January 10, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs
Greater Shepparton City Council is in the media this week, after the public outcry over a dog being held in their premises over the Christmas break with a striking eye injury. Council remains baffled as to why anyone cared about – this (warning graphic image); SA council spokeswoman said it was unclear why the dog […]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, No Kill
Open admission, No Kill shelters in the US have a problem – they’ve run out of cats! So now they’re pulling cats from other communities. This week, KCPP hit another milestone. Due to adoption numbers and help from local area groups, we were able to pull cats for adoption from another local shelter! Yesterday, we […]
Continue readingJanuary 6, 2013Comments are closed.cats, Lost Dogs Home
The Lost Dogs’ Home is celebrating a very exciting, landmark event – the completion of our newly constructed $2.35 million The Lost Cats’ Home. Since the Domestic Animals Act was introduced in 1996, there has been a huge increase in the number of cats and kittens being admitted to the Home. Councils began to implement […]
Continue readingJanuary 4, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, cats
Sometimes really useful debates happen, but then get lost on Facebook. Here is a good one I had yesterday; “What we have now is a problem where because humans neglected that duty to their pets and let the animal run wild because we didn’t give a damn about them. The problem with cats eating wildlife […]
Continue readingJanuary 1, 2013Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
For many years I have been trapping cats and giving them to (WA cat welfare organisation – name removed). I have been paying for the surgeries and have done so for many cats and they have been returned to the place where they were living. (WA cat welfare organisation) have now told me they will […]
Continue readingDecember 28, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, marketing
The colour of a cat’s coat has been traditionally linked to its personality. Studies on whether these cat-colour-personality assertions are accurate have been mixed, but a study of 130 adoptable cats in a shelter in Florida, on their responses to being handled by strangers, found no significant difference between any of the coat colours (Munera […]
Continue readingDecember 21, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
100 cats (and 35 ‘other’ animals) have been ‘rescued’ from a property by the RSPCA WA. But even before the cats are in carriers, there is discussion about how many will be “put to sleep”… Watch the video… The RSPCA says that even before the raid, they were at full capacity with animals. But I’ve […]
Continue readingDecember 18, 2012Comments are closed.cats
A letter from a reader, My name is Sue and last month I found 4, 2 week old kittens at my daughters primary school garden and rescued them. They were a little weak. I was concerned that they would not pass a shelter’s vet check, so I cared for them feeding them formula and keeping […]
Continue readingDecember 12, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Bali cat – image Flickr blueparadiseindonesia I’m in Bali at the moment, and spent a few hours last night watching the little resort beach cats do their thing. In Australia we kill cats for being ownerless. I wondered what the Bali cats would think of our ‘welfare’ ideal that a stray cats’ life is a […]
Continue readingNovember 20, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, Lost Dogs Home
When Dean Nicholson’s cat Bubba escaped through his front door, he searched desperately to find her. He door-knocked, put up posters and spent $500 on a pet detective. A neighbour came forward as having trapped Bubba, with the responding ranger delivering her to the Lost Dogs Home. Now, Bubba was a desexed, fifteen year old […]
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