January 5, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, customer service, mandatory desexing, shelter procedure
I’ve blogged about Bill Bruce and the City of Calgary before, but this video although nearly two hours long, is a must see, as every word of it is pure genuis. Bill Bruce is the Director of Animal and Bylaw Services at the City of Calgary, whose animal control department has achieved a +90% level […]
Continue readingJanuary 4, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing
A gem from Dr Kersti Seksel at the Cat Alliance of Australia’s yearly symposium – as always astoundingly fascinating and genuinely entertaining: At the end is the full video, but here are some snippets of goodness: Mandatory cat desexing We talk about cat overpopulation, I think that’s a misnomer. It’s shelter overpopulation. I’ll show you […]
Continue readingJanuary 3, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing
When animal welfare groups lobby for cat welfare, we generally campaign to enact a host of cat control measures; compulsory registration, microchipping, desexing and confinement laws. These we say, are the key to reducing cat euthanasia and neglect. But what happens in a community when everything we wish for… comes true? One council in Victoria […]
Continue readingJanuary 2, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
I’m just more and more impressed with the WA Rangers’ Association’s approach to dangerous dog management. First, they came out as vocal opponents to WA’s proposed pit bull targeting legislation earlier in the year. Now they’ve drawn attention to a dangerous dog incident that involved two large breed dogs in country WA. The owner of […]
Continue readingJanuary 1, 2010Comments are closed.cats
One of the arguments used by groups who resist TNR programs, is that managed colonies will not get smaller over time – the irony being that doing nothing about these colonies guarantees cat numbers will stay constant. Demonstrating the effectiveness of a well managed TNR program, is news of the sad passing of “Zorro”, the […]
Continue readingJanuary 1, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, pets are now twice as common as children in Australian households, with 63% of homes having a pet. More than ever before people are treating their pets as their children, lobbying for their right to take them to the beach, to cafes, to the movies and no longer […]
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