attitude

Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment’s additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be.” Bill Bryson As rescuers, working to save the lives of pets, you would expect that we’d be driving the charge to overhaul the animal sheltering process should it be failing […]

The backlash from rescuers to our xmas adoption campaign wasn’t entirely unexpected; it seems some old ideas die hard. There’s no way I’ll be fielding calls at xmas; I don’t want anyone getting one of my dogs as a present. Pets bought at xmas just end up surrendered. You’re encouraging people to be irresponsible. People […]

Price is a signal, a story, a situational decision that is never absolute. It’s just part of what goes into making a decision, no matter what we’re buying. Seth Godin I’ve written before about why I think ‘bargain’ rescue pets are a bad idea, but today over at the No Kill Nation blog respected rescuer […]

Considering the limited revenue available to non-profits and the incredibly limited resources available to animal rescue groups, should the many independent rescuers be working to consolidate their efforts and would we be more effective if we merged our operations? Less groups = less duplication of services + less overheads and stronger organisations with conceivably more […]

This is great! Check out the way this RSPCA is working in conjunction with a primary school to care for orphaned puppies… watch?v=QB8trkyKxfA

I adopted a gorgeous labrador cross to a family two months ago only to receive a phone call today from the local pound informing us that the new owners had surrendered her. The family presented themselves as nice professional people. They already had a dog who got along with this new girl and all in […]