May 26, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Why do pets die in shelters? I no longer believe in the ‘too many pets, not enough homes’ reasoning because I can’t make the math of hundreds of pets being sold by pet shops, in the newspaper and on the internet each day, gel with the idea that no one wants the pets we have. […]
Continue readingMay 23, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, customer service, dogs, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure, volunteers
The New Zealanders might have just overtaken Australia in the race to modernised animal sheltering industry. Over 125 years ago, New Zealand opened its first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or SPCA. Today, proving that even an ‘old’ organisation can lead the way in modern thinking, they have pledged their dedication to […]
Continue readingApril 23, 2010Comments are closed.attitude
Seth Godin’s book Linchpin changed my life. He has riffed out pretty much the whole lot and given it away free. No, not just given it away, asks people to share it. So I can’t recommend this highly enough. The April Linchpin Session (click)
Continue readingApril 22, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
First up, the blog post of the year; Fighting the inevitable: The propaganda war against no-kill People are not stupid; they understand the difference between “killing” and “euthanasia.” And the no-kill movement is not about what individual shelters do, but about a community-based effort to develop non-lethal animal population management practices nationwide. And it’s not […]
Continue readingApril 12, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, customer service, resistance
There’s lots of talk lately of licencing schemes for dog owners, to counter high numbers of ‘irresponsible owners’. The Lost Dogs Home recently introduced its own pilot pet ownership licencing scheme, while the RSPCA have been working to bring in ‘responsible dog ownership’ legislation in an effort to reduce the number of dogs abused and […]
Continue readingMarch 29, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance
It’s a great word isn’t it? Misanthrope mis·an·thrope –noun a hater of humankind. One of the things that most attracted me to the No Kill movement, was the idea that we should be challenging those things we think to be true by taking in and observing the success of others. But one of the hurdles […]
Continue readingMarch 27, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing
Image from gaping void Followers of this blog will know that I’ve been working with an organisation to improve their adoptions. One of the biggest changes they’ve had to make, is in the language they use when they promote their pets. Before, their language was negative and designed to highlight the flaws in the pet, […]
Continue readingMarch 26, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, customer service, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Check out this CEO Update from the latest RSPCA ACT e-newsletter. Doesn’t it just make you want to dance and sing?! (bolding mine) From the CEO… As CEO people often ask me if it is sad working at RSPCA. My response is always the same, no. RSPCA is a happy, warm and supportive place to […]
Continue readingMarch 21, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
Pet owners in orange are more ‘irresponsible’ than most says animal management in the city: More cats and dogs are being impounded or abandoned in Orange than most other towns and cities, with over a third of all animals going into our RSPCA shelter never making it out alive. “There’s no doubt the city has […]
Continue readingMarch 16, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, resistance
Here’s a little trick I want you to try. Walk into your next team project meeting and say to everyone there; “Fuck you lot. By my calculations you’re not only ignorant, but determined to see us fail. From now on you’re not getting a say – I’ll be telling you exactly how to work and […]
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