October 24, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, shelter procedure
Notes from a YouTube video from Michigan’s 1st No Kill Conference. More videos can be seen here. Susanne Kogut, Executive Director of the open admission No Kill Charlottesville SPCA, details how she drastically reduced killing and created a No Kill community (saving 90% of the animals) in a very short period of time. Under her […]
Continue readingOctober 17, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, council pound, resistance, shelter procedure
Photo: The Geelong Advertiser Above is a photo of the weekend’s protests by animal lovers, following the release of video footage of pets being killed at the Geelong Animal Welfare Society. These members of the ‘irresponsible public’ met on the stairs of City Hall, calling for such outrageous demands as, a new system where volunteers […]
Continue readingSeptember 29, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy
There is a difference between advocacy and adoptions, and understanding this key to an effective message. If a person is considering adopting a pet, what they need is support, encouragement and praise for their decision (positive) Yet, often when people come to rescue to adopt, via our websites or facebook pages, we present them with […]
Continue readingSeptember 23, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, No Kill, shelter procedure
Widely celebrated as Australia’s answer to the No Kill movement of the US, the ‘Getting to Zero’ (G2Z) program has been, being developed by the Animal Welfare League of Queensland and claims to “detail the principles, structures and strategies for achieving zero killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs”. The AWLQ seems like an […]
Continue readingSeptember 9, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude
Richard Avanzino, President Maddie’s Fund USA – Building collaborative effort and the importance of reporting
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Mitch Schneider, Director Washoe County Animal Management Services USA Getting to Zero through Proactive Animal Management Programs – a Win-Win Approach to Animal Control
Continue readingSeptember 7, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill, shelter procedure
Robyn Kippenberger, Richard Avanzino & Joy Verrinder NDN Opening – G2Z elements
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August 12, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, No Kill
Up until just a couple of years ago, pounds were able to explain away poor performance simply by saying their community was ‘irresponsible’; that they were bad pet owners, that they were buying the wrong pets on impulse, that they were not desexing their pets, that they were giving up and abandoning pets too easily, […]
Continue readingJuly 30, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, council pound, dogs, No Kill
Earlier in the year I wrote about the stats coming out of NSW, which showed that not only does dog ‘overpopulation’ not exist in the state, but that small changes in council policy could see shelter killing eliminated overnight. However, the figures I was quoting were being collated by independent groups which can sometimes mean […]
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