February 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 readingFebruary 8, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill, shelter procedure
Nathan Winograd’s latest blog post examines the problems created when animal rescue groups use their private, charitable dollars to perform animal control services for local councils. It also includes an excellent background on why this ‘merging’ of rescues and pounds occurred and how it has lead to high kill pounds running under the banner of ‘homes’ or ‘sanctuaries’ or […]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, shelter procedure
The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted—a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired clichés or hide behind the myth of “too many animals, not enough homes.†Unfortunately, this one is also often times the […]
Continue readingFebruary 4, 2009Comments are closed.cats, No Kill
I *love* this guy. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. It took Jonathan Rosenberg 51 years and one wildly successful dot-com career to find his true calling. “It’s this world that’s so much more satisfying,” Rosenberg gave up computers for … cats.
Continue readingJanuary 18, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill, shel
Saving Pets blog turns 1 today! Looking back to that very first post (WA) Cat, cats everywhere!! (two exclamations, not just one :) it was easy to see that I was needing some sort of an outlet. Now, I see that starting to blog was about getting the jumble of information I had in my […]
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2009Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill
News today that NSW’s pounds killed 33,116 pets last financial year, up from 24,003 in 2006-07. That’s an increase of 9113 in a single year… Go Sydney! But seriously, what the hell is going on? Studies have shown time and time again that access to subsidised high-volume desexing programs increase people’s compliance in having their […]
Continue readingJanuary 12, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill
Two powerful posts; first read this – why we kill It explains why millions of dogs are still being killed annually in North American public shelters despite the fact that there could be alternatives for many of them. It’s because people are told it’s the right thing to do. People are told there is no […]
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 29, 2008Comments are closed.No Kill
Now xmas is over and the pressies are done with, I can tell you that the items I was wrapping earlier in the month were 400 copies of Redemption by Nathan Winograd. This is a huge donation on behalf of Nathan to the rescuers of Australia. One I think shows quite clearly that he’s not […]
Continue readingDecember 16, 2008Comments are closed.No Kill, PetRescue, resistance
My response to a DOL thread where someone posed the question; With the term PTS (‘Put to sleep’) I think we actually inadvertently sanitise/minimise what actually happens to hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy rehomable dogs in pounds around Australia each year. They aren’t ‘sleeping’. Wouldn’t it be more helpful and accurate in relation to […]
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