May 24, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing, new media, No Kill, shelter procedure
A man walks into your shelter and drops off a canary in a box. Do you a) recognise that you don’t have any aviary facilities, so do the ‘kindest thing’ and kill the bird. The man should have been a more responsible owner! or b) post the bird to your Facebook fan page of over […]
Continue readingMay 23, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, customer service, dogs, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure, volunteers
The New Zealanders might have just overtaken Australia in the race to modernised animal sheltering industry. Over 125 years ago, New Zealand opened its first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or SPCA. Today, proving that even an ‘old’ organisation can lead the way in modern thinking, they have pledged their dedication to […]
Continue readingMay 19, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill
How Disneyland shows compassion and care for free-roaming cats and is reaping the benefits in return; After dark, the dirty work at Disneyland begins LA Times, May 02, 2010 Years ago — no one seems to know when — feral cats began to sneak into the park, living among the park’s trees and shrubs during […]
Continue readingMay 18, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill
Bob Kerridge, New Zealand’s best known champion of the animals has this month been chosen as the National President of the Royal New Zealand SPCA. The article below shows just how he’s helped make compassion for pets, a community concern… Cause of the cat people New Zealand Herald, March 2009 Bob Kerridge called and the […]
Continue readingMay 17, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill
From Nathan Winograd’s blog: Saving 100% of Baby Kittens For the last few years, Michael Linke, the head of the RSPCA in the Australian Capital Territory, an open admission animal control shelter, has been implementing the No Kill Equation and has saved 93% of all dogs. Last October, he attended a workshop I did at […]
Continue readingApril 26, 2010Comments are closed.No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
I’ve been blogging for a little over two years now and one of the biggest hurdles I’ve found to strategic thought about animal welfare in Australia, is a lack of available data. It’s not an enormous ask in the technology age; pets are registered and microchipped, incoming stray pets are recorded in computer databases, and […]
Continue readingApril 22, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
First up, the blog post of the year; Fighting the inevitable: The propaganda war against no-kill People are not stupid; they understand the difference between “killing” and “euthanasia.” And the no-kill movement is not about what individual shelters do, but about a community-based effort to develop non-lethal animal population management practices nationwide. And it’s not […]
Continue readingApril 20, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Australian’s have a very unique relationship with the law. Anyone whose travelled overseas, where there is often a ‘if you don’t bother me, I won’t bother you’ ideology, will have noticed the Aussie preference to legislate against every possibility. When someone presents yet another law addressing yet another issue, it’s the Australian way to think […]
Continue readingApril 3, 2010Comments are closed.No Kill
From Yes Biscuit; Some animal advocates are very keen on blaming the public for the killing of shelter pets. I disagree with this entirely but if you are determined to blame the public for the so-called necessity of shelter killing, is this truly the approach you want to take when asking the public for support? […]
Continue readingMarch 29, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance
It’s a great word isn’t it? Misanthrope mis·an·thrope –noun a hater of humankind. One of the things that most attracted me to the No Kill movement, was the idea that we should be challenging those things we think to be true by taking in and observing the success of others. But one of the hurdles […]
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