March 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, shelter procedure
I’ve been trying to find a spare moment to blog out this presentation since it ran back in January, because it was simply awesome. Do you want to stop the tragic deaths of shelter cats, and cut your shelter’s cat intake dramatically and almost overnight? Maddie’s Institute presents Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out […]
Continue readingMarch 23, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
Toby – is available for adoption at the Rutherford (Newcastle) shelter. While an incredibly unflattering shot, he is one of the few animals who actually *has* a photo. …………….. Back in February the Land and Environment Court dismissed the Society of Companion Animal Rescuers (SoCares) appeal against Cessnock Council’s decision to outsource its animal pound […]
Continue readingMarch 16, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
“Learn about pet care” Mayor Anoulack Chanthivong feels the community is to blame for Campbelltown pound’s enormously high kill rate. Campbelltown pound is failing pets. A staggering 2,366 of their 2,593 unclaimed pets at its pound ended up dead last year. They have limited opening hours, refuse to work with rescue and release undesexed pets […]
Continue readingMarch 15, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, dogs, resistance
A blue heeler pup at Broken Hill Vet Clinic/pound Broken Hill, you have a problem. In 2006/07 you made the ‘worst of the worst’ list for NSW, killing 651 pets (or 75%) and appallingly you killed every single impounded cat. In 2007/08 you disgraced yourself again, killing even more animals – with 720 pets losing […]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
The City of Campbelltown has a population of 150,000 and a council run animal shelter which takes in about 3,600 pets a year. They were the focus of some understandably negative publicity, when council revealed in it’s 2009/10 annual report that it killed 2,269 of the 2,728 unclaimed pets at its pound. But it took […]
Continue readingFebruary 21, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, dogs
Kooda is one of two Cobram dogs that will be put down if its owners lose their case. In 2008, the Victorian government had a problem. The Bureau of Animal Welfare (BAW) Restricted Breed Panel was overturning two out of every three council decisions to seize (and seek approval to destroy) dogs. Of the 34 […]
Continue readingFebruary 17, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, resistance
Anyone who’s followed this blog knows the enormous disaster the ‘Who’s for Cats’ program has been for cats in the state of Victoria. Not only seeing a 50% increase in complaints about cats, and encouraging violence against them, but surging cat impoundments to record levels requiring millions of dollars worth of new infrastructure to ‘process’ […]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound
Individuals and community groups taking an interest in, and if required challenging, the action of local councils in regards to their companion animal management is vital in our drive to a No Kill Australia. Today, the Society of Companion Animal Rescuers (SoCares) is in court, objecting to their council’s decision to award the low kill […]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
It’s hard to imagine that just five months has passed, since the community of Geelong demanded the killing end at their local pound, the Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS). The organisation had been defending killing for decades, citing that they couldn’t stop killing animals because they were simply not savable, they were unsocialised puppies, there […]
Continue readingJanuary 18, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, resistance
Photo: BBC News The RSPCA UK message about free-roaming cats is simple; if it’s happy, leave it be. If the stray cat is not friendly, it may be feral or semi-feral. Feral and semi-feral cats are able to look after themselves and, so long as the feral cat is healthy, leaving it alone may be […]
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