October 31, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
The ABC is still going on about cats. Except the claims are getting broader, less accurate and more fanciful with every article. From ‘Calls for Australian cats to be kept indoors’; “With feral cats killing as many as 75 million Australian creatures every day…” This ’75 million Australian creatures’ quote seemed to first come […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound, RSPCA
Sometimes blogging is an absolute joy – pulling stats, meaty scientific papers and good-news stories and compiling them all together to make positive change, communicating on a subject you’re passionate about. Other times, it’s purging annoyance because many things have got on your tits all at once and you just have to get it out. That […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Renbury pound kills about one in every two cats that enter their facility. They accomplish over 2,000 dead cats a year. The only thing that keeps them from sustaining a near 100% kill rate, is a dedicated group of rescuers taking (around 30% of) the cats they want to kill, and instead placing them in […]
Continue readingOctober 17, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
Nothing will stop the RSPCA for lobbying for 24hr cat containment. No matter how ineffective the laws are at controlling unowned animals. No matter how many cats have to be killed in the process… TAMMY VEN DANGE, RSPCA ACT: We still have a lot of feral cats out there in places that are cat […]
Continue readingOctober 16, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
An update on this video below… Bundaberg Regional Council has been forced to apologise after a video was posted on Facebook apparently showing council officers letting a dog out of its front yard and closing the gate on it. The video provoked a storm of criticism on social media. The officers were conducting a […]
Continue readingOctober 15, 2014Comments are closed.cats
As a regular reader of this blog, I know you’re an animal nerd and probably on all of the same pet-news alerts as myself. So you no doubt will have seen the recent barrage of pro-native, anti-cat sentiment being pushed by the major media over the last few months. It almost seems inarguable – cats […]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
“This was my little dog (Choppie) that had been picked up and taken to the Macksville pound yard on Friday. I wasn’t allowed to get him out over the weekend so I had to stay the weekend to wait till today (Monday) to get him before I returned to QLD. When I went to […]
Continue readingOctober 11, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Anne Coleman and Sho-pan (Image – the Queensland Times) Finding new homes for pets who have owners who love them and want them back is an enormously stupid waste of our community’s animal management resources. Killing pets who have owners who want to reclaim them is deeply unethical. Which is why it would surprise […]
Continue readingOctober 5, 2014Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
Remember back when WA rescue groups were lobbying for cat laws and they said the laws would mean we no longer had a cat problem because all the cats would be desexed and so, no kittens? Cat laws were the answer, remember? So we got the laws. We’ve had them now for 11 months. Last year’s […]
Continue readingOctober 4, 2014Comments are closed.other
Tiny, helpless, unweaned orphans found on the streets, brought into care and bottle fed to health by willing volunteers. Once grown, the now affectionate, socialised pets are desexed and placed with families looking for indoor only companions. Sounds like the work of pretty much all rescue groups, no? Now imagine this was to be made […]
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