May 25, 2013Comments are closed.cats
“If the attitudes and beliefs of Dr. Kate Hurley, the director of the U.C. Davis Shelter Medicine Program, are any indication, the kill-oriented sheltering movement is in trouble. I just finished watching Hurley’s video ‘New Approaches to Community Cats’ where she tells shelter directors to stop taking in and killing cats regardless of whether they […]
Continue readingMay 12, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound, SA Cat Laws
Mitcham Council isn’t backwards in giving itself praise for its cat management program. With the introduction of the Cat By-law, Mitcham Council is now becoming widely recognised as a leader in cat management controls and other Councils are considering following Mitcham Council’s example given the successful outcomes being achieved. … Mitcham Council is being seen […]
Continue readingMay 10, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs
I get this feedback practically daily; everyone is doing their best… what do you want pounds to do… why can’t everyone stop criticising each other and just get along? Then you see something like this – a pound who has for probably several decades maintained a 10% rehoming rate for dogs and a 90% kill […]
Continue readingMay 5, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound
I like Wyndham Council. When they discuss their cat laws, they don’t blather on about how it will be good for the cats’ self actualisation and personal esteem to be treated more like dogs. Nor do they try to peddle the notion that it is in the interest of cat kind that they are rounded […]
Continue readingApril 5, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound
The RSPCA NSW today gave the thumbs up to all of the recommendations of the NSW Companion Animal Taskforce. And why wouldn’t they? The recommendations place no extra responsibility, or requirement on them as an organisation (or, as it happens any other pound or shelter in the state), to do anything different in their animal […]
Continue readingApril 1, 2013Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I have been contacted by the Cat Haven who assure me that the following […]
Continue readingMarch 31, 2013Comments are closed.cats
At one time, there were two species of bilby in Australia – the ‘lesser’ and the ‘greater’ bilby. Now, only the ‘greater’ bilby survives. Trappers, predators (including the Aboriginal population), and territorial competition from rabbits forced the lesser bilby into extinction in the 1950s. There is estimated to be about 600 ‘greater’ Bilbys in the wild. The […]
Continue readingMarch 16, 2013Comments are closed.cats
When I was growing up, my grandfather ‘Pop’ had a small farm. It was only five minutes from my family home, so we would visit pretty much daily. He was the original dumpster diver – he’d visit the local country tip and collect building wood, fencing wire and an assortment of precious junk that he’d […]
Continue readingMarch 13, 2013Comments are closed.cats, dogs, No Kill, RSPCA
From the RSPCA NSW Facebook page… The RSPCA NSW figures for last year; Dogs unclaimed – 11,093 // Dogs killed – 4,862 Or 44% Cats unclaimed – 16,166 // Cats killed – 9,531 Or 59% While the RSPCA works to discredit those shelters embracing No Kill and promoting a lifesaving policy, and regardless of the […]
Continue readingMarch 9, 2013Comments are closed.cats
From the Border Mail… “Friendly, domesticated” cats killed in droves Just eight of the 183 cats impounded in Albury over nine months have been returned to their owners. And Albury pound assistant manager Alicia Taylor says she is sick and tired of having to put down cats because their owners can’t be bothered to claim […]
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