December 31, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, customer service, marketing
Open for adoptions of course! NHS Open for Pet Adoptions on New Year’s Day On Friday, January 1, Nevada Humane Society will be open for adoptions from 11am to 5pm. In celebration of the new year, the first people who adopt a pet in 2010 will receive special prizes and recognition on our website, both […]
Continue readingNovember 25, 2009Comments are closed.attitude
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Continue readingOctober 12, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill
Nathan Winograd on twitter: G’day mate. Just returned from down under. And the race is on for a No Kill nation. Who will get there 1st: U.S., Australia or New Zealand? Check out this youtube of his recent interview on Animal Wise Radio. Shout outs to the RSPCA ACT and AWL QLD.
Continue readingOctober 8, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, mandatory desexing
If you needed proof that the overwhelming majority of Australian pet owners, don’t only love their pets, but make provisions for them during times of financial crisis, check this video: If you had a child that needed a particular medicine, you would find the money from somewhere. The same for any member of your family, […]
Continue readingOctober 6, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill
There’s very little worse I think, than sick and uneasy feeling that comes from returning to my shelter bubbling over with enthusiasm and ideas, only to have it met with if not open hostility, bemused apathy. I hadn’t realised how quashed I’d become in these last few months. That’s dangerous thinking; they’re pretty extremist ideas […]
Continue readingOctober 5, 2009Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing
How to take an excellent idea and turn it into a bad one; Pet owner obedience classes An animal shelter is barring people from adopting homeless dogs and cats unless they first take a course on how to look after pets. The shelter which runs the X pound – says it has been forced to […]
Continue readingSeptember 13, 2009Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude
Shelter animals already face formidable obstacles to getting out alive: they can get sick in a shelter, customer service is often poor, a shelter’s location may be remote, adoption hours may be limited, policies may limit the number of days they are held, some may view the animals as “damaged†goods when the reason they […]
Continue readingSeptember 7, 2009Comments are closed.attitude
I just think people should exhaust all options before giving up their pets and its generally clear when they haven’t, so I have no sympathy for those people. I’ve had enough animals surrendered to me personally that I’ve heard all the excuses. When I was in my early twenties, I was a caregiver to my […]
Continue readingAugust 31, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, shelter procedure
Want to get people to change their behavior? Take away the excuses. Andy Sernovitz The Red Cross wants people to donate blood. They let me register online, picked me up from work and took me to the clinic, and dropped me back when I was done. What do we want the public to do? Desex? […]
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