Animal Welfare Meets the Future with Plusher Digs, More Customer.... Liz Stevens.
by Stevens, Liz; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 6Human Relations. Publisher: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Animal shelters | Animal welfare | Euthanasia of animals | Pet adoptionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Thirty years ago, the United States was euthanizing approximately 14 million animals annually. Today (2005), the number is closer to 5 million....In fact, the dog pound of yesterday has all but vanished. And the dog catcher with the paddy wagon has gone the way of, well, the paddy wagon. The newest shelter adoption facilities are museumlike in their appeal and hotel-like in their accommodations." (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM) This article profiles an animal shelter in Fort Worth, Texas, and examines how "animal welfare--and all that the phrase suggests--has become an industry unto itself."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Animal Welfare Meets the Future with Plusher Digs, More Customer..., Jan. 31, 2005; pp. n.p..
"Thirty years ago, the United States was euthanizing approximately 14 million animals annually. Today (2005), the number is closer to 5 million....In fact, the dog pound of yesterday has all but vanished. And the dog catcher with the paddy wagon has gone the way of, well, the paddy wagon. The newest shelter adoption facilities are museumlike in their appeal and hotel-like in their accommodations." (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM) This article profiles an animal shelter in Fort Worth, Texas, and examines how "animal welfare--and all that the phrase suggests--has become an industry unto itself."
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