August 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Unless you’re in a state with lifetime registration, each year you are expected to pay your council an amount to register your dog/s (and sometimes cat/s). However, our Councils are largely misusing these funds. – Money is being added to overall council coffers, rather than spent on proactive programs to keep pets out of pounds. […]
Continue readingAugust 26, 2012Comments are closed.dogs
On Wednesday the 22nd August, Brax (a red Border Collie), and Bear (a Husky) escaped and became lost. Their family quickly realised they were missing and expected that being registered and microchipped the pair would be collected by council animal control, and returned to them. They phoned Moira Shire to see if they had been […]
Continue readingAugust 25, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
Victorian council rangers are finding people who’ve had their dog seized under new dog laws are (inconveniently) finding a voice on Facebook; Council workers enforcing Victoria’s dangerous dog legislation are being threatened by pet owners on social media websites. Victorian police are investigating a number of complaints made by the council law officers in Melbourne’s […]
Continue readingAugust 24, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
From ABC Victoria’s 7:30 Report tonight; Peter Walsh ~ So we’ve now been talking to Dogs Victoria, and Dogs Victoria are going to make available a panel of ‘breed experts’ and people scattered around Victoria who can assist councils in interpreting the Restricted Breed Standard, so that they make a ruling on a dog, there […]
Continue readingAugust 21, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Victorian Dog Laws
On the eve of the Victorian ‘pit bull’ amnesty ending on the 29th September 2011, the owner of a dog named Butch visited the Ballarat City Council offices to register her dog. She completed an application form, but found she was short on cash and couldn’t pay the registration fee. She told staff she would […]
Continue readingAugust 17, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, WA Dog Laws
A Boerboel (wiki) A call to include more dangerous dogs in restricted breed legislation is being made by WA Local Government Association president Troy Pickard. … he said the State Government could also look at adding Boerboel, a large mastiff breed from South Africa, to the list of restricted breeds. He rejected a view by […]
Continue readingAugust 16, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, WA Dog Laws
Western Australian pet owners are under yet another onslaught of ignorant and inhumane legislation courtesy of Local Government Minister John Castrilli. Not content to condemn hundreds of thousands of cats to a swift death in the local council pound, he has now set his sights on impounding hundreds of thousands of innocent pet dogs. Since […]
Continue readingAugust 14, 2012Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home, Victorian Dog Laws
From 30th September last year, Victoria became home to some of the most draconian legislation in the country. It allowed animal management officers to seize and kill unregistered dogs they deem to be ‘pit bulls’ or ‘of pit bull type’, kill dogs on site without impounding them, kill dogs after impoundment with no minimum impoundment […]
Continue readingAugust 7, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, dogs, No Kill
Some people who call themselves animal lovers claim that they want to see the end of killing in shelters, but still support laws which target ‘pit bulls’ and ‘pit bull type’ dogs just for being the breed they are. Just to be clear, these two positions are in direct conflict with each other. We will […]
Continue readingJuly 24, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, dogs, Lost Dogs Home
