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Pet cats under fire from the ABC

October 31, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA

  The ABC is still going on about cats. Except the claims are getting broader, less accurate and more fanciful with every article. From ‘Calls for Australian cats to be kept indoors’;   “With feral cats killing as many as 75 million Australian creatures every day…” This ’75 million Australian creatures’ quote seemed to first come […]

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Australian rescue news

October 25, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound, RSPCA

Sometimes blogging is an absolute joy – pulling stats, meaty scientific papers and good-news stories and compiling them all together to make positive change, communicating on a subject you’re passionate about. Other times, it’s purging annoyance because many things have got on your tits all at once and you just have to get it out. That […]

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There’s no such thing as too many dead cats – RSPCA policy

October 17, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA

  Nothing will stop the RSPCA for lobbying for 24hr cat containment. No matter how ineffective the laws are at controlling unowned animals. No matter how many cats have to be killed in the process… TAMMY VEN DANGE, RSPCA ACT: We still have a lot of feral cats out there in places that are cat […]

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Tasmanian pounds to kill because what more do you want?

October 3, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA

  The RSPCA Tasmania is consolidating its services as part of its plan to rebuild community support, after a decade or so of internal shenanigans. It announced yesterday that as part of this restructure it would reduce the scope of services it offered local councils; RSPCA general manager Peter West said the group wanted to shed responsibility […]

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A history of No Kill and the RSPCA

October 1, 2014Comments are closed.No Kill, RSPCA

  This is a working document, that will be continuously updated…   Then… Liberation preferable to annihilation option Author: Mark Pearson Date: 18/08/2004 Newcastle Herald LEGISLATION in NSW makes it an offence to unjustifiably, unreasonably or unnecessarily kill an animal. The only exemption is for the humane production of food. There is no exemption to […]

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Australian rescue news

September 26, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home, RSPCA

I’ve been on holidays for a couple of weeks, so have gotten a little behind in these news updates. Lots to cover! New South Wales Look at all these photos of the beautiful, healthy, desexed! ear-tipped, stray cats… and they’re not in some foreign country with more progressive policies – they’re right here in Oz! […]

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The great cat showdown; will the RSPCA choose compassion or killing?

September 8, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA

In Mackay (QLD), a group of community cats live behind some shops; The owner and staff at Divas Den, and workers at a nearby business have been feeding the cats for many months but with another blossoming cat expecting a new litter, say the situation cannot continue. “They are only going to keep on multiplying,” […]

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Pound kills the wrong dog. Again.

August 8, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA

  In the kill-centric animal management system we have in Australia, the pets that usually get the needle are those whose owners either don’t care, or for some reason aren’t able to find their animal’s location within the timeframe set by that same system. That is, those pets who have no human advocate. These unnamed, unprotected pets […]

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RSPCA WA drops a dozen staff

August 6, 2014Comments are closed.RSPCA

RSPCA Malaga   Reports this morning, that up to a dozen staff have lost their jobs at the RSPCA WA, with the organisation citing ‘financial concerns’. According to historical annual reports, after the appointment of the new CEO David van Ooran in early 2012 the organisation completed a structural review, which saw 8 of 13 managers ousted and 33 staff replaced […]

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Australian rescue news

August 1, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA

Steve Coleman (Image: Blue Mountains Gazette) More than 150 local residents attended a meeting to protest the RSPCA NSW’s decision to sell off its local animal shelter and stop providing services to council. City residents claim they have ‘moral’ ownership of the property after fundraising for years to buy and build the facility, and that should […]

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