May 5, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs
Cats Cat abuse is rife in Victoria. RSPCA Victoria’s inspectorate services manager Greg Boland labelled the attack “cowardly” and “extremely disturbing”. RSPCA figures tallied 1572 incidents of cruelty against cats in the 2008-09 financial year; up more than 50 on the previous year. But in the ultimate effort ‘blaming the victim’; Mr Boland said Victoria’s […]
Continue readingMay 3, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
While other parts of the world are revoking their breed bans because they’ve failed to make the community safer, chewed up millions of dollars in resources and killed innocent people’s, innocent pets; Onatario’s BSL Failings are not isolated to Brampton (28th April) Streator, IL repeals breed restrictions (23rd April) Scotland Parliament passes bill to repeal […]
Continue readingApril 30, 2010Comments are closed.dogs, resistance
ACA this week, told the heartbreaking story of a show breeder of chihuahuas who lost five of his beloved animals, because a pack of often roaming staffies finally managed to get themselves into trouble. They’d escaped through property fences plenty of times before but on the occasion in question last year, they bounded more than […]
Continue readingApril 28, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Gotta love this… The RSPCA found new homes for more Staffordshire bull terriers than any other type of dog last year. The animal charity said it rehoused 507 of the 615 “staffies” and crosses it had taken into its 13 regional centres. The high number needing new homes was in part down to their popularity […]
Continue readingApril 23, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Bramption (US), home of Brittany and Rambo two dogs who were seized from their owner for being ‘pit bulls’, and who after 3 months and $20,000 worth of legal fees were release because they weren’t, has been using the same approach to pit bull management, that is gaining so much momentum here in Oz. An […]
Continue readingApril 19, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, shelter procedure
… in a lovely visual format. Almost makes you forget for a moment, that the graphs are showing the end of almost 100,000 lives. Our priority, as the leading animal welfare organisation in the country, is to ensure that we provide stray and abandoned cats with the highest level of care (ref). As you can […]
Continue readingApril 16, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Thirteen year old Royce, the dog that had lived without incident with his owner until Blacktown Animal Control Officers deemed him to be a ‘pit bull’ and seized him, has been returned home! “I’m ecstatic; I just felt elation when told I could take him home,” Mr Coulter said. “He’s my best friend; the only […]
Continue readingApril 8, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
If professional animal management officers can’t reliably identify a ‘pit bull’, what hope does a person on the street have? If the dog is big, dark and causes a problem in the community, regardless of the breed, the people involved are likely to call it a ‘pit bull’. And given an emotionally delivered ‘pit bull’ […]
Continue readingApril 7, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Unless you’re a ‘pit bull’ owner it’s likely that you’ve not spent much time considering whether breed specific laws will ever effect you. However, the story of Tango should be enough to convince anyone that there are literally hundreds of thousands of dogs of all breeds under risk from these laws. Tango and his owners […]
Continue readingMarch 21, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Determining a dog’s likelihood of aggression by “breed” rather than basing it on their actual behaviour continues to see pets seized from peoples homes who have never caused a problem for their owner or their community. Take the story of 13 year old Royce (13! A dog who should be enjoying his twilight years at […]
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