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This Week in Animal ProtectionU.S. Census: 63,775,000 homes have petsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues. There is also a 15-minute sample of the podcast for those who have not yet subscribed. Sample podcasts are also available on Apple, Spotify, and Google Play.Australian doctors and scholars are calling on the government to cover some veterinary medicine expenses through its Medicare system. “Unlike in...2022-10-3012 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionReport: Wildlife Populations Declined 69%This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues. For those who want to skip the news and go straight to the main discussion, it begins at the 20:21 mark.There is also a 15-minute sample of the podcast for those who have not yet subscribed. Sample podcasts are also available on Apple, Spotify, and Google Play.2022-10-2215 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionNo Kill ShelteringThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues. There is also a 15-minute sample of the podcast for those who have not yet subscribed. Sample podcasts are also available on Apple, Spotify, and Google Play.A majority of domestic violence victims report that their companion animals are also being abused or threatened with abuse. Not s...2022-10-1515 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionThe Times They Are A-Changin'This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues, including the appointment of a special envoy for animals at the State Department for the first time ever. According to the announcement, “Overfishing, pollution, pesticides, disease, urban sprawl and, of course, climate change contribute to declines in imperiled species’ populations worldwide.” The envoy’s job will be to help the U.S. and o...2022-10-0713 min
This Week in Animal Protection161,500 adopted during Clear the SheltersThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues, including why intakes are down, redemptions are steady, and adoptions are increasing at shelters that have implemented the No Kill Equation. The conclusion? Shelter killing is a choice. And yet, excuses for it are becoming increasingly absurd. For those who want to skip the news and go straight to the main...2022-10-0114 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionWaycross, GA, shelter kills mom, 4 puppies despite rescue commitmentsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues, including why temperament testing doesn’t work in shelters, why animals are set up to fail, why they get sick, and what science says shelters should be doing to keep dogs and cats happy and healthy. For those who want to skip the news and go straight to the main discussion, it...2022-09-1816 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionProtesting the Gas ChamberThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nathanwinograd.substack.comThese are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:Subscribers can also listen to the podcast above, which includes extended commentary on many of the issues, including the emergence of Critical Race Theory in the humane movement and how it threatens to upend more than a century of progress in animal welfare and animal rights.For those who want to skip the news and go straight to the main discussion, it begins at the 21:05 mark.2022-09-1112 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionPodcast: Ask Me AnythingThis is a special episode of “This Week in Animal Protection,” my podcast, in which Jennifer and I do not focus on the week’s news followed by a deep dive on an animal rights issue as we normally do, but on answering your questions instead.I invited my Substack and Facebook readers to ask me anything. I received dozens of questions in response, over 100 comments in all. They covered many issues: whether animals feel pain when killed in shelters, humane vs. aversive dog training, trying to eliminate rental housing discrimination for families that include animals, and more.2022-07-281h 00
The Behaviour Speak PodcastEpisode 36: Saving Cats and Dogs from Euthanasia Using Behaviour Analysis with Dr. Jennifer Fritz, Ph.D., BCBA-D, and Dr. Steven Payne, Ph.D., BCBA-DIn this two-interview episode, Ben chats with Jennifer Fritz, Ph.D., BCBA-D and Steven Payne, Ph.D., BCBA-D about their respective Cat Labs! Drs. Fritz and Payne implement function-based treatments with shelter cats and dogs who engage in behaviour that prevents them from being adopted and often results in them being put down.
