ABSTRACT
In May of 2006, Carter Luke was appointed President and CEO of the MSPCA–Angell. He was formerly the MSPCA’s Executive Vice President and Vice President for Animal Protection. Luke, as he prefers to be called, began his professional life as an elementary school teacher in Wisconsin before becoming shelter manager of Coulee Region Humane Society in LaCrosse. Before joining the MSPCA in 1985, he was an executive director of the Dane County Humane Society in Madison. He is a founding board member of both the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy and the Massachusetts Animal Coalition, and is a member of the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium. For more than twenty years, he has been extensively involved in research areas such as pet-population dynamics, free-roaming cats, cruelty and violence toward animals, dangerous dogs, and animal hoarding. He has published widely on issues relating to the interaction between humans and animals, including exploring the roots of violence directed toward animals.
