February 27, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
This is the view from the hotel, across the road from the Melbourne Treasury Gardens. I’m here to speak tomorrow at the Stop Killing Our Pound Pets Rally 2014. It has never been more important to show your support for proactive, life saving programs. More people than ever are understanding that our we deserve better […]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2014Comments are closed.WA Cat Laws
The two biggest champions of WA’s new cat laws, were without a doubt the RSPCA WA and the Cat Haven. I’ve requested from the WA government, the full list of grant recipients and the amounts given. And you’ll never guess who the two biggest benefactors were? Go on. Have a guess… See the full […]
Continue readingFebruary 23, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Glenn and his dogs Bundy & Rocco (Image – The Daily Telegraph) Glenn is an animal lover, who took in a friend’s two dogs temporarily. As sometimes happens, six months later they were still in his care. One day, one of the dogs ‘Rusty’, slipped out a gate that had been left open, and […]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Greater Dandenong has a problem. Despite passing compulsory microchipping and registration laws… Greater Dandenong senior animal management officer Richard Asquith said about 75 per cent of cats impounded by council were feral. “It’s a constant challenge to try to reverse that trend, and they get put to sleep because we can’t put them in any […]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, NSW Taskforce
‘Cat laws’ in various forms are often purported as the secret to managing skyrocketing shelter populations. If only all the ‘irresponsible’ cat owners identified and desexed their cats … the thinking goes … we wouldn’t need shelters. Cat laws are generally designed to do three things; 1. Increase rates of desexing, so there are less […]
Continue readingFebruary 15, 2014Comments are closed.cats, shelter procedure
I am loving a new series of podcasts called ‘Human Animal Science’ which are animal welfare’y, science’y and Australian based. It is hosted by Tim Adams and Mia Cobb, and if you’re a regular reader of this blog, the show will almost certainly give you a thrill too! Some of the show’s other topics […]
Continue readingFebruary 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Back in November, two little pups were collected by a good samaritan and delivered to the pound provider in Broken Hill, The Broken Hill Veterinary Clinic (NSW). Tammy and Patchy were well cared for, and in good health. They were just five months old and belonged to a 6 year old girl. The […]
Continue readingFebruary 10, 2014Comments are closed.attitude
Overnight, despite enormous community backlash, a young giraffe deemed ‘surplus’ by a Copenhagen Zoo was killed and fed to the zoo’s tigers and other carnivores. Thousands had appealed for a change of heart over the two-year-old, called Marius, who had been born at the zoo. The zoo called the killing of this young, healthy […]
Continue readingFebruary 7, 2014Comments are closed.RSPCA
100,000 Australians have read the story of Izzy and her little family. Hundreds, if not thousands, of comments have been posted on this blog, my facebook page, and on people’s personal social media channels. Practically every one is asking the same thing… how did this happen? However if you visit the RSPCA WA homepage, or […]
Continue readingFebruary 5, 2014Comments are closed.RSPCA, Temperament testing
The RSPCA WA is being questioned by the state government regarding their processes for choosing which pets are treated and which pets are killed… The WA Government has raised fears the RSPCA is destroying pets that could be kept alive. Documents obtained by The Sunday Times reveal Agriculture Department boss Rob Delane was told of […]
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