December 10, 2009Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
December 10, 2009Comments are closed.marketing, shelter procedure
Don’t know what promotion your group should do this xmas? My advice; doing anything is better than doing nothing. Don’t over think it, just ask yourself question; how can we get people into our shelter this holiday season? *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. Pets Haven Animal Shelter in Woodend, Victoria is open until 10pm tonight. Talk about going above […]
Continue readingDecember 9, 2009Comments are closed.cats
Take one long term cat colony, add a compassionate community already feeding and removing adoptables and you have a suburb ripe for a TNR program. Unfortunately Parramatta Council is unable to see any other option, but to have the cats removed; Cats have been seen around Parramatta Town Hall but the biggest problem seems to […]
Continue readingDecember 9, 2009Comments are closed.dogs
There are millions of dogs living in millions of homes in Australia, most of which will never give their owners anything but pleasure. But for a handful of families who experience a dog bite, it can have a devestating effect on the family simply because those most at risk are small children. Noah Springall (right) […]
Continue readingDecember 8, 2009Comments are closed.cats
I was asked recently to explain TNR to someone who was interested but had never heard of the term. It’s always interesting to have to take the 10,000 word essay you could write on a topic and try and condense it into a short few paragraphs, elevator pitch style. This is my effort trying to […]
Continue readingDecember 7, 2009Comments are closed.cats
It’s a shame that animal welfare groups can’t stop walking blindly into the same old mistakes again and again. Once more with feeling; compulsory registration (and desexing and microchipping) is too expensive to actually enforce and only serves to enrage and empower cat haters into anti-cat behaviour. Spike in traps after cat registration Demand for […]
Continue readingDecember 4, 2009Comments are closed.cats
When you have the situation that impounded cats are nearly always killed, it makes little sense to bring about legislation which increases the number of them impounded. However, for the spittle-spewing, compulsory registration/microchipping/desexing brigade, owner-targeted legislation was never about bringing down shelter kill rates. If it were they would be heeding the ever-growing international evidence […]
Continue readingDecember 2, 2009Comments are closed.dogs
Hat tip to KC Dog blog for his great posts this week about the inefficacy of BSL around the world: Ontario struggles with BSL … residents have irrational fears of ‘pit bulls’, but can’t identify them, they make calls about non-problem dogs, that aren’t ‘pit bulls’, that tie up a lot of animal control resources. […]
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