Cities are reexamining and repealing breed specific laws (bsl) because of the new ADA guidance on Service Dogs...

The new trend since the Michael Vick case of allowing dogs seized from fight busts to be evaluated and adopted out or transferred to rescue groups.

More and more cities are facing lawsuits from police shooting family pets.

More cities are enacting reckless or problem pet owner ordinances to prevent bad owners from owning pets and repealing their breed discriminatory or breed specific laws.

The unintended fiscal costs of enacting ordinances that target breed not behavior.

An executive summary of two published studies of dogs from high-volume commercial breeding establishments

Animal control isn’t usually the first department that comes to mind when local governments think of process improvement, innovation, and best practices but it should be! A well-run animal control department costs about $4 per citizen annually but many local governments strip down the budget and hope that the costs can be covered by fees like pet registration alone. This usually leads to an ineffective animal control department that cannot cover its operating costs. There is also room for innovation in the message that animal control departments send about euthanizing and spaying and neutering