Archive - The Shift To Prevention

Why Your Spay/Neuter Program Looks Broken in Year Two: 7-8 per 1000

Everyone is doing spay/neuter. Almost nobody is dosing it. Here is the number that tells you which one you are.

Aug 18 • BJ Adkins

Your Pet Is a Public Health Decision, Not a Feelings Decision

Rabies, dog bites, and parvo are not animal lover problems. They are yours, and prevention is the cheapest thing that has ever fixed them.

Aug 11 • BJ Adkins

An Alabama County First - This One Belongs to Blount County

No county in Alabama has done this before. Blount County is going first.

Aug 8 • BJ Adkins

Transport Is Not Prevention, It Is Geography

Moving animals out of state empties the kennel. It does not change what fills it back up.

Aug 4 • BJ Adkins

July 2026

Everyone in the Comments Is Right. That Is the Problem.

Fifty people who love dogs, all fighting over the one true cause, while the flood keeps rising.

Jul 28 • BJ Adkins

Keep the Breeder Rules. Cut the Breed List.

Mobile is about to vote on the most detailed animal ordinance an Alabama city has written in years. Most of it is prevention. One section is the part…

Jul 25 • BJ Adkins

A Feeding Ban Is Not a Cat Policy. It Is a Visibility Policy.

What Sylacauga's proposed ordinance would actually do, and the paragraph in Alabama's rabies code that makes it backfire.

Jul 24 • BJ Adkins

Spay/Neuter Is Public Health. Stop Funding It With a Donation Jar.

We fund every other disease we can prevent. This one we leave to bake sales.

Jul 21 • BJ Adkins

Kitten Season Is a Policy Failure, Not a Cat Problem

The flood is predictable to the week.

Jul 14 • BJ Adkins

The Phone Call Before the Shelter Is the One Nobody Is Staffed For

Most pet surrender begins before the shelter.

Jul 7 • BJ Adkins

Stop Being the Front Door for Every Problem in the Region

One shared network, so the family gets routed to the right door and it stops always being yours. Keep more families together.

Jul 6 • BJ Adkins

June 2026

Nobody Writes "I Don't Want My Dog"

The messages families actually send, and what they tell us about surrender.

Jun 30 • BJ Adkins

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