August 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Unless you’re in a state with lifetime registration, each year you are expected to pay your council an amount to register your dog/s (and sometimes cat/s). However, our Councils are largely misusing these funds. – Money is being added to overall council coffers, rather than spent on proactive programs to keep pets out of pounds. […]
Continue readingApril 14, 2012Comments are closed.cats, shelter procedure
Last night a call went out from the Cat Haven in Perth: “Abandoned” kittens in “distress” needing immediate help. Further updates told us the cats weren’t just in distress – they were also “diseased”. Of course the public (the irresponsible masses) were quick to rally in support. The kittens must be caught! But what no […]
Continue readingMarch 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, shelter procedure
I’ve been trying to find a spare moment to blog out this presentation since it ran back in January, because it was simply awesome. Do you want to stop the tragic deaths of shelter cats, and cut your shelter’s cat intake dramatically and almost overnight? Maddie’s Institute presents Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out […]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
It’s hard to imagine that just five months has passed, since the community of Geelong demanded the killing end at their local pound, the Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS). The organisation had been defending killing for decades, citing that they couldn’t stop killing animals because they were simply not savable, they were unsocialised puppies, there […]
Continue readingOctober 24, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, shelter procedure
Notes from a YouTube video from Michigan’s 1st No Kill Conference. More videos can be seen here. Susanne Kogut, Executive Director of the open admission No Kill Charlottesville SPCA, details how she drastically reduced killing and created a No Kill community (saving 90% of the animals) in a very short period of time. Under her […]
Continue readingOctober 17, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, council pound, resistance, shelter procedure
Photo: The Geelong Advertiser Above is a photo of the weekend’s protests by animal lovers, following the release of video footage of pets being killed at the Geelong Animal Welfare Society. These members of the ‘irresponsible public’ met on the stairs of City Hall, calling for such outrageous demands as, a new system where volunteers […]
Continue readingOctober 15, 2011Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
**Warning – videos in this post include footage of animals being killed by lethal injection** It is a pervasive idea that shelters and pounds who kill pets, are doing so with a compassionate heart and after every other avenue has been exhausted. And it has been the doctrine of these same high kill pounds […]
Continue readingSeptember 23, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, No Kill, shelter procedure
Widely celebrated as Australia’s answer to the No Kill movement of the US, the ‘Getting to Zero’ (G2Z) program has been, being developed by the Animal Welfare League of Queensland and claims to “detail the principles, structures and strategies for achieving zero killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs”. The AWLQ seems like an […]
Continue readingSeptember 8, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, shelter procedure
Mitch Schneider, Director Washoe County Animal Management Services USA Getting to Zero through Proactive Animal Management Programs – a Win-Win Approach to Animal Control
Continue readingSeptember 7, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill, shelter procedure
Robyn Kippenberger, Richard Avanzino & Joy Verrinder NDN Opening – G2Z elements
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