July 16, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
Are you tired of having the same conversations with people over and over as to why they should change? Are you sick of them taking your good advice and ignoring it? Does your group try to bring new initiatives to the community, only to have them fail due to lack of support? From the brilliantly […]
Continue readingJuly 13, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, marketing
I had $25 sandwich for lunch today. And rather than feel ripped off, I was very, very happy. The staff were friendly, the premises immaculate and the food really good. Everything about the place was aimed towards client satisfaction – they have to be a worth talking about to compete with the multitude of other […]
Continue readingJune 26, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
What would you do if found out Kevin Rudd was coming to adopt from you this week? Would you change the way you answered the phone? Spruce up the way you met visitors? Have your best staff on deck? Wear matching uniforms? If you thought there might be media in tow, would you tidy up? Sweep your […]
Continue readingJune 23, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
It’s a weird world. Most shelters have a sign that say ‘please don’t take photos of our pets’, strict policies about who can take photos and put them on the web and when Michael Mountain came to Australia filming his experience, he wasn’t allowed to take cameras in. What is everyone so afraid of? For […]
Continue readingJune 20, 2008Comments are closed.attitude
“Too many pets and not enough homes” is a catchy little ditty heard often in rescue, but while the death toll and suffering are obvious to us, the idea that there are a “lack of homes†makes little sense when compared to the figures of pets acquired from sources other than rescue. Today Tonight’s story […]
Continue readingMay 13, 2008Comments are closed.attitude
At risk teens up early on a Saturday morning to go to dog trial? Sometimes pets can be the link to bigger and better things… Break and enter…assault… robbery…torching cars… and dog jumping. Yep … a bunch of teenage boys from Armidale in the northern tablelands of NSW who’ve been well known to the local […]
Continue readingMay 12, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, marketing
I’m working with two rescue groups; both are staffed by lovely volunteers, both want to boost their adoptions and both have high standards for their adopters, so are working to weed out the bad ones as best they can. Group A does this by working out in the community, spreading the word about responsible pets […]
Continue readingMay 7, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
A guy with a serious medical condition is admitted to the hospital. The doctor presents him with his options. We can give you a modern treatment that has succeeded every time we have used it, he says. Or we can use a treatment developed in the 19th century. It never has succeeded, but it’s very […]
Continue readingMay 3, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, dogs
no furbabies shud evr be on de street wif no home….not everz!
Continue readingApril 25, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
The March/April issue of Animal Sheltering Magazine, “What Happens After Happily Ever After” argues; that the real measure of a successful rescue isn’t the number of pets saved, but the number of successful placements. So what defines a successful placement? If your client is happy with their pet; if the pet lives as family member, […]
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