March 26, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, customer service, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Check out this CEO Update from the latest RSPCA ACT e-newsletter. Doesn’t it just make you want to dance and sing?! (bolding mine) From the CEO… As CEO people often ask me if it is sad working at RSPCA. My response is always the same, no. RSPCA is a happy, warm and supportive place to […]
Continue readingFebruary 15, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, Secret Cat
Well, not entirely; she has to share her ‘Secret Cat’ title! Research has shown that 40% of cat owners are secretly feeding a cat they don’t own. Compassionate cat-lovers across the country are giving outdoor kitties extra help. Wild, stray or homeless; whatever you call them, they’re Community Cats. Anyone who has followed this blog […]
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
When a small white dog was impounded at The Lost Dogs Home, it would have been barely noticed by management. Just one of dozens of similar small, white dogs with matted hair, bad teeth and smelly ears. A small white dog that no one cared about and who’s death could have been no more meaningful […]
Continue readingJanuary 19, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, customer service, No Kill, shelter procedure
Blacktown pound’s god-awful ‘bidding’ system is under fire from their local community. Bidding madness riles locals at Blacktown Pound More animals are killed at Blacktown Animal Holding Facility than anywhere else in the state, yet it continues to use an archaic system where people have to bid to rescue a homeless pet. The system allows […]
Continue readingNovember 27, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill
Good science on how to take your community to No Kill from Maddies Fund: On October 23 and 24, 2009, The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine hosted the second annual Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Conference in Gainesville, Florida. The sold-out conference brought more than 200 veterinarians and shelter leaders from 22 states. The first […]
Continue readingNovember 26, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill
Imagine if you told pounds and shelters tomorrow that they couldn’t kill a pet that a rescue group was willing to take? Imagine if, instead of being able to gag rescue groups with threats to cut off their ability to rescue when they try and speak out about inhumane treatment of animals, pounds were forced […]
Continue readingNovember 23, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill, resistance
The Lost Dogs Home Managing Director, Graeme Smith has today claimed he’s aiming for… … a zero euthanasia rate, with as many animals claimed and re-housed as possible So if he’s truly interested in techniques that work to save the lives of pets and isn’t just paying lip service to the language of No Kill, […]
Continue readingNovember 7, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill, resistance
As anyone following No Kill developments in Australia knows, the first step to setting your community on a No Kill path is to stop seeing your public as ‘the problem’, and instead start to recognise they are the solution to shelter pet killing. Council pounds can look to engage, involve and attract the compassion of […]
Continue readingOctober 26, 2009Comments are closed.council pound, mandatory desexing, No Kill
While it’s easy to demonstrate a pound model that isn’t working (see yesterday’s post), I’d like to take the time to investigate a model that does work for comparison. As they say, you can’t argue with results. Below an image that represents the City of Calgary in Canada’s intake/return/rehome rate for dogs (click to download […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill
The No More Homeless Pets Conference is presently underway in Las Vegas. I’m not there, but I am watching happily as hundred of people twitter and blog the conference in real time. It’s so wonderful to see the No Kill movement capturing people’s imagination like nothing in rescue ever has before. Here’s a selection of […]
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