January 4, 2011Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, mandatory desexing, No Kill, resistance
From Canada’s International Summit for Urban Animal Strategies…
Continue readingDecember 20, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing
Wyndham Council are having ongoing trouble with their cat laws; The council has issued 239 fines for unregistered dogs and just 13 for cats, from April to September this year. Based on the $227 fine, the total fines for unregistered dogs was almost $55,000 and, for cats, less than $3000. This council has only tried […]
Continue readingDecember 1, 2010Comments are closed.advocacy, attitude, mandatory desexing
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” ~Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride Animal welfare groups often talk about using ‘incentives’ to change owner behaviour and improve the situation for pets. And used correctly, incentives do have a powerful effect on human behaviour. But often we mix […]
Continue readingDecember 1, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance, shelter procedure
Many cat ‘welfare’ campaigners advocate for things that are counterintuitive to improving cat welfare. For example, supporting Councils efforts to round up and kill free-roaming cats. Or advocating to punish disadvantaged pet owners and see their cats impounded, rather than the services to help them become compliant. The kinds of things which increase intakes and […]
Continue readingNovember 23, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing
Circle of Blame Step 1. Have your community alert you to unacceptably high cat kill rates. Step 2. Blame ‘the irresponsible public’ for the numbers Step 2. Provide cat traps Step 3. Blame ‘the irresponsible public’ for the surge in impounds Step 4. Send cats to pounds with a 90%+ kill rate Step 5. Blame […]
Continue readingNovember 4, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, No Kill
News today that despite having mandatory desexing for over ten years, the ACT have failed to see a decline in cat numbers: The RSPCA is calling on the ACT Government to put more funding into its cat desexing laws. ACT laws require cats to be desexed but the RSPCA says there has been a steady […]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing, resistance
Kingston in Victoria has been held up by cat welfare advocates as one of the ‘good guys’ introducing in 2008 compulsory registration of pets over 3 months old and the requirement that all pets be desexed before registration… or mandatory desexing by stealth. Did Kingston have a cat ‘problem’? Well according to their Domestic Animal […]
Continue readingSeptember 16, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, mandatory desexing, No Kill, resistance
A regional scheme provided pensioners and low-income earners with assistance to get their animals desexed. Guess what happened next? No really. Guess what happened. A dramatic decline in the number of animals being impounded. Here’s the article because it’s just so good: Scheme helping animals In conjunction with the Walgett Veterinary Clinic and the Walgett […]
Continue readingJune 24, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance, shelter procedure
Cat in a cage trap, QLD: Lonely Planet images Is anyone else seeing a trend? From Queensland last year; The Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008 was passed on December 11 2008 and is designed to encourage responsible pet ownership by introducing compulsory registration and identification. The Act took effect throughout south-east Queensland councils […]
Continue readingJune 9, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance
Cat groups in Western Australia are celebrating, as the pledge for statewide cat laws was today unveiled by the government; Cat Haven operations manager Roz Robinson said she hoped to see laws soon to stop thousands of cats and kittens being euthanised, better identify lost animals and reduce problems caused by unsterilised cats. (ref) Local […]
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