January 27, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, mandatory desexing, shelter procedure
It seems like a solid argument; if we don’t stop the leak, then we’ll never be able to stop mopping the floor. And this is the justification used when animal welfare groups set about to develop regulations to help stamp out over-breeding by backyard breeders and puppy farms. Of course everyone wants to see an […]
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2009Comments are closed.mandatory desexing
After concerns by the RSPCA that compulsory registration would see 70% of cats killed in Alice Springs, it seems today that even those driving the new legislation admit that it’s not actually able to get people to be more responsible. Mammoth fail! .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Just two dozen cats have been registered and tagged under the Alice […]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2009Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, No Kill
… comments from Gina Spadafori of Pet Connection blog. Comment from a reader; Thanks for the great article. I also just ordered his book (Winograd’s) The only thing I have an issue with is: “The animal movement has been living with the notion that despite all the evidence to the contrary that Americans are irresponsible […]
Continue readingDecember 2, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, mandatory desexing, resistance, WA Cat Laws
Good reasons to bring in a law; It’ll work. It doesn’t disadvantage poor people. It’ll work. Bad reasons to bring in a law; You’re angry at your community. There is easily manipulated hatred of animals to fuel your campaign. It’s easy to slide by the people in power who don’t know any better. Bad law […]
Continue readingOctober 24, 2008Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing
News from the Australian Institute of Animal Management conference in Darwin, that hot on Tasmania’s heels, South Australia is also reviewing their companion animal legislation with view to strengthening their laws. SA’s preferences presently look like this: microchipping of all dogs and cats by a specified date or microchipping of dogs and cats at first […]
Continue readingOctober 2, 2008Comments are closed.mandatory desexing
The mantra ‘desex! desex! desex!’ makes a lot of sense when your shelter is killing pets by the hundreds; so it’s almost a natural progression to start to think ‘if everyone was made desex their pets, then we wouldn’t have all these homeless pets to kill’. And it does seem like a solution when you […]
Continue readingMarch 24, 2008Comments are closed.attitude, mandatory desexing
In America they’re debating on whether or not laws should be made to crack down on wearing baggy pants (no pun intended). I’m not joking – in twelve states, ordinances have been passed requiring people to pull up their pants or face fines or jail time. It’s an issue of respect. It’s an issue of […]
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