Archive for: April, 2009

Missouri chimpanzee attack sparks call for legislation banning non-human primates as pets

Published under News.

National exotic animal organization, Born Free USA, calls for stricter measures in private, exotic, animal ownership; right on the heels of the Missouri chimpanzee shooting.

Defending Your Life: When a Shelter Dog Protests His Death

Published under General.

I wanted to follow-up yesterday’s post, “Confessions of a Euthanasia Technician”, with a story that has a happy ending, because for each heartbreak, we have many happy endings. And it is those happy endings that keep us going in the tough work that we do. They are that “light at the end of the tunnel” that gives us a little glimmer of hope that the work we do is not in vain.