October 21, 2013Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
Brisbane City Council has described media reports featuring stats obtained from their own council via Right to Information laws, as “grossly inaccurate” and “misleading”. However, Council has failed to provide the community any of their own figures, instead saying figures would be released in the Lost Dogs Home Annual Report sometime in November. Now, the […]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2013Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home
Please share this. We have to make the killing stop. “The Lost Dogs Home’s figures show it killed 1867 unclaimed dogs and cats, almost four times as many as it re-homed, within nine months of taking over Brisbane’s Bracken Ridge and Willawong pounds in October 2011… kill rates for unclaimed dogs and cats in Brisbane […]
Continue readingSeptember 28, 2013Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the Lost Dogs Home management of Brisbane Pound, please find below the outcomes for dogs by breed. These are the animals which have had their outcomes confirmed at the time the Right to Information report was printed off (around August 2013). By counting dogs as a number, […]
Continue readingSeptember 27, 2013Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
I’ve sourced the impound stats from Brisbane City Council under Freedom of Information (Right to Information). I will be following this post up with more months and comparisons, but I just wanted to get some of this info ‘out there’ as it is simply too important not to share asap. The Lost Dogs […]
Continue readingAugust 16, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, Lost Dogs Home
Stonnington City Council has for nearly three decades, been working with The Save-A-Dog Scheme. Save-A-Dog Scheme has a no kill philosophy and seeks to re-home every animal that comes into its care. Save-A-Dog Scheme believes that the dichotomy of a dog being “Man’s Best Friend” on the one hand and an unwanted article for destruction on the other […]
Continue readingJuly 21, 2013Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
Pet microchips are an excellent tool. However, despite being lauded by many high-kill shelters, they in reality only serve only one purpose – identification. They don’t eliminate shelter killing. Nor are they some kind of gold star predictor to an owner being ‘good’ or ‘bad’, or deserving of their pet back. They are simply a […]
Continue readingJuly 12, 2013Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home, No Kill
The Lost Dogs Home currently provides pound services to the city of Darebin. – In 2010, 276 unclaimed dogs were left at the facility. 85 were rehomed, while 169 were killed. – In 2011, 231 unclaimed dogs were left at the Lost Dogs Home. 82 were rehomed, while 130 were killed. – In 2012, 204 […]
Continue readingMay 27, 2013Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home
The Wicks family were stunned when while watching the Mike Larkan’s Melbourne ‘Give a Dog A Home’ segment on the Channel 10 News, they saw the their beloved whippet, Flash, who had been missing for nine months. “It was one of those things that, if one moment was different, it wouldn’t have ever happened. Flash […]
Continue readingMarch 29, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound, Lost Dogs Home, RSPCA, shelter procedure
In the late 1970’s in Victoria, debate raged over the killing of pound animals using a machine known as a ‘Lethanair’ chamber. The ‘Lethanair’ machine was a decompression chamber, which allowed the bulk killing of dogs. Today, we consider decompression as an unacceptable method of euthanasia, as these chambers were designed to produce decompression […]
Continue readingMarch 19, 2013Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home, Victorian Dog Laws
Born in September 2009, pup Bobo was a surprise gift to his owner, from his girlfriend. Bobo’s father was an American Staffordshire Terrier and mum was a Johnson’s Bulldog. In his short life, his owner loved and took care of him. He went to the vet. He had never strayed or become lost. And he […]
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