November 11, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, council pound
The NSW government have since 2005, collected data on intakes and outcomes for pets entering their pound system. The latest available figures were recently released in a report, Analysis of Council Data Collection System for Seizures of Cats and Dogs 2010/2011. Animal advocates have long maintained that ‘overpopulation’ is the reason shelters kill. For that […]
Continue readingNovember 8, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, Lost Dogs Home
The faceless dog “The Lost Dogs’ Home has had quite a high number of dogs arrive at the shelter over the long weekend, especially after the storms yesterday! If you have lost your dog and think they may have been brought to The Lost Dogs’ Home, please come to the shelter and take a look, […]
Continue readingNovember 5, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs
Further community anger at the RSPCA NSW, this time for taking credit for placing pets in homes, whom it actually killed; Mr Twining said the two dogs that he knew about, Reg and Max, had been put down in May. “When the RSPCA (Nowra) published this on Facebook saying these dogs had found their forever […]
Continue readingOctober 11, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, No Kill, RSPCA
From the Canberra Times today; The ACT branch of the RSPCA has sought to distance itself from its NSW counterpart by showing it is euthanasing a far smaller percentage of dogs. The latest figures show that the RSPCA in the ACT had to put down 6.5 per cent of all dogs received by it last […]
Continue readingOctober 10, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, council pound, dogs, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW killed 8,209 of the 20,959 dogs (~40%) it took in in the 2010/11 year. It also killed 13,031 of the 20,703 cats (~60%). They assure us, they ‘had’ to be killed. From their Twitter; @RSPCANSW we r failing 2 put dangerous dogs out into the community & failing 2 put other dogs […]
Continue readingOctober 8, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Australian animal lovers are often berated with the idea that people in the United Kingdom are more ‘responsible’ and that we Aussies are all to be blamed for our high pound kill rates. It is also often purported that the pet industry in the UK is less ‘saturated’ and that thanks to their more ‘responsible’ […]
Continue readingOctober 3, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
Imagine for one moment each & every impounded pet came with a bundle of money – a few hundred dollars – around their kneck. Would this be enough to save their lives? In 2004 The Lost Dogs Home won the pound and shelter services tender for Melbourne City Council. It held the tender until 2008/09, […]
Continue readingOctober 1, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill, RSPCA
Regular readers will know I love a good numbers crunch, so when on SBS’s Insight the other night Steve Coleman, RSPCA NSW CEO, said; I was delighted. And as it turns out, it wasn’t that that difficult. So first we look at the number of intakes killed; RSPCA NSW – Number of intakes killed Cats […]
Continue readingSeptember 28, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill
In the United States there are now more than 50 No Kill communities (whole communities who save more than 90% of intakes), made up of over 200 pounds and shelters. New Zealand is well on the way to becoming a No Kill nation, with many ‘open admission’ SPCA shelters saving more than 94% of intakes. […]
Continue readingSeptember 19, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill
Tonight I truly get to say I was a part of the revolution for shelter animals that is taking place in Australia. SBS Insight filmed in Sydney and I was enormously flattered to be offered the opportunity to speak on behalf of our movement and the homeless pets who will lose their lives unnecessarily in […]
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