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Shelters Are In Crisis. Euthanasia Is Up. Where Did Your $50 Million Go?
Neglected and malnourished pup, awaiting fate at City of San Bernardino Shelter. As we feared, providing "no-kill" fanatics with a state-funded opportunity to influence all of our shelters and distribute $50 million of taxpayer money has not improved the outlook for California's most vulnerable animals. Rescues are [...]
Public Shelters: Refuge for Animals or Not? UPDATED March 2023
March 16, 2023 UPDATE: The dangerous trends outlined in this article continue to expand. Koret Shelter Medicine Program’s report on its usage of California taxpayers’ $50,000,000 is due at the end of this month. Meanwhile, Governor Newsom’s office informed us that our concerns should be taken to the legislature. [...]
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Are Perilous Homes Good Enough For Community Cats?
Shelters argue that abandoned cats belong in their outdoor homes. Rescuers say these "community cats" face myriad dangers, and often [...]
Poppy the Kitten Shares Why She Hates Math More Than You Do
Think you hate math? Wait till you hear about kitten math! That’s our geometric birth rate, which makes it possible [...]
5 Kittens Could Have Been Teenage Grandmas
Some of you may remember these five lovely sisters from our 2021 Holiday newsletter. They were found behind a [...]
PAF Sponsors Free S/N in San Bernardino
It started as a simple goal to help fill the gap in spay/neuter services triggered by the pandemic, but [...]
Gone But Not Forgotten
In 2021, PAF received a $10,000 donation from long time volunteer and San Diego branch manager Mary Ann Travnik, [...]
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