November 28, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Greater Shepparton City Council has struck back at critics who say their kill rate is too high; Greater Shepparton City Council has responded to a Facebook post slamming the organisation’s pound (kill) rate. It says the rate dropped by 10 per cent in the last financial year and the council has recently started working with an animal […]
Continue readingNovember 20, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound
Most pets killed in Australia never even had their photo taken. Are we really doing ‘all we can’ to save their lives? Use your xmas donation this year to help PetRescue change this reality. Only 1% of Australia’s council pounds are utilising PetRescue’s free services to advertise their pets for adoption. Help us get them […]
Continue readingNovember 19, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound
“We need your help this Christmas to fix Australia’s pounds and make them a safe and sound place for all lost and homeless pets. By Christmas, PetRescue will have helped find forever homes for more than 250,000 rescue pets, from over 750 rescue groups and shelters nationwide. Now just imagine how many more lives […]
Continue readingNovember 12, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Campbelltown pound dogs (Image – The Daily Telegraph)I’ve written about Campbelltown pound before. Firstly, when it was found they killed practically everything that walked in their front door. Again, when the Mayor of the City came out and said that was ok because ‘irresponsible people’. There was the story of how they ‘lost’ someone’s microchipped […]
Continue readingNovember 7, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
The last year has seen more development in community-based pound programs than any year previous. When welfare advocates have been driving for this reform for in some cases literally decades, why has 2014 seen so much activity? What has changed? The pain point The pain point is the exact moment that resisting a […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound, RSPCA
Sometimes blogging is an absolute joy – pulling stats, meaty scientific papers and good-news stories and compiling them all together to make positive change, communicating on a subject you’re passionate about. Other times, it’s purging annoyance because many things have got on your tits all at once and you just have to get it out. That […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Renbury pound kills about one in every two cats that enter their facility. They accomplish over 2,000 dead cats a year. The only thing that keeps them from sustaining a near 100% kill rate, is a dedicated group of rescuers taking (around 30% of) the cats they want to kill, and instead placing them in […]
Continue readingOctober 16, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
An update on this video below… Bundaberg Regional Council has been forced to apologise after a video was posted on Facebook apparently showing council officers letting a dog out of its front yard and closing the gate on it. The video provoked a storm of criticism on social media. The officers were conducting a […]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
“This was my little dog (Choppie) that had been picked up and taken to the Macksville pound yard on Friday. I wasn’t allowed to get him out over the weekend so I had to stay the weekend to wait till today (Monday) to get him before I returned to QLD. When I went to […]
Continue readingOctober 11, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Anne Coleman and Sho-pan (Image – the Queensland Times) Finding new homes for pets who have owners who love them and want them back is an enormously stupid waste of our community’s animal management resources. Killing pets who have owners who want to reclaim them is deeply unethical. Which is why it would surprise […]
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