Two Hundred Dogs Did Not Arrive on That Property

They were born there, one unprevented litter at a time. One of them is my dog's mother. Nobody published what the response cost, and that is part of the…

Oct 6 • BJ Adkins

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September 2026

Delaware Found the Money. It Was Sitting on the Rabies Shot.

A $3 surcharge, 40,000 surgeries, and what the same mechanism would raise in Alabama. Also what it would not.

Sep 22 • BJ Adkins

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I Published a Savings Number That Was Wrong. Here Is the Honest One

Prevention has a credibility problem with the people who hold the budgets, and some of it we did to ourselves.

Sep 15 • BJ Adkins

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Seventeen Years of Huntsville's Numbers, Including the Part Nobody Quotes

If you do animal welfare work in Alabama, you have heard about Huntsville.

Sep 8 • BJ Adkins

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Alabama Already Funds Spay/Neuter. It Reaches Six Percent of What Would Work

The state built the mechanism in 2007 and it works. Then it left it at pilot scale for seventeen years, and forty-eight of sixty-seven counties cannot…

Sep 1 • BJ Adkins

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August 2026

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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