The shelter where I work took in 694 animals last year. Every day, we face animal cruelty – and communicating the crisis can feel impossibleThis piece was commissioned with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. It contains descriptions of animal abuseMonday mornings at the Mendocino Coast Humane Society, the northern California animal shelter where I work part-time, are chaotic.The frenzied beeping of anesthesia monitoring equipment echoes as I dodge Coco, one of the resident... Read this story
