An article from the San Francisco Gate has been making its way (several times over) through my inbox the past few days. The scandal: Nathan Winograd, former director of operations for the San Francisco SPCA, and his new book, "Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No-Kill Revolution in America".

At first take, it may seem Winograd is akin to those who say that the Holocaust never happened or that the Earth's population isn't booming. That's not the case.

Winograd isn't denying that there is a crisis in America's shelters, but in fact shifting the perspective - and the mantle of blame - from the notion of 'too few homes for shelter animals' to the very staff of these shelters, saying "If a community is still killing the majority of shelter animals, it is because the local ... shelter has fundamentally failed in its mission."

The article is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/02/petscol.DTL

I'm still digesting this, and have not read the book, so I am limited in my appraisal of Winograd's statements.