I found this great summary of the work that is done by Best Friends Society, Utah. The recent edition of this magazine also has a section on Pit Bulls, with an interview with Josh Liddy, which I shall purchase as soon as possible.
Here are a couple of snippets from the summary;
"Because Best Friends evolved from a hands-on, grassroots approach to animal welfare, our work at a national level is grounded with an understanding that the ultimate test of any big-picture decision is how it affects individual animals as well as the frontline rescuers and volunteers who drive our movement. How a policy affects a feral colony in Iowa or rescued pit bulls in Los Angeles matters every bit as much as the numbers, percentages, and trends by which we measure our progress and effectiveness."
"A fact that may surprise some is that, nationwide, cats comprise close to 70% of the animals dying in shelters and most of those are free-roaming (stray or feral) community cats. In order to achieve no-kill, we must institutionalize Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) as the accepted management protocol for community cats at the municipal level. Frightened or fractious cats never make it to the adoption room. They have no business entering a shelter in the first place."
"Pit bulls and other bully breeds and their mixes are also at tremendous risk in our shelters and are further victimized by media hype and regressive policies in some communities.
Examples of this discrimination range from outright breed bans to shelters that refuse to even offer these dogs for adoption. Best Friends has fought against breed discriminatory legislation in 110 communities and has won victories for pit bulls in 73 of them-benefiting an estimated 63,000 dogs that won't need to look for new homes and that won't be seized by enforcement officers."
Read the full article here.
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