January 15, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs
As seen on Twitter, a graphical representation of the problems at the LDH. Is this the ‘animal welfare’ system we’re happy to have?
Continue readingJanuary 12, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs
Image – The Newcastle Herald The RSPCA Rutherford shelter has for several years managed pound services for the suburbs of Maitland, Lake Macquarie and Newcastle (NSW). The pound had long been criticised by animal advocates for refusing to release animals to community rescue, for working to overturn minimum impound periods making it easier to kill […]
Continue readingJanuary 3, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing
Like all councils in Victoria, Kingston has had compulsory pet microchipping and registration since 2007. In 2008/09 Council had 6,529 registered cats in their area and were impounding less than one cat a day (266). Despite the low number of cats ending up in the pound, cat welfare groups pressured the council to look at […]
Continue readingDecember 23, 2011Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs
This morning, across the nation, council pounds are killing the dogs and cats in their care. Not because they’re sick. Not because they have behavioural problems. Not because the community doesn’t want to adopt them. But because it’s Christmas. Pounds who close from Sunday 25th December through to Tuesday 3rd January do not want to […]
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 19, 2011Comments are closed.attitude, council pound, No Kill
ABC’s 7.30 Report…
Continue readingAugust 18, 2011Comments are closed.council pound, dogs, resistance
When a … tragedy or random event hits, people look for someone to blame. If there’s no one to blame, sometimes they look for someone to hate, even if it is ultimately self-destructive. Seth Godin Last night a four-year-old girl was fatally attacked by a neighbour’s dog in Melbourne. According to the most detailed report, […]
Continue readingAugust 14, 2011Comments are closed.attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, No Kill, resistance
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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