June 14, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, shelter procedure
Since hubby and I are having a ‘dry’ June and going to the pub for lunch was out, we spent Saturday walking through the city. Along with bags of junk (the sales are on) and some retro fabric, a secondhand copy of Tim Low’s 2001 book ‘Feral Future’ jumped off the shelf and into my […]
Continue readingJune 8, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
The Lost Dogs Home is again calling for a ‘pet owner licencing scheme’ on the back of their efforts to develop a short pre-adoption quiz for people adopting from their shelter (I know, screening potential adopters before adoption – it’s ‘revolutionary’). “Pet Licences issued by The Lost Dogs’ Home should be made mandatory across Australia”. […]
Continue readingJune 6, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
In today’s Sydney Sun-Herald, is a series of articles about the RSPCA and other animal welfare group’s efforts to have the sale of pets through pet shops banned. > 250,000 healthy cats and dogs killed each year > No homes for them > Pet industry ‘needs regulation’ Tighter legislation is needed to regulate dog and […]
Continue readingJune 4, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, dogs, shelter procedure
I delayed posting on this article from last month’s Animal Sheltering magazine, because I wanted the public version to go online – but this article about the importance of exercise for shelter dog’s adoptability is freaking genuis! One of the first and most essential components of modifying almost any inappropriate behavior is proper exercise. Unless […]
Continue readingJune 2, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, marketing, new media, No Kill, pet shops/puppy farming, PetRescue, shelter procedure
I’ve always considered PetRescue to be a very charmed project. My best mate JB is a technical genius and an all round nice guy. My shared-brain friend Vix and I both purchased wonky dogs at around the same time (hers from a pet shop, mine from a guy in a pub carpark) who would catapult […]
Continue readingMay 27, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Bendigo was one of the first Victorian councils to introduce cat management laws. In the 2002/03 period the council impounded 534 cats, killing 338 of them. In 2004, they introduced a cat curfew, using the cat haters in the community to ‘teach cat owners a lesson’: 06 July 2004 – Residents will be on the […]
Continue readingMay 26, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Why do pets die in shelters? I no longer believe in the ‘too many pets, not enough homes’ reasoning because I can’t make the math of hundreds of pets being sold by pet shops, in the newspaper and on the internet each day, gel with the idea that no one wants the pets we have. […]
Continue readingMay 24, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing, new media, No Kill, shelter procedure
A man walks into your shelter and drops off a canary in a box. Do you a) recognise that you don’t have any aviary facilities, so do the ‘kindest thing’ and kill the bird. The man should have been a more responsible owner! or b) post the bird to your Facebook fan page of over […]
Continue readingMay 23, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, customer service, dogs, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure, volunteers
The New Zealanders might have just overtaken Australia in the race to modernised animal sheltering industry. Over 125 years ago, New Zealand opened its first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or SPCA. Today, proving that even an ‘old’ organisation can lead the way in modern thinking, they have pledged their dedication to […]
Continue readingMay 19, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Released tomorrow is the new ‘Code of practice for the management of dogs and cats in shelters and pounds‘ from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. With the advisory panel for this legislation featuring some of the largest and most wealthy animal shelters in Victoria, including the RSPCA VIC and Lost Dogs Home, this review […]
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