Getting the message

I blog because I get delighted, or outraged, or astounded, or sweary. I blog for the pets. I blog because often the things I hear our animal welfare leaders say, don’t correspond with the actual figures or the truth and this makes me cross. And I blog to stand up for the majority of pet owners in Australia, who are loving and responsible and continually seem to be losing their fight to keep pets without draconian restriction.

Because Saving Pets really is about the things that make me passionate, I hadn’t looked at the visit rate in literally a year. So when JB hooked me up with my Google analytics password I was pleased to see that over the year;

I thought cool! 5,000 visitors a year, is about 500 a month. And you know what? I was happy with that. I’m certainly not able to talk in person to 500 people a month about No Kill. So it all feels worthwhile.

No Kill is a new concept in Australia, in that practically none of the major animal welfare groups want to acknowledge its existence. There are still pounds in Australia running without an animal rehoming program of any sort (and kill pets with firearms), yet still have the support of the RSPCA to blame ‘overpopulation’ for their animal management woes. The public continue to pump money into multi-million dollar high-kill pounds thinking more money is the key to saving lives. And cats and ‘pit bull’ dogs continue to die by the hundreds of thousands because the major animal welfare groups have failed to stand up for their protection.

500 people a month learning that their animal welfare donation dollars can literally either be spent on saving the lives of pets, or on over-anaesthetising them to death and cremating their bodies – seems like a good thing to me.

500 people a month are learning how to drill down past the excuses and rhetoric and starting to look at the detail that actually matters  – how many pets survive the experience of being impounded at the facility.

500 people a month who are able to question their local council pound’s operating procedures and outcomes. 500 people a month busting the myth of pet ‘overpopulation’ in Australia.

So if you are one of the 500, thank you for caring about the pets. Thank you for discussing these issues with your friends and family. Thank you for adopting rescue pets. And thank you for always fighting for the lives of pets, even when it’s hard, even when it’s unpopular, and even when you’re the only one speaking up against death as an appropriate way to manage our pets – our family members.

And there is some really good news

Turns out I have no idea how to use Google Analytics. JB showed me that I was looking at the stats over a month.

The real stats for a year to date are this;

80% of visitors to Saving Pets are Australian, and most of you live in Victoria. Suggesting that Victorians are some of the most dissatisfied in the nation with their current animal management systems.

So No Kill peeps, turns our we’re in good company. There is a new movement of brave animal advocates taking a stand in their communities and YOU are the driving force which will save the lives of pets.

You number in the thousands, so know you are no longer alone.

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