January 31, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, NSW Taskforce
A 14-month-old American Staffy – let’s call him Buddy – was visiting a friends house, when he escaped by popping out of a fly-screened window. Thankfully, the local ranger from Leeton Shire Council collected Buddy after a neighbour reported him as wandering lost. Buddy was microchipped and his details were current. This should have meant […]
Continue readingJanuary 31, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
One of the best things about shelter reform and animal advocacy is seeing new, passionate people coming on board wanting to help the pets. Many aren’t sure why pets are dying in such huge numbers in the nation’s shelters and pounds, but they do want to know if they can do something about it. And […]
Continue readingJanuary 28, 2014Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming, RSPCA
Bandit was a young pup sold by a pet shop. His new owners hadn’t checked whether their landlord allowed pets and less than three months later Bandit became homeless, surrendered to the RSPCA. This sounds exactly like a case study of failed placement which animal advocates use to justify abhorring retail pet shop sales, yes? […]
Continue readingJanuary 25, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
The ACT RSPCA has long claimed that their cats laws are a ‘success’ wanting them introduced across the ACT, despite ten years of them making very little difference to the number of cat and kitten intakes and their overall stats remaining pretty much static. It seems there is a ‘sweet spot’ between 2,000 and […]
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy
I’ve been super busy with the new bubs, but here are some of the most important – and some of my favourite – links and stories from the last month or so. Hope you enjoy and thanks for reading! :)shel
Continue readingJanuary 18, 2014Comments are closed.dogs, Lost Dogs Home
One of the criticisms thrown at people who find themselves affected by Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), is ‘why get a pit bull dog if you weren’t looking for trouble?’ Only bad people, the thinking goes – would ever own one of ‘these’ dogs. In stark contrast to this platitude, last February Jennifer and her family […]
Continue readingJanuary 15, 2014Comments are closed.dogs, shelter procedure
In case you weren’t able to attend, you can now watch the Bill Bruce lecture series on the Calgary model. Many thanks to the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Back in November the Tasmanian government’s Animal Welfare Advisory Committee closed public consultation of a new welfare standard for dogs kept by ‘Domestic Animal Businesses’ including pounds and shelters. Some of the paper’s recommendations included: – requiring vet care for sick or injured dogs. – specifying a minimum pound enclosure sizes for large dogs of […]
Continue readingJanuary 13, 2014Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home
This post is a redux of a post from July 2013. I’ve added new current information… The Lost Dogs Home has for more than ten years, provided pound services to the city of Darebin. – In 2010, 276 unclaimed dogs were left at the facility. 85 were rehomed, while 169 were killed. – In […]
Continue readingJanuary 11, 2014Comments are closed.RSPCA
Back in July I wrote a post on a mistreated dog, dubbed Braveheart. Braveheart was collected by police and passed on to local rescue group SAFE Broome in the middle of June. He was so underweight and neglected, he was almost unrecognisable as the mastiff that he should be. Understandably, the RSPCA WA was […]
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