You've digested the lists for top dog towns and cities that rank high for animal welfare concerns, but have you ever read one that tells you where you might rather live if you love cats?

CATalyst is a multi-group organization founded in response to the growing concern that while cats are pulling away from dogs as the most popular pets in the US, their veterinary visits are on the...

Yeah, after neutering 91 cats in three hours our fingers might’ve been on automatic––and every male in my vicinity in the immediate thereafter should’ve been on high alert––but we felt sooooo good. 

Sure, we could have neutered twice as many, but for our first event we did pretty darn good. Add an additional 120-plus spayed females and we were all on cloud nine. Spaying and neutering has...

On Dolittler we’ve talked ad nauseum about shutting down puppy mills, closing the pet stores that support the industry, and educating the consumers who keep the whole horrible clock ticking with their unenlightened approach to acquiring puppies.

That’s why there’s little need to rehash the gory details of unsanitary conditions, irresponsible breeding practices, poor-doer pups and the...

It’s a subject veterinarians hate to raise. But it’s a fact: Shelter dogs can harbor diseases we’d rather not think about when recommending shelter adoptions over other means of pet acquisition. Not if we want the unwanted to be granted loving homes.

Mitigating the pet overpopulation crisis through increased adoptions from shelters and rescues is crucial to these efforts. That’s why when

Yeah, it’s time to talk rabies again. Because, in case you’ve forgotten while you were worrying about the admittedly not-insignificant risk of rabies vaccination for your pets, almost 50,000 people die every year of this horrific disease. 

But you want to know what would happen if rabies vaccine freedom reigned supreme in the “first world”? That’s right, we might start to look an awful...

Everyone knows that chocolate is bad for dogs, right? Problem is, most of us think it’s only about the sweet bars of brown stuff and big bags of candy-coated goo. 

Not so much so. In fact, the chocolate most likely to land your dog in the ICU is a baking staple––cocoa powder. This common pantry item, along with the almost-black chunks of the unsweetened stuff, are liable to kill a dog if...

I had another post planned for today, but since receiving word of Florida’s new plan to play de-facto breeder police I couldn’t help but change my lineup.

First the good news: Florida’s backed off its HB 451, the bill that would mandate spay and neuter of most pets over four months throughout the whole state. 

Now the bad news:  Instead, my great state has offered up twin bills, SB 2002...

One of my personal favorite Dolittler posts was titled after the immortal words of Chris Rock: “That tiger didn’t go crazy, that tiger went tiger!”

In case you don’t remember, that was the post that followed the Christmas Day mauling of three young men at the the San Francisco Zoo last year. It was a horrific event, capturing the nation’s googly-eyed greed for the violently salacious every...

Ever thought you’d look to the pages of a mass-market magazine for advice on feeding your pets?

The crotchety, consumer-advocate periodical you know as Consumer Reports claims millions of readers who turn its pages in search of “best buy,” “smartest sale” and “look-out-you’re-getting-hosed” kind of fare. On the whole, this mag is real close--if not right on the money--when it comes to telling...

In case you hadn’t noticed, the subject of animal law is getting more popular in the US...and not just on Dolittler. Though the theme gets relatively little play in American courts, law students don’t seem to care. 

Lawyers-to-be have organized themselves into coalitions to push for animal law curricula at their individual schools and the lucky recipients have packed their classrooms. Though...