October 3, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
The RSPCA Tasmania is consolidating its services as part of its plan to rebuild community support, after a decade or so of internal shenanigans. It announced yesterday that as part of this restructure it would reduce the scope of services it offered local councils; RSPCA general manager Peter West said the group wanted to shed responsibility […]
Continue readingSeptember 26, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home, RSPCA
I’ve been on holidays for a couple of weeks, so have gotten a little behind in these news updates. Lots to cover! New South Wales Look at all these photos of the beautiful, healthy, desexed! ear-tipped, stray cats… and they’re not in some foreign country with more progressive policies – they’re right here in Oz! […]
Continue readingAugust 29, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
At the end of last year, Whyalla Council (SA) used its local media to malign cats, with Ranger Services declaring the City had a “cat problem”. Cats in the city were to be considered a “class one pest”, and that anyone showing cats compassion by giving them a little bit of food were informed that they were breaking the law. In […]
Continue readingAugust 18, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
Once every four years, Councils in Victoria have to release their Domestic Animal Management Plans for review. This is a giant ass pain for Councils as it gives the public a brief opportunity to audit the performance of their local pound and animal management departments. And it’s usually not pretty. To help to deter […]
Continue readingAugust 16, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Monash City Council (Victoria) has 5,461 registered cats, 98% of which are de-sexed despite it currently not being a requirement in the City*. They are currently reviewing amongst other things, mandatory desexing. Because cat owners = irresponsible. Don’t be fooled by the figures which show practically all of them are doing the right thing and […]
Continue readingAugust 11, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Fraser Coast Regional Council/Hervey Bay pound So my email has been blowing up this morning. Gone viral is a series of seven photographs of dead dogs and cats laying discarded on the top of a skip bin and laying sprawled in kennels at the Hervey Bay (Fraser Coast Regional Council) pound. Warning – graphic photos at end […]
Continue readingAugust 8, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
In the kill-centric animal management system we have in Australia, the pets that usually get the needle are those whose owners either don’t care, or for some reason aren’t able to find their animal’s location within the timeframe set by that same system. That is, those pets who have no human advocate. These unnamed, unprotected pets […]
Continue readingAugust 4, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Campbelltown Pound dog (Image: The Daily Telegraph) The City of Campbelltown located less that an hour out of the Sydney CBD, has a population of around 150,000 people, and a council run animal shelter which takes in just shy of 4,000 pets a year. Back in 2009/10, thanks to some negative publicity from surrounding councils over […]
Continue readingAugust 1, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
Steve Coleman (Image: Blue Mountains Gazette) More than 150 local residents attended a meeting to protest the RSPCA NSW’s decision to sell off its local animal shelter and stop providing services to council. City residents claim they have ‘moral’ ownership of the property after fundraising for years to buy and build the facility, and that should […]
Continue readingJuly 25, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
The community of Mitchell (VIC) had a problem. There was a dog who seemed to have been running loose for a long time, currently evading capture. ‘Claudia’ as she would be dubbed, had been living off scraps fed to her by concerned community members who reported her plight to Council. The dog was very […]
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