October 26, 2009Comments are closed.council pound, mandatory desexing, No Kill
While it’s easy to demonstrate a pound model that isn’t working (see yesterday’s post), I’d like to take the time to investigate a model that does work for comparison. As they say, you can’t argue with results. Below an image that represents the City of Calgary in Canada’s intake/return/rehome rate for dogs (click to download […]
Continue readingMarch 6, 2009Comments are closed.council pound, resistance
Q: What education campaign for children are these the images for? a) A promotion for responsible pet ownership? b) Lessons on the appropriate care of pocket pets? c) A drive to improve rabbit adoptions? If you answered ‘none of the above’ and instead said this was an in-school campaign to teach kids about methods used […]
Continue readingFebruary 17, 2009Comments are closed.council pound, No Kill, resistance
Nathan’s all feisty today. And very relevant given we’re all watching Victoria realise that it’s going to be impossible to reunite bushfire pets with their families within current deadlines and start lobbying government to have the state’s nonsensical, pet-killing legislation changed. Well, there is good legislation that could overnight, overhaul Victoria’s crippled animal welfare system. […]
Continue readingNovember 23, 2008Comments are closed.council pound
From Dallas, Texas; animal shelter workers were threatened with a baseball bat when they refused to return a man’s cat to him after he was unable to afford the $132 impound fee. The No Kill Nation blog asks; why on earth are we driving people to become criminals when all they want is to take […]
Continue readingSeptember 1, 2008Comments are closed.council pound, No Kill, PetRescue, RSPCA, shel
The Australian Animal Welfare Strategy or AAWS (pronounced ‘aws’) is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, with input from state and territory governments, industry and community. The AAWS and has the goal for producing a national strategy for animal welfare in Australia. Today was the first day of their […]
Continue readingAugust 6, 2008Comments are closed.council pound, resistance
Animal management in Queensland is the talk of the town today – but is it good news about effective and compassionate animal welfare initiatives? Hardly. Instead try pounds that kill pets, support for new laws that bully owners and the demonisation of dogs – and you have a recipe that puts animal welfare completely at odds with […]
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