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Dr. Jennifer Fritz: https://www.uhcl.edu/human-sciences-humanities/faculty/fritz-jennifer
Dr. Steven Payne: https://valleyanimal.org/pawlab
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This Week in Animal ProtectionWinter is ComingSince the 1990s, the No Kill movement has forced tremendous progress upon a resistant and regressive sheltering industry. That progress includes a decline in the national death rate of 90%, fewer people buying animals and more people adopting, an increasing number of cities and even entire states banning the retail sale of commercially-bred animals in pet stores, half of all Nebraska puppy mills shutting down, and towns making it illegal to engage in commercial breeding to protect “the healthful and humane treatment of dogs.” Because of the No Kill movement, the embrace of the No Kill Equation, and codif...2022-03-221h 11
This Week in Animal ProtectionYesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United StatesListen above to “What’s Past is Prologue” part five of “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United States,” a podcast series.Carl Sagan once said, “The visions we offer… shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.”There was a time when No Kill was just a hope. We dreamed it anyway. And because we did, it no longer is. We now have a solution to shelter killing and it is not difficult, expensive, or beyond practical means to achieve. Unlike the “adopt some and kill the...2022-02-051h 08
This Week in Animal ProtectionYesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United StatesListen above to “A glass half full and half empty” part four of “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United States,” a podcast series.This is Part 4 of a 5-part series Jennifer and I call, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” In it, we’ve done a sweep of animal sheltering in the United States. In Part 1, we discussed the founding of our movement in the mid-19th century by Henry Bergh who incorporated the first SPCA and how his vision of a society dedicated to animals – all animals – gave way to a network of humane societies who became the lea...2022-01-211h 54
This Week in Animal ProtectionThis Week in Animal Protection‘Gumdrop’ was the first ‘pit bull’ to be adopted in Denver after the 30-year ban was repealed. But he wasn’t the last. ‘The Denver Animal Shelter found homes for 100 pit bulls in 2021, enough to make the newly legalized dogs the second-most adopted breed at the shelter.’ These are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:* Manatee County, FL, “approved a new ordinance that prevents the killing of feral cats. The changes are a result of a Manatee County woman’s loss and efforts to save other cats from the same fate” when her neighbor had the...2022-01-1510 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionYesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United StatesListen above to “All of Them: No Kill moves from the theoretical to the real” part three of “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United States,” a podcast series.This is Part 3 of what is shaping up to be a 5-part series Jennifer and I call, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” In it, we’ve done a sweep of animal sheltering in the United States, starting with Part 1: the movement’s founding by the late, great Henry Bergh and the betrayal of his animal rights vision.In Part 2, we discuss a series of internal conflicts that o...2022-01-052h 04
This Week in Animal ProtectionYesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United StatesListen above to “A House of Cards Divided: The fight for the heart and soul of America’s animal shelters,” part two of “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United States,” a podcast series.I recently published several articles and podcasts about how some groups have abandoned their No Kill mission and are now successfully encouraging others to do the same. Concerned about the increasing betrayal of No Kill ideals by organizations that grew influential and wealthy by championing that very cause, I have embarked on a podcast series that will serve both as a refresher...2021-12-221h 51
This Week in Animal ProtectionYesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United StatesListen above to “Regarding Henry: The birth and betrayal of the humane movement in America,” part one of “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Animal Sheltering in the United States,” a podcast series.I recently published several articles and podcasts about how some groups have abandoned their No Kill mission and are now successfully encouraging others to do the same. Concerned about the increasing betrayal of No Kill ideals by organizations that grew influential and wealthy by championing that very cause, this is part one of a podcast series that will serve both as a refresher on the history and prin...2021-12-1050 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionNo more monkey businessIn the conversation above, we talk about how the global hunger for coconuts is fueling the abuse of primates forced to harvest coconuts in three of the top coconut growing countries: Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. We discuss how we uncovered this abuse while working on a new edition of All American Vegan, our cookbook, how we were able to increase awareness of this issue through our advocacy, and how that advocacy not only led to a study which documented this abuse first-hand, but bans on primate-harvested coconuts by British and American companies. From body lotions, so...2021-12-0350 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionThis Week in Animal ProtectionIn “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” we discuss how compromises in the pursuit of money lead to corruption and how organizations that start out with great promise and make a fortune challenging the status quo, then become the status quo at the expense of their values, their mission, and the very animals they promised to protect. Oreo, an abused dog, was killed by the ASPCA, despite a rescue group offering to save her. Two volunteers of the group even went to the ASPCA but were escorted out after the ASPCA refused to meet with them. On a cold...2021-11-201h 03
