March 24, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, council pound, No Kill
Ralph the Jack Russell was making his way around CQ Pet Rescue’s Stalls 4 Paws night markets with Ella and Chloe,hoping to find his new forever home. (Image cqnews.com) The Central Highlands Regional Council could view pets as garbage – driving them to the tip, shooting them and dumping their bodies. This absolutely could be […]
Continue readingMarch 13, 2013Comments are closed.cats, dogs, No Kill, RSPCA
From the RSPCA NSW Facebook page… The RSPCA NSW figures for last year; Dogs unclaimed – 11,093 // Dogs killed – 4,862 Or 44% Cats unclaimed – 16,166 // Cats killed – 9,531 Or 59% While the RSPCA works to discredit those shelters embracing No Kill and promoting a lifesaving policy, and regardless of the […]
Continue readingMarch 10, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
“Whereas 12 years ago we had not a single No Kill community, today we have over 90 communities representing about 300 cities and towns nationwide saving between 90 and 99% of all animals. And this success comes in spite of the best efforts of these groups to stem that tide, to undermine No Kill reform […]
Continue readingFebruary 28, 2013Comments are closed.cats, No Kill
Empty cages and more importantly, empty incinerators. The future of animal sheltering is rejecting the notion that killing is kindness. Best Friends Animal Society – It’s not every day we get to share a photo of empty shelter kennels! Recently, the City of Albuquerque celebrated the one year anniversary of not killing a single community […]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
The City of Austin is currently the largest No Kill city in the United States. From Ryan Clinton, attorney, animal advocate and founder of Fix Austin, the organisation who helped drive the change: In 2007, there were three known U.S. communities saving 90% or more of sheltered animals. Now there are nearly 100. We are […]
Continue readingFebruary 20, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
I blog because I get delighted, or outraged, or astounded, or sweary. I blog for the pets. I blog because often the things I hear our animal welfare leaders say, don’t correspond with the actual figures or the truth and this makes me cross. And I blog to stand up for the majority of pet […]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, No Kill
Open admission, No Kill shelters in the US have a problem – they’ve run out of cats! So now they’re pulling cats from other communities. This week, KCPP hit another milestone. Due to adoption numbers and help from local area groups, we were able to pull cats for adoption from another local shelter! Yesterday, we […]
Continue readingDecember 31, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
There are some who would zealously defend that in Australia we have dog and cat overpopulation. “250,000 pets are killed each year in shelters, therefore we have overpopulation” And others who would repeat the popular mantra ‘don’t breed or buy while shelter pets die’, which implies at its core that all the while shelter pets […]
Continue readingDecember 28, 2012Comments are closed.attitude, Lost Dogs Home, No Kill, resistance
The Lost Dogs’ Home general manager of operations, Sue Conroy, said fewer than half of the 267 dogs lost in the last fortnight had been returned to their owners. (via the Herald Sun) And yet despite the fact over 90% of intakes are via the Home’s own vehicles, the Lost Dogs Home maintains it wouldn’t […]
Continue readingDecember 19, 2012Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill
Image: Josh Cromer, a friend to the pets – Evansville Courier & Press Henderson County, Kentucky’s (USA) animal pound has, in a single year, gone from euthanising 45% of intakes, to less than 5%, thanks to new Director Josh Cromer’s efforts. Article: “WE’RE ROCKING”: After first year, shelter Director reports lower euthanasia rate, higher adoption, […]
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