When you treat the pet loving public like the enemy, and defend high kill rates in the face of alternatives, you put yourself at odds with the very community you are meant to be serving.
You may be able to dodge and dive, and threaten, and send in the lawyers and delete comments and ban and try and discredit, but once the community start realising that their experience wasn’t happening in isolation – that other people have seen healthy pets be killed, other rescues have been denied access to save death row pets, that other people have had their pets ‘oopsie’ killed… then a ripple that goes out over your community that can never been undone.
Today is the Lost Dogs Home Pet Fest protest – the very community who loves pets, and would be the greatest champions of a life-saving shelter, the most devoted volunteers and the biggest financial contributors – are instead pooling their resources into protesting the indefensible 55% kill rate for unclaimed dogs, 80%+ kill rate for unclaimed cats.
This is a live thread for the day.
Banners from Bendigo Animal Welfare & Community Services
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Protest (credit MJ)
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Dogs for adoption (on the biggest day of the year)
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See also:
A friend to pets? A review of policies and procedures of Melbourne’s Lost Dogs Home
