Beth Frank
- 7 days ago
- 3 min
Does Animal Sheltering Extend Beyond A Shelter’s Walls? (Blog #10)
The answer should be YES. But is it? The current animal sheltering model, backed and pushed by our largest national organizations, puts a...
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Beth Frank
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Transparency: The Foundation of Animal Sheltering (Blog Post #9)
Transparency is an ethic that makes it easy for others to see what is being done. All animal sheltering models not only must include...
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Beth Frank
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Breaking News!!! (Post #8)
I had intended to begin talking about shelter transparency and its role in animal sheltering with this post. We had breaking news last...
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Beth Frank
- Feb 27
- 3 min
Be The Best That You Can Be
Let’s continue our discussion from my last blog on how transferring/transporting reduces the need for killing and raises shelters’ Live...
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Beth Frank
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Live Release Rates (LRR): Real or Artificial?
For the purposes of this chat, we won’t distinguish between Live Release Rates, Save Rates or “No-Kill" but rather address them in whole...
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Beth Frank
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Does Managed Intake Promote More Abandonment?
We all know that there are cats - and now dogs - everywhere in need of help. Owners are having issues in their lives and they can’t care...
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Beth Frank
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Real Talk For 2023 (Blog Post #4)
People who know me know I rarely post anything personal but today I want to share a few of my thoughts with everyone. (Oh-oh.) As we find...
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Beth Frank
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Are You A De Facto Animal Shelter (Thank Managed Intake) (Blog #3)
Let’s answer the obvious question first: What is a de facto animal shelter? It is in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not, where a...
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Beth Frank
- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
Turn Down the Reproduction Faucet (Blog #2)
Question: Does it benefit the animals or is it about something else (improving shelter numbers and outcomes, raising more donations,...
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Beth Frank
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
It's Kickoff Time!
I started this journey into the world of community cats and trap-neuter-return (TNR) over eight years ago by creating our first Facebook...
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