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Layoffs loom for employees as Monterey County tightens its budget belt.
Monterey County Animal Services employees have been as nervous as the cats they care for since the county’s 2018-19 draft budget was...
Pam Marino, Monterey County Weekly
May 30, 20182 min read
Santa Barbara County Sheriff and Santa Maria Valley Humane Society Partner With New Inmate Dog Train
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown and Santa Maria Valley Humane Society Executive Director Sean Hawkins announced an agreement...
Santa Maria Valley Humane Society
May 30, 20183 min read
Animal Cruelty Prosecution Unit Launched by San Diego County DA’s Office
An abused 3-month-old terrier abandoned in Santee. File photo County Animal Services People who abuse animals will be getting more...
Toni McAllister, Times of San Diego
May 30, 20182 min read
Dozens of animal welfare activists arrested after large protest at Petaluma chicken farm
One of the largest animal welfare demonstrations ever held at a Sonoma County farm ended Tuesday with the peaceful arrests of 40...
Robert Digitale and Susan Minichiello
May 29, 20183 min read
Rodeo sold toy guns a day after high school massacre
In his 2015 book, “The Meaning of Human Existence,” Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson writes that we, as a species, are “innately...
Eric Mills, Letter to the Editor, The Mercury News
May 27, 20181 min read
Riverside man who fatally slashed pit bull for killing his small dog sentenced
A Riverside man who slashed a pit bull to death after it attacked and killed his poodle was sentenced Friday to three years probation....
City News Service, The Press-Enterprise
May 25, 20182 min read
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