March 7, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
Charlie, Sharni (front) and a family friend (back)… In early November last year, Shannon’s two family dogs Charlie and Sharni escaped their yard and despite frantic efforts to find them, got themselves into big trouble. They killed a cat owned by someone in the neighbourhood. The dogs were impounded by Frankston Council and held at […]
Continue readingMarch 4, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Image: Header from the Nambucca Council Media Release. It’s certainly one of the more interesting city slogans I’ve heard, and I’m not sure how it would look on a car numberplate, but Nambucca Shire Council General Manager, Michael Coulter has issued the following statement in response to online criticism of their pound’s near […]
Continue readingFebruary 23, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Glenn and his dogs Bundy & Rocco (Image – The Daily Telegraph) Glenn is an animal lover, who took in a friend’s two dogs temporarily. As sometimes happens, six months later they were still in his care. One day, one of the dogs ‘Rusty’, slipped out a gate that had been left open, and […]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Greater Dandenong has a problem. Despite passing compulsory microchipping and registration laws… Greater Dandenong senior animal management officer Richard Asquith said about 75 per cent of cats impounded by council were feral. “It’s a constant challenge to try to reverse that trend, and they get put to sleep because we can’t put them in any […]
Continue readingFebruary 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Back in November, two little pups were collected by a good samaritan and delivered to the pound provider in Broken Hill, The Broken Hill Veterinary Clinic (NSW). Tammy and Patchy were well cared for, and in good health. They were just five months old and belonged to a 6 year old girl. The […]
Continue readingFebruary 5, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
From the NT News… A man is devastated after his beloved pet dog was put down by Darwin council just four days after she escaped from his front yard. Tony Rohl said he was overseas helping his friend’s sick child with medical treatment when both his dogs – a bull mastiff cross and sharpei cross […]
Continue readingJanuary 31, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, NSW Taskforce
A 14-month-old American Staffy – let’s call him Buddy – was visiting a friends house, when he escaped by popping out of a fly-screened window. Thankfully, the local ranger from Leeton Shire Council collected Buddy after a neighbour reported him as wandering lost. Buddy was microchipped and his details were current. This should have meant […]
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Back in November the Tasmanian government’s Animal Welfare Advisory Committee closed public consultation of a new welfare standard for dogs kept by ‘Domestic Animal Businesses’ including pounds and shelters. Some of the paper’s recommendations included: – requiring vet care for sick or injured dogs. – specifying a minimum pound enclosure sizes for large dogs of […]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
Early on the 5th September, Peter Giotto, a businessman and animal rescuer from Sydney, found a dog. The 1 year old German Shepherd pup dubbed ‘Kiki’ was collected from the side of the road after being hit by a car and suffering a broken leg. Peter was able to lift the pup from the ground […]
Continue readingJanuary 7, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
The first media reported oopsie kill of 2014… Tara, a five-year-old German Shepherd, escaped from the backyard of Tania’s Scarness home along with the family’s other dog, Diesel. As sometimes happens when dogs get loose, Tara got into trouble with the neighbours – allegedly having an altercation with another dog. She was taken to the […]
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