Back in October, I reported the Board of Directors of ACCT Philly had decided to appoint a single executive director…
[Editor’s note: In November 2021, I reported on Saint, a pit bull mix who was wrongfully destroyed at ACCT Philly,…
For those of you not into animal welfare, skip this one as I indulge myself. I have been using my…
Everything old is new again. In the decade since ACCT Philly started operations, I have been in the city animal…
The other shoe has dropped on ACCT Philly, the city’s animal control agency, with a suit filed by Tiffany LaVelle,…
First, the good news: Over the years, the number of animals being euthanized at the city animal shelter has dropped…
America elects people to the House of Representatives every two years, and Philadelphia selects a leader for ACCT Philly on…
Every so often journalists get caught in a time trap, when the facts of a story change before it can…
I hope this doesn’t come across as a desperate attempt to find a silver lining in a dark cloud, meaning…
Aurora Velazquez is the fifth executive director of ACCT Philly, the city’s animal shelter, since 2012. “Does that worry you?,”…
