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A World Apart: Navigating the Road Between Dreams and Reality
In a homogeneous country, every community could apply the same cookie-cutter formula to its homeless animal problem. But animal shelters are far from immune to the economic and cultural divides that plague U.S. society, and the roadmap for ending euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals must reflect those differences.

Departments

The Front Lines

• Communities pair up with the Red Cross to make animal-related disaster preparations
• Provision may make it easier for people in public housing to have pets
• The third incidence of a fatal rabbit disease is identified in the U.S.

StraightTalk
An interview with Captain Ken Beauregard of the San Diego Humane Society & SPCA, which last year conducted the largest cockfighting bust in U.S. history

Resources
For the Shelter Shop

Perspective
A New York shelter director says he won’t consider the race to end the need for euthanasia won until everyone can declare victory