September 22, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Image: The Catorialist Blog If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I spent last Saturday at the WA Cat Welfare Symposium. I consider myself a bit of a cat nerd and the previous year’s symposiums had been headed in a good direction. The first year had a big focus on TNR and the second […]
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 readingSeptember 14, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance
In WA last year, new laws were drafted that would force WA cat owners to sterilise and microchip their pets. Which would have little effect the majority of WA’s cat owners, as they are overwhelmingly compliant already; RSPCA spokesman Richard Barry yesterday applauded the move. “In WA there are about 10,000 cats and kittens euthanased […]
Continue readingSeptember 13, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Whyalla Council Pound in SA is under fire for using a gas chamber to kill the community’s stray pets; “A lot of people were upset when they heard that abandoned animals were euthanased via gassing chamber,” Mr Pollock said. … Senior legislation compliance officer Ronald Versteegh said three alternatives would be explored, including injection of […]
Continue readingSeptember 12, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Photo: The Daily Puppy If I were to start a charity to help homeless people, take donations from the public and purport to be a leader in welfare; and my organisation was called, The Foundation for the Charismatic, Good Looking, Healthy Homeless I think I’d have some explaining to do. Because everyone knows that it […]
Continue readingSeptember 9, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Prepping has begun to lower our expectations heading into ‘cat season’; Managing director of Cranbourne’s Lost Dogs Home and Cat Shelter, which services the area, Dr Graeme Smith, said stray cat numbers could be expected to increase soon with the new breeding season. “Collection of strays is something people need to discuss with Cardinia Council, […]
Continue readingSeptember 1, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Animal management can be a huge asset to its community; working to keep its public safe, offering a service that protects people and their animals and leading the way in compassion. Or it can work against its public, seeing them as an enemy that needs to be coerced with more laws, more fines and expanded […]
Continue readingAugust 15, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, customer service, resistance
This? Or this? From a WA animal shelter’s ‘Adoption Adviser’; The great offence that these potential adopters committed? To need some support in working to getting landlord approval to have a pet. When people willing to open their hearts and families to a rescue pet feel the only option they have is to lie to […]
Continue readingAugust 15, 2010Comments are closed.resistance, shelter procedure
In the past pounds and shelter defended the killing of healthy, friendly and treatable pets by claiming they weren’t really ‘killing’ at all… instead they used words like ‘putting to sleep’ and ‘euthanasia’ to describe the acceptance that pets would die at the hands of those who claimed to be working to care for them. […]
Continue readingJune 28, 2010Comments are closed.resistance, shelter procedure
Breeders are in the spotlight in the ACT; The territory’s 96 per cent success rate at finding homes for orphaned animals is putting more pressure on the ACT as Canberrans save dogs from NSW. RSPCA ACT chief executive Michael Linke said, ”We’ve had a lot of people rescuing dogs on death row in Goulburn or […]
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