October 26, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, cats, council pound, shelter procedure
What happens to the performance of an organisation when the culture is not one of hope and potential, but the absolute conviction that failure is the only option? ‘We know we can’t succeed.’ What if your role in the community is one where lives depend on you – like a nurse, or a policeman, or […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
The Cat Protection Society in Victoria has had a disastrous weekend, with a major media outlet getting its hands on an internal document calling for the sacking of a director who dared to question why their performance in protecting cats is in the toilet. Just how bad is it? In 2009, of the 12,491 cats […]
Continue readingSeptember 24, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Warning readers; this made my bile rise so you might want to go grab a cup of tea before you get reading. For the past 19 years, Whyalla Council has killed animals via carbon monoxide from an old Holden motor. Prior to the gassing, Council killed dogs by shooting them in the head and cats, […]
Continue readingSeptember 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 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 10, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, dogs, shelter procedure, volunteers
This is just fantastic; More than 100 dogs per year will be given a second lease at life thanks to inmates at the John Morony Correctional Complex. NSW Minister for Corrective Services, Phillip Costa, joined Londonderry MP, Allan Shearan, to launch the initiative last week, which will see selected John Morony inmates assist in the […]
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 7, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, No Kill, shelter procedure
In 2007, Nevada Humane Society launched an ambitious no-kill initiative to make Washoe County, Nevada one of the safest communities in the United States for homeless animals. And we are succeeding. Despite a per capita intake rate higher than many communities nationwide, we were the safest community of our size for dogs in the United […]
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 […]
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