January 7, 2010Comments are closed.attitude
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Giving up the blame game and changing everything
What is traditionally pet-dumping season has become pet-adoption season at Noosa RSPCA animal shelter.
Figures show the amount of abandoned animals taken in by the centre last year dropped to 19, down from 75 pets dumped during the 2008 period.
And while a lot less animals came in, more were adopted out, especially during the Christmas/ New Year period. In 2008, 85 animals were adopted while last year 115 found new homes.
Noosa RSPCA shelter manager Nicole Cleary said they had been run off their feet recently.
“We have been doing huge days, completing up to six or seven adoptions a day,” she said.
It has allowed the shelter to fill those empty cages with needy animals brought in from other shelters across the state.
In the lead-up to Christmas, dogs, cats, puppies and kittens were brought in from Kingaroy, Gympie and Brisbane, while 11 were flown from Townsville.
All up Noosa RSPCA took 84 animals from other shelters last year.
Ms Cleary said it was not just the animals coming from far and wide, but prospective pet owners were also travelling to the shelter from outside of Noosa.
“We have had people from Brisbane and the Gold Coast.”
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Calling your public bogans and keeping things the same
Since New Year’s Day, 161 dogs have arrived at the North Melbourne Lost Dogs’ home, and 83 have been reclaimed.
Sixty-one dogs have arrived at the Cranbourne shelter, with 26 reclaimed.
Ms Conroy said illegal fireworks in the suburbs were a major concern. ”Due to the stupidity of bogans setting off illegal fireworks, dogs in the neighbourhood get spooked and end up in here, or worse still – dead.
”We were lucky that it was raining at the time when bogans would have been setting off their fireworks.
