November 14, 2012Comments are closed.cats, PetRescue, Secret Cat
Hi there, I read with disappointment your feature on “Aussie Working Cats”. While I appreciate that not all cats are suited to an indoor only lifestyle, I think it’s important to move away from the attitude that cats can be used as a method of “chemical free pest control”. Shelters and animal rescue groups advocate […]
Continue readingNovember 12, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, RSPCA
There should be celebrations at the RSPCA NSW, but as yet I’ve not seen the media release go out. 13,000 less pet intakes in a single year! That’s around 30% less pets. Or over 1,000 pets each month that the organisation didn’t need to process. Would this leave more resources to be put towards pet […]
Continue readingNovember 12, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats
‘Open Admission’ pounds achieving amazing things in NSW (kill rates as a percentage) Cooma-Monaro – 0% for dogs, 0% for cats Manly Council – 2% for dogs, 0% for cats Mosman (Cremorne Veterinary Hospital) – 2% for dogs, 0% for cats North Sydney (North Shore Vet Hopital) – 0% for dogs, 0% for cats Sutherland […]
Continue readingNovember 11, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, council pound
Further to my post yesterday, below is the latest available figures from NSW pounds, this time for cats; NSW Council Pound Intakes & Release Rates 2010/11 – CATS The pounds below didn’t take in any cats, which when outcomes are generally so bad, is actually a very good thing; How does your local pound perform […]
Continue readingNovember 8, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, Lost Dogs Home
The faceless dog “The Lost Dogs’ Home has had quite a high number of dogs arrive at the shelter over the long weekend, especially after the storms yesterday! If you have lost your dog and think they may have been brought to The Lost Dogs’ Home, please come to the shelter and take a look, […]
Continue readingNovember 5, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs
Further community anger at the RSPCA NSW, this time for taking credit for placing pets in homes, whom it actually killed; Mr Twining said the two dogs that he knew about, Reg and Max, had been put down in May. “When the RSPCA (Nowra) published this on Facebook saying these dogs had found their forever […]
Continue readingOctober 11, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, No Kill, RSPCA
From the Canberra Times today; The ACT branch of the RSPCA has sought to distance itself from its NSW counterpart by showing it is euthanasing a far smaller percentage of dogs. The latest figures show that the RSPCA in the ACT had to put down 6.5 per cent of all dogs received by it last […]
Continue readingOctober 8, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Australian animal lovers are often berated with the idea that people in the United Kingdom are more ‘responsible’ and that we Aussies are all to be blamed for our high pound kill rates. It is also often purported that the pet industry in the UK is less ‘saturated’ and that thanks to their more ‘responsible’ […]
Continue readingSeptember 21, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance
Further demonstrating that ‘Getting to Zero’ Program could and should be renamed the ‘Doing What We’ve Always Done, But Now Feeling Okay About It’ Program, from the WA rep of the org; Roz Robinson ~ I work in the only “Open Admission” cat shelter in WA – we take in 8,000+ cats and kittens each […]
Continue readingSeptember 8, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW has a problem – between the months of September to April, their pounds fill to bursting with the offspring of the unowned cat population. So enormous is this problem that of the 20,703 cats admitted to RSPCA NSW shelters, 13,031 (about 65%) we’re killed. Of these cats, 80% were killed for being […]
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