January 30, 2015Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound
Stats, stats, stats. Nothing else makes many in animal welfare more cray-cray, than the idea that we should be strategising based on figures, not feels. Meanwhile, from the number of cats that can reproduce on a hot day, to the number of pets produced by puppy farms who are shipped by Fedex direct to dog fighters; […]
Continue readingJanuary 18, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
* * * * *Update 20th January: Eating crow Article title ‘Angus Needs to go Home’ changed to ‘Angus’. Angus hasn’t gone home. He’s not on the couch sleeping as his owner told me last night. He’s not happy and healthy at home – hanging out with his family. He’s still at the Lost Dogs Home. […]
Continue readingJanuary 13, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home
One of the basic tenets of animal ‘sheltering’ is to offer pets shelter. If something goes wrong with the pet/owner relationship, shelters are the ones the community expects – and pays handsomely – to step in and protect the animals. Sometimes this will be because a pet is lost. Sometimes it is because the pet is […]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, marketing
Most pounds don’t need a facebook page. They really don’t. News that this month, Facebook has again dropped the organic reach of ‘pages’ – or the vehicle most pounds and shelters use on social media to promote their pets. Now we’re bringing new volume and content controls for promotional posts, so people see more […]
Continue readingJanuary 5, 2015Comments are closed.council pound
Something happened over this new year’s eve break that I’ve never seen before. People who’d found fireworks startled dogs, had gone to their computers and asked their Facebook friends what they should do with the animal they now had in their lounge room. Their friends had found regional lost and found pages, also on […]
Continue readingDecember 22, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Shelters and rescue are busy at christmas. The whole ‘puppy farm’ thing – heartless people getting new puppies dumping their old dog at the shelter. People not being able to get holiday accommodation, not willing to miss their Christmas parties, selfishly dumping pets at the pound. Dogs going stray and not being collected because […]
Continue readingDecember 14, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
It’s not well known, but many council pounds close their doors from Christmas Eve, through to New Years Day. During these eight days staff take holidays, leaving no one to process impounded animals for adoption. So the week before Christmas becomes not so jolly for the pets. Pound staff will have a ‘clean out’ in the days before […]
Continue readingDecember 11, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
Institutionalised cruelty can only be remedied by a massive shift in expectations, asserted by explicitly specifying new requirements, coupled with legislation to force those maintaining the status quo to change. NSW pounds are some of the most craptastic in the country. Which is completely out of line with the expectations of pet lovers of […]
Continue readingDecember 2, 2014Comments are closed.council pound
You probably wouldn’t think twice about offering a reward for the safe return of your lost pet – $1,000, $2,000, $5,000 or more. Well, I’m here to tell you rewards, lost and found posters – even pet microchips – are all a backup plan. The only thing that will make sure your pet is […]
Continue readingDecember 1, 2014Comments are closed.council pound, WA Cat Laws
Dardanup Shire Council had recently increased the powers of rangers to seize owned cats, making major additions to the existing state-wide Cat Act. The ‘Keeping and Control of Cats Local Law 2014’, was to include confinement, with cats found to be not ‘controlled’ by their owners caught by rangers and their owners fined. 2.1 Cats in public places (1) A cat […]
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