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NKLA questions and answers
No-Kill Los Angeles FAQs.
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Best Friends launches progressive community cat programs
Thanks to a generous grant from PetSmart Charities, Best Friends is now partnering with San Antonio and Albuquerque to save more…
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NKLA: How together, we’re going to achieve it
NKLA is mobilizing stakeholders in one unifying effort to transform L.A. into No-Kill L.A. Here's how we're going to…
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Save the Hayden Law – Let’s make it official
Act now to save the Hayden Law and ensure standards of care for California shelter animals are not set back a century.
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Live from Los Angeles, it's the Super Adoption!
Francis Battista reflects on L.A. Super Adoptions, which help hundreds of pets find homes.
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Pet Super Adoptions this weekend
Come out to the Pet Super Adoptions this weekend in L.A. and New York, and learn what makes these adoption extravaganzas so super!
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Michael Vick scandal: Five years later
Read reflections on the NFL player Michael Vick dogfighting scandal 5 years later, including what is happening with the rescued…
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NKLA launch party: We have liftoff!
High-energy launch event marks beginning of full-throttle drive to turn Los Angeles into a no-kill city.
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NKLA: The game changer for Los Angeles animals
NKLA is the cutting-edge campaign and coalition that will lead the city of Los Angeles to no-kill.
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PETA’s at it again
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) opposes trap neuter return for illogical reasons.
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Loews Hotels in Orlando give community cats the shaft
Loews Hotels' abrupt, ill-conceived policy shift regarding feral cats has created a stir in the animal welfare community.
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United Airlines’ breed ban is a big step backward in customer service
United Airlines' unfair dog breed restrictions are a giant step backward from their formerly progressive policy that treated…
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Getting to know a dog
Story of a beautiful German shepherd dog from an animal shelter in LA and my journey to get to know him for the brilliant dog he…
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Tick tock … time running out for California stores selling puppy mill animals
There is a monumental shift in thinking taking place in our country around puppy mills and the retail pet stores that sell them.
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Round #1 of Hayden Law repeal attempt goes to California shelter animals
Supporters of California shelter animals were victorious in the first battle over the Hayden Law repeal, but the war has not yet…
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