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Mary and the shelters

Mary Hart, longtime volunteer with dogs at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society; its current iteration, Humane Animal Rescue Pittsburgh (HARP); and Sable Kennel, is the first to step forward to talk with me about a controversial and important subject around here, and that is leadership and practices at HARP in the past and possibly today. In addition to the informational links I usually provide along with my interviews, I have also compiled some data from HARP and the other major local shelter, Animal Friends. I pulled the data from each organization’s latest annual reporting, which is 2019 for Animal Friends and 2020 for HARP. The data, both financial and intakes and outcomes, won’t be perfectly comparable for reasons I’ll share on the web page with the data, but some information is better than none. And, of course, as always, the first-person experiences of my guest give us a perspective we can’t get anywhere else.