October 30, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance
As No Kill animal sheltering gains momentum across the globe and more people realise that the tools and programs that have had success elsewhere not only work in Australia, but can work in their own communities, advocates are going to find themselves more and more often facing a situation of resistance. Resistance is how a […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
The Cat Protection Society in Victoria has had a disastrous weekend, with a major media outlet getting its hands on an internal document calling for the sacking of a director who dared to question why their performance in protecting cats is in the toilet. Just how bad is it? In 2009, of the 12,491 cats […]
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 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 readingSeptember 22, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Image: The Catorialist Blog If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I spent last Saturday at the WA Cat Welfare Symposium. I consider myself a bit of a cat nerd and the previous year’s symposiums had been headed in a good direction. The first year had a big focus on TNR and the second […]
Continue readingSeptember 16, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, mandatory desexing, No Kill, resistance
A regional scheme provided pensioners and low-income earners with assistance to get their animals desexed. Guess what happened next? No really. Guess what happened. A dramatic decline in the number of animals being impounded. Here’s the article because it’s just so good: Scheme helping animals In conjunction with the Walgett Veterinary Clinic and the Walgett […]
Continue readingSeptember 12, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Photo: The Daily Puppy If I were to start a charity to help homeless people, take donations from the public and purport to be a leader in welfare; and my organisation was called, The Foundation for the Charismatic, Good Looking, Healthy Homeless I think I’d have some explaining to do. Because everyone knows that it […]
Continue readingSeptember 7, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, No Kill, shelter procedure
In 2007, Nevada Humane Society launched an ambitious no-kill initiative to make Washoe County, Nevada one of the safest communities in the United States for homeless animals. And we are succeeding. Despite a per capita intake rate higher than many communities nationwide, we were the safest community of our size for dogs in the United […]
Continue readingAugust 21, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, council pound, No Kill, shelter procedure
According to their website, the Cooma-Monaro Shire Council is based in the country town of Cooma, New South Wales, perfectly situated only one hour from the Mountains, Canberra and the Coast, and only 4 hours to Sydney. A regional location, it has a population of 6,587 people and a small animal pound. It would be […]
Continue readingAugust 18, 2010Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
As you may know if you follow my tweets, I’m still in the UK staying with my husband’s family. Last night on a history show we were watching, there was a reference to a Roman archaeological dig at the site of a suspected brothel; Romans ‘killed babies at brothel’ Dozens of unwanted babies born during […]
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