From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

ST. LOUIS–Losing patience with seven years of faltering
efforts to raise funds to build a new city pound, St. Louis mayor
Francis Slay in March 2010 ordered the closure by summer of the
current pound, built in 1941, and directed the city health
department to find an outside pound contractor.
Plans were afoot in 1995-1996 for St. Louis animal control to
take over a shelter built by the Humane Society of Missouri in 1965
and expanded in 1981, after the humane society completed an $11
million new shelter across the street. The new Humane Society of
Missouri shelter opened in 1998, but by then the city had lost
interest in the old facilities.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

TORONTO–The Ontario SPCA returned management of the Toronto
Humane Society to THS on April 1, 2010, under an agreement ratified
by Superior Court Justice David Brown, but the THS shelter is to
remain closed for six weeks, from April 12 to June 1, while the
building is cleaned and the staff are retrained.
THS was given the first 12 days of April to find homes for
about 200 animals remaining at the shelter. Any animals not placed
by April 12 were to be surrendered to the Ontario SPCA.
The 13 present THS board members are to resign before a May
30 board election. Tim Trow, THS president since November 2001,
resigned on January 26, 2010. Trow and seven other THS personnel are
facing charges including conspiracy and neglect of animals. The
Ontario SPCA began charging THS key personnel after raiding THS–for
the second time in five months–in November 2009.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

The American SPCA and Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals on
March 31, 2010 jointlyannounced and welcomed the hiring of former
ASPCA director of shelter operations and humane education outreach
Julie Bank to head the New York City Center for Animal Care &
Control, starting April 12. After 10 years with the ASPCA, Bank
served as director of education and therapeutic programs for the
Arizona Humane Society, deputy director of Maricopa County Animal
Care & Control , and executive director of the North County Humane
Society & SPCA in Oceanside, California. The latter recently merged
with the San Diego Humane Society.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

The American Humane Association was still operating
short-handed at the beginning of April 2010. Six-year president
Marie Belew Wheatley resigned on January 8, 2010, succeeded on an
interim basis by past board member George C. Casey. Four animal
protection division staff were laid off, including the shelter
services manager and training manager. All four positions remained
unfilled.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:

HOHENWALD, Tennessee–Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
cofounder Carol Buckley, ousted from the organization on March 17,
2010, in early April announced the formation of a new nonprofit
umbrella for her work called International Elephant Aid.
“Over the next year I will travel internationally seeking
projects and problems, brainstorming with others involved in elephant
welfare and assisting those in need,” Buckley posted to her personal
web site. “My goal is to be a resource, bringing to the table all
that my work has taught me over these past 36 years. Providing
sanctuary is a worldwide need, and now I plan to make it a reality.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2010:
YONKERS, N.Y.–New York state attorney general Andrew Cuomo
on March 9, 2010 won a court order disbanding the Yonkers SPCA.
“The court ordered all Yonkers SPCA members to surrender
their weapons, badges, and identification cards, and to forward
any assets to a legitimate organization that prevents animal abuse,”
reported New York Daily News staff writer Helen Kennedy.
Founded in 1912, the Yonkers SPCA in 1955 transferred
operations and assets to the Westchester SPCA and disbanded. In
2007, however, former Greenburgh police officer Sean Collins, 43,
revived the organization–on paper and at a web site.

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