March 15, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
The LDH let us know exactly where they stand yesterday. In case anyone was still hanging on to the naive hope that they might evolve to become a compassionate reflection of our pet-loving community – we now know that’s not in their plans. Onwards. Dr Graeme Smith, General Manager of the Lost Dogs Home discussed […]
Continue readingJanuary 29, 2013Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home, resistance
We are constantly bombarded with the idea that the reason there are so many pets in shelters is because there is ‘too many’ pets – that ‘irresponsible owners’ are abandoning pets in record numbers and that shelters are simply a passive victim in their situation. Pet owners are to blame! However, currently in Australia there […]
Continue readingJanuary 14, 2013Comments are closed.resistance
For the oh-good-grief files… I kill animals. I kill animals that are sick or elderly, poorly socialised, aggressive or scared. I kill fluffy puppies and cute kittens… I think of the countless animals that are relinquished to us for no fault of their own and end up in a body bag because they weren’t coping […]
Continue readingJanuary 6, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
The Lost Dogs Home in North Melbourne are currently running a ‘half-price’ adoption promotion. It has also been the Christmas school holidays – the busiest time in rescue for stray collections, surrenders and adoptions. Since Monday 24th December (Christmas eve), for two weeks, until Sunday 6th Jan (14 days) the following ‘bully breed’ dogs have […]
Continue readingDecember 28, 2012Comments are closed.attitude, Lost Dogs Home, No Kill, resistance
The Lost Dogs’ Home general manager of operations, Sue Conroy, said fewer than half of the 267 dogs lost in the last fortnight had been returned to their owners. (via the Herald Sun) And yet despite the fact over 90% of intakes are via the Home’s own vehicles, the Lost Dogs Home maintains it wouldn’t […]
Continue readingDecember 12, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Bali cat – image Flickr blueparadiseindonesia I’m in Bali at the moment, and spent a few hours last night watching the little resort beach cats do their thing. In Australia we kill cats for being ownerless. I wondered what the Bali cats would think of our ‘welfare’ ideal that a stray cats’ life is a […]
Continue readingOctober 3, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
Imagine for one moment each & every impounded pet came with a bundle of money – a few hundred dollars – around their kneck. Would this be enough to save their lives? In 2004 The Lost Dogs Home won the pound and shelter services tender for Melbourne City Council. It held the tender until 2008/09, […]
Continue readingSeptember 21, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance
Further demonstrating that ‘Getting to Zero’ Program could and should be renamed the ‘Doing What We’ve Always Done, But Now Feeling Okay About It’ Program, from the WA rep of the org; Roz Robinson ~ I work in the only “Open Admission” cat shelter in WA – we take in 8,000+ cats and kittens each […]
Continue readingSeptember 3, 2012Comments are closed.resistance
There’s a very good reason why high-kill shelters only release their animal live-release stats once a year*. And why they are buried at the back of their glossy annual report, filled with page upon page of back-patting, and a few dozen case studies where the millions of dollars of donations actually resulted in a pet […]
Continue readingAugust 2, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, resistance
Campbelltown City Council Pound has for decades been a disgrace, killing nearly everything that came through the doors. But thanks to a kick in the pants by the pet loving public, it is under transformation. Campbelltown Council general manager Paul Tosi said three rescue groups had now been approved to work with the pound to […]
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