Hernando County Fairgrounds, offering upwards of 700 dogs and cats—explains how the idea for the extravaganza came together: Read more…

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