April 15, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance
What a topsy-turvy world we live in, when someone who advocates for cat’s lives to be respected and protected is howled down by cat lovers – while the ‘cat welfare’ group advocating to use killing as a tool to manage their population is lauded for their efforts. It would be funny if the cats weren’t […]
Continue readingApril 14, 2012Comments are closed.cats, shelter procedure
Last night a call went out from the Cat Haven in Perth: “Abandoned” kittens in “distress” needing immediate help. Further updates told us the cats weren’t just in distress – they were also “diseased”. Of course the public (the irresponsible masses) were quick to rally in support. The kittens must be caught! But what no […]
Continue readingMarch 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, shelter procedure
I’ve been trying to find a spare moment to blog out this presentation since it ran back in January, because it was simply awesome. Do you want to stop the tragic deaths of shelter cats, and cut your shelter’s cat intake dramatically and almost overnight? Maddie’s Institute presents Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out […]
Continue readingMarch 16, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
“Learn about pet care” Mayor Anoulack Chanthivong feels the community is to blame for Campbelltown pound’s enormously high kill rate. Campbelltown pound is failing pets. A staggering 2,366 of their 2,593 unclaimed pets at its pound ended up dead last year. They have limited opening hours, refuse to work with rescue and release undesexed pets […]
Continue readingMarch 6, 2012Comments are closed.cats, pet shops/puppy farming
“I wake up every morning and I do what I’d do if I had $30 million. I’m a lucky man.” There are two scenarios with this picture; – either it was taken on mainland Australia, where the killing of cats is ineffective in the medium or long term, and the eradication of cats is unrealistic… […]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
The City of Campbelltown has a population of 150,000 and a council run animal shelter which takes in about 3,600 pets a year. They were the focus of some understandably negative publicity, when council revealed in it’s 2009/10 annual report that it killed 2,269 of the 2,728 unclaimed pets at its pound. But it took […]
Continue readingFebruary 23, 2012Comments are closed.cats, dogs
‘Pets Family’ Cavoodles How much money should a reputable animal welfare organisation take from a live-puppy-sales pet shop? I’m sure you’ll agree that the answer is none. Any reputable animal welfare organisation would recognise that a pet store which sold puppies – likely the offspring of puppy farm mothers – is the antithesis of their […]
Continue readingFebruary 17, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, resistance
Anyone who’s followed this blog knows the enormous disaster the ‘Who’s for Cats’ program has been for cats in the state of Victoria. Not only seeing a 50% increase in complaints about cats, and encouraging violence against them, but surging cat impoundments to record levels requiring millions of dollars worth of new infrastructure to ‘process’ […]
Continue readingFebruary 7, 2012Comments are closed.cats
Link to article: Feral cats on the march in Ingleburn (they made a joke here, which has since been removed – I think they thought I was laughing with them) ……… …. I’ve still not heard anything. Look, I realise I’m probably just busting the balls of some PR/marketing person who know jack all about […]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
It’s hard to imagine that just five months has passed, since the community of Geelong demanded the killing end at their local pound, the Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS). The organisation had been defending killing for decades, citing that they couldn’t stop killing animals because they were simply not savable, they were unsocialised puppies, there […]
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