October 28, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing, shelter procedure
Remember Cassie Walker, the shelter manager who was advocating for pets in her community? Well, look at their great adoption campaign! They’re all adorable and they all need a home. Oh! Makes your heart sing! The animals at the RSPCA are all vet-checked and desexed and ready to romp about in your garden, sit on […]
Continue readingOctober 8, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, marketing
The RSPCA Million Paws Walk has been crowned the winner of the Best Charity or Cause Related Event at the Australian Event Awards 2010; The Million Paws Walk is Australia’s premier pet event and the RSPCA’s major national fundraiser. The event started in Queensland in 1994 and in 2010 over 80,000 people and 45,000 dogs […]
Continue readingOctober 4, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing
Say it with me; if you want people to adopt your pets, you have to offer more than euthanasia statistics Sad end awaits unwanted pets Cassie Walker believes by purchasing a dog or a cat from the RSPCA the number of pets being put down will drop. In the last financial year 909 cats and […]
Continue readingSeptember 29, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, marketing, No Kill, volunteers
Image: Labhlakshmi.com Each spring and summer across the country, thousands of cats and kittens enter a shelter system that is already overloaded. To avoid having to kill the majority of these animals, there are things shelters can be doing in the months leading up to this busy season. Here’s a plan that any shelter could […]
Continue readingSeptember 28, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, volunteers
You have some dogs that need homes. Do you a) kill them or b) host an adoption event on a Sunday and tell people about it? RSPCA adoption day a hit Gladstone folk opened their hearts and their homes yesterday by adopting six orphaned dogs at the RSPCA monthly dog adoption day. The fourth adoption […]
Continue readingSeptember 27, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, new media, No Kill
If you haven’t already; check out this OK Go clip, featuring some amazing rescue dogs (background on the clip here); Not only is it an absolutely fantastic hat tip to rescue, with clearly happy dogs doing ‘doggy’ things, this video is a bit of a microcosm for what is happening right now in the rescue […]
Continue readingJune 16, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
You need to join forces with other rescue groups and hold a fee-free adoption event. I know, right – but, hear me out. Unfortunately, many non-profit organizations often seem to believe that there is a limited pie of resources out there and, therefore, they are in direct competition with other humane groups in the community. […]
Continue readingJune 6, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, No Kill, shelter procedure
In today’s Sydney Sun-Herald, is a series of articles about the RSPCA and other animal welfare group’s efforts to have the sale of pets through pet shops banned. > 250,000 healthy cats and dogs killed each year > No homes for them > Pet industry ‘needs regulation’ Tighter legislation is needed to regulate dog and […]
Continue readingJune 2, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, marketing, new media, No Kill, pet shops/puppy farming, PetRescue, shelter procedure
I’ve always considered PetRescue to be a very charmed project. My best mate JB is a technical genius and an all round nice guy. My shared-brain friend Vix and I both purchased wonky dogs at around the same time (hers from a pet shop, mine from a guy in a pub carpark) who would catapult […]
Continue readingMay 29, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, marketing
Another pound using the media to get the word out about their available pets; While I’m not a fan of the associated article that details how awfully irresponsible their community is, at least these guys are trying to get the word out about the pets they have in their pound. Maybe, just like in the […]
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