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The great and powerful LDH

February 2, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

 “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain…”   There’s been massive media coverage surrounding the Lost Dogs Home’s performance. Unfortunately for the LDH, this current outpouring of community anger is not simply a small PR hiccup – it’s a complete and total shift in the questions the public is asking; but also what […]

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What now for the Lost Dogs Home?

February 1, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  A full month into 2015 and still no news from the Lost Dogs Home regarding their absent CEO. Of the seven board members, two have now resigned (Scovell & Crossley). Other board members including the Acting Manager and Board Chairperson Andrew Tribe, are now on-site regularly trying to determine strategy and calm unsettled staff. How does […]

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Lost Dogs Home vigil and broken trust

January 25, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

Outside the Lost Dogs Home lay floral tributes to the pets who have lost their lives.   A vigil held yesterday, saw hundreds of people visit the Lost Dogs Home to lay a floral tribute to the pets who have lost their live unnecessarily, and to call for the resignation of organisation’s board and management. […]

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Where the hell is Graeme Smith?

January 22, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  Today, the Chairman of the Lost Dogs Home Andrew Tribe defended the Home against allegations that the organisation maintains a ‘kill culture’; Andrew Tribe – “In the past, and I’m talking in the years past, yes we used to keep them (dogs) for a minimum of eight days and then many of them were […]

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Tipping point

January 21, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  There is a massive backlash (again) to the high kill rates of the Lost Dogs Home (again) after they oopsie-killed pets (again). So strong has the backlash been on social media this time, that the organisation issued a statement from Andrew Tribe, Chair, The Lost Dogs’ Home, in part; For years our staff on […]

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The Lost Dogs Home – a quick and dirty research guide

January 19, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  A LOT of people are talking about the Lost Dogs Home today and many are contacting me asking for more background info. This page is to help people take a short, or a deep, look at the history of the Home. Happy reading!   Brief; A friend to pets? A review of policies and […]

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Angus

January 18, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home

* * * * *Update 20th January: Eating crow Article title ‘Angus Needs to go Home’ changed to ‘Angus’. Angus hasn’t gone home. He’s not on the couch sleeping as his owner told me last night. He’s not happy and healthy at home – hanging out with his family. He’s still at the Lost Dogs Home. […]

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The Lost Dogs Home still stuck in a brutal past

January 13, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home

  One of the basic tenets of animal ‘sheltering’ is to offer pets shelter. If something goes wrong with the pet/owner relationship, shelters are the ones the community expects – and pays handsomely – to step in and protect the animals. Sometimes this will be because a pet is lost. Sometimes it is because the pet is […]

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Lost Dogs Home finally adopting out more dogs than they’re killing

December 1, 2014Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  The Lost Dogs Home again achieves what can only be described as a glacial rate of operational improvement…   Highlights include; – that they finally managed to adopt out more dogs than they kill (two years running – woo!)… but only by a smidge. – that 70% – or seven out of every ten […]

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Australian rescue news

September 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! […]

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