This Week in Animal ProtectionInside the PETA Kill RoomIn this podcast, we interview Heather Harper-Troje, a former PETA fieldworker. At the behest of PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, it was her job “to get as many animals as possible” by promising people that they would find homes knowing that “the vast majority of those animals were [to be] killed.” Harper-Troje says killing is not an ancillary part of the job; it goes to the core of the mission. She also describes how a dog named “Black Boy” set her back on the path to animal rights and away from PETA. The PETA kill room.The fact tha...2021-11-1759 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionFor whom the bell tollsWhat’s it like to be a dog being experimented on in a laboratory? A cat in the kill room of an animal “shelter”? A cow in a slaughterhouse? A mouse on a glue trap? A deer being hunted? A pig on a factory farm?Animals have eyes and they see with them, the way we humans see with ours. They have ears and they hear with them; again, just like us. They have legs and they walk with them. They have mouths and they eat with them and so on. The idea that the eyes of animal...2021-10-2606 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionRescue is what happens when you are busy making other plansIn this podcast, Jennifer and I have a conversation about rescuing animals in need of help and how we always seem to come across them when we are running late, on vacation, or simply take a wrong turn. Often, it starts with seeing something on the side of the road and one of us asking, “what was that?” before turning the car around to do what we call the “double check.”We also talk about how rescuers can feel isolated in a world that seems indifferent to the suffering of our fellow earthlings, like when an anima...2021-10-141h 13
This Week in Animal ProtectionOf Mice and MenIn the podcast, Jennifer and I have a conversation about something awful that happened to us last week, and how sharing that awful story on social media resulted in something wonderful.While out for a walk with our dog Oswald, I came across several mice stuck on glue traps who had been dumped in a bag on the side of the road. Over two days, I would find a total of five mice. Two were dead, one was crying but had been sandwiched between two traps and had been partially stepped on, and he died shortly afterward...2021-10-0446 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionDid an abused monkey pick your coconut?From traditional body lotions, soaps, and household cleaning products to cheeses, butters, and veggie burgers, coconuts and their various derivatives (including coconut water, coconut oil, and coconut milk) are everywhere. Coconut-based ingredients can be found in almost all shampoos and conditioners, most cosmetics and household products, and many foods. They are especially prevalent in vegan foods. In 2020, the number of plant-based products increased 14% over the previous year. Growth of meat alternatives “is projected to increase from $4.6 billion in 2018 to a whopping $85 billion in 2030,” but that will pale in comparison to dairy alternatives, which are “estimated to dominate the ove...2021-09-1508 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionThis Week in Animal ProtectionLos Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control officers kick a dog who is being held down with a hard-wired noose around his neck. Although transparency helps keeps abuse in check, the Department is moving to eliminate it and it has the support of organizations like the ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society to do it.Some 200 dogs and cats have escaped Kabul, but not everyone is celebrating. For the second time in as many months, an investigation into abusive conditions at the Philadelphia pound, including breaking a dog's jaw, killing him, and covering it up...2021-09-1106 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionThe Growing Threat of DarknessA dog in a filthy kennel at Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care & Control.Shelters across the country are complaining that they are at overcapacity. A coalition in South Carolina has even declared a “state of emergency.” A spokesperson put it in stark terms: “The lives of thousands of animals in shelters across South Carolina are at stake.”While shelters are blaming the public by saying they are surrendering animals in droves, the data tells a very different story. Pet Point, a shelter management software used by thousands of shelters and rescue groups across the coun...2021-09-0711 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionThis Week in Animal ProtectionPrince celebrates his Gotcha Day! As more people turn to rescue and adoption and more shelters embrace progressive policies, this could be the story of every shelter animal in America. The AKC wants you to believe that a dog shortage has reached crisis proportions. A gender studies professor objects to helping disabled dogs and cats gain mobility. Raleigh, NC, criminalizes compassion for “feral” cats. There are no chickens in the new “chicken” nuggets for sale at the stadium of the San Francisco Giants. The market for vegan meats will increase five-fold over the next 10 years. A Federal Court of...2021-08-2806 min
This Week in Animal ProtectionIs There a Great American Dog Shortage?Authorities found these conditions at an AKC “Breeder of Merit” only eight days after an AKC inspection found “everything was up to par.” The “Breeder of Merit” was charged with cruelty. If you believe the article in Axios, by Jennifer Kingson, America is in the grip of a great dog shortage. “Demand for pet dogs is far outstripping supply,” she writes, “and the imbalance is expected to worsen.” The way Kingson tells it: millions of Americans want to get a dog but can't find one. Unless we take action, millions more will face the same problem. But what action shou...2021-08-2313 min-443.png)
KSCO Pet RadioOur Paw’d Cast: How much progress have we made? Nathan J. Winograd, Author and No Kill advocateNathan J. Winograd and friend
This is a fascinating and wide-ranging history of the no-kill shelter movement in America, told by a man who helped create much of that history. The number of animal lives that Nathan's work and influence have saved over the past two decades is certainly in the millions.
I would not be doing this program -- or rescuing animals -- if I had never met Nathan Winograd, who will be on this week to talk about the progress that has been made during the 14 years since he founded the No Kill Advocacy Center. Here is where...2018-08-2733 min