July 26, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy
“I can’t believe you criticised xxx pound – the staff there simply have no choice but to euthanise pets. You need to get off your keyboard and HELP them. Better yet, why don’t YOU take all the animals?” I get sent this email probably twice a week, so I’m going to take a moment to address it. Firstly, no – […]
Continue readingJuly 25, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
The community of Mitchell (VIC) had a problem. There was a dog who seemed to have been running loose for a long time, currently evading capture. ‘Claudia’ as she would be dubbed, had been living off scraps fed to her by concerned community members who reported her plight to Council. The dog was very […]
Continue readingJuly 23, 2014Comments are closed.adoptions
The Animal Welfare League Queensland has created a natty little internet meme addressing community feedback that a ‘free’ pet promotion might be a way to increase their adoption rates; Why don’t you just make your animals FREE? Many people believe that if we did not charge an adoption fee, and instead gave our animals away […]
Continue readingJuly 18, 2014Comments are closed.advocacy, customer service
You may remember Walgett Pound (NSW) became noticed by their local media last year, for all the wrong reasons – killing a young dog, using a firearm at the local garbage tip. Then, not only defending shooting as an appropriate end for family pets, but choosing to continue to use the method, even as a local […]
Continue readingJuly 16, 2014Comments are closed.RSPCA
In the 1980’s a group of concerned community members realised that the way the local Council was processing its pets was inhumane and largely barbaric. At a nearby rubbish tip, in a derelict building, unclaimed pets were simply shot and buried. Lithgow Dog Pound at the Garbage Tip ~“A dreadful place where the lost dogs […]
Continue readingJuly 11, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Dog in Bundaberg Pound Killing, and then blaming the public for the killing, has become such an entrenched way of doing things in animal pounds in Australia, that sometimes the irony of their policies is lost on the staff who work there. Bundaberg Council Pound is open to the public for adoptions exactly zero […]
Continue readingJuly 7, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Sharni and Charlie A last-minute push by animal lovers saw a host of options become available to Frankston City Council in finding a solution to the case of Charlie and Sharni – two dogs alleged to have killed a neighbourhood cat. First, they had the most straight-forward option. They could have declared the dogs dangerous; […]
Continue readingJuly 7, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Lost child Photo: Getty Images In Australia ‘treating our pets like family’ is more than just a saying – we genuinely love our pets and treat them as family members. Our pets live indoors with us, in our lounge rooms and on our beds. We give them 21st century resources, behavioural and medical care, and […]
Continue readingJuly 4, 2014Comments are closed.adoptions, council pound, No Kill
(Image: PCC 398, Female Smoochiepuss – available tomorrow 5.7.14) Hawkesbury Companion Animal Shelter have found the answer to shelter killing… doing things OTHER than killing pets. Returning pets direct to owner, rather than impounding them… Penrith council officers returned 340 animals before impoundment last year, said Noel Fuller, co-ordinator of the Penrith rangers and animal controllers. […]
Continue readingJuly 1, 2014Comments are closed.No Kill, RSPCA
It’s getting ever more difficult for pounds and shelters with high kill rates to defend their operations. It’s undeniably clear that shelters who have the right leadership, are able to save and place the overwhelming majority of pets, with only a tiny fraction of animals entering a shelter being truly ‘unsaveable’. In addition, […]
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