October 4, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing
Say it with me; if you want people to adopt your pets, you have to offer more than euthanasia statistics Sad end awaits unwanted pets Cassie Walker believes by purchasing a dog or a cat from the RSPCA the number of pets being put down will drop. In the last financial year 909 cats and […]
Continue readingSeptember 29, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, marketing, No Kill, volunteers
Image: Labhlakshmi.com Each spring and summer across the country, thousands of cats and kittens enter a shelter system that is already overloaded. To avoid having to kill the majority of these animals, there are things shelters can be doing in the months leading up to this busy season. Here’s a plan that any shelter could […]
Continue readingSeptember 28, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, volunteers
You have some dogs that need homes. Do you a) kill them or b) host an adoption event on a Sunday and tell people about it? RSPCA adoption day a hit Gladstone folk opened their hearts and their homes yesterday by adopting six orphaned dogs at the RSPCA monthly dog adoption day. The fourth adoption […]
Continue readingSeptember 27, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, new media, No Kill
If you haven’t already; check out this OK Go clip, featuring some amazing rescue dogs (background on the clip here); Not only is it an absolutely fantastic hat tip to rescue, with clearly happy dogs doing ‘doggy’ things, this video is a bit of a microcosm for what is happening right now in the rescue […]
Continue readingSeptember 10, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, dogs, shelter procedure, volunteers
This is just fantastic; More than 100 dogs per year will be given a second lease at life thanks to inmates at the John Morony Correctional Complex. NSW Minister for Corrective Services, Phillip Costa, joined Londonderry MP, Allan Shearan, to launch the initiative last week, which will see selected John Morony inmates assist in the […]
Continue readingAugust 21, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, council pound, No Kill, shelter procedure
According to their website, the Cooma-Monaro Shire Council is based in the country town of Cooma, New South Wales, perfectly situated only one hour from the Mountains, Canberra and the Coast, and only 4 hours to Sydney. A regional location, it has a population of 6,587 people and a small animal pound. It would be […]
Continue readingAugust 15, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, customer service, resistance
This? Or this? From a WA animal shelter’s ‘Adoption Adviser’; The great offence that these potential adopters committed? To need some support in working to getting landlord approval to have a pet. When people willing to open their hearts and families to a rescue pet feel the only option they have is to lie to […]
Continue readingJune 29, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, cats, council pound, customer service, RSPCA, shelter procedure
… that cats should be indoors, that cats should be registered and desexed by law and that free-roaming cats need to be trapped for their own good; then you can’t say ‘it’s not our job’ when they ask you for help. Sad abandoned cats cause concerns at Quakers Hill (Cat pic) It’s hard to imagine […]
Continue readingJune 8, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
The Lost Dogs Home is again calling for a ‘pet owner licencing scheme’ on the back of their efforts to develop a short pre-adoption quiz for people adopting from their shelter (I know, screening potential adopters before adoption – it’s ‘revolutionary’). “Pet Licences issued by The Lost Dogs’ Home should be made mandatory across Australia”. […]
Continue readingJune 6, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
In today’s Sydney Sun-Herald, is a series of articles about the RSPCA and other animal welfare group’s efforts to have the sale of pets through pet shops banned. > 250,000 healthy cats and dogs killed each year > No homes for them > Pet industry ‘needs regulation’ Tighter legislation is needed to regulate dog and […]
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