March 16, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
“Learn about pet care” Mayor Anoulack Chanthivong feels the community is to blame for Campbelltown pound’s enormously high kill rate. Campbelltown pound is failing pets. A staggering 2,366 of their 2,593 unclaimed pets at its pound ended up dead last year. They have limited opening hours, refuse to work with rescue and release undesexed pets […]
Continue readingMarch 15, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, dogs, resistance
A blue heeler pup at Broken Hill Vet Clinic/pound Broken Hill, you have a problem. In 2006/07 you made the ‘worst of the worst’ list for NSW, killing 651 pets (or 75%) and appallingly you killed every single impounded cat. In 2007/08 you disgraced yourself again, killing even more animals – with 720 pets losing […]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, resistance
The City of Campbelltown has a population of 150,000 and a council run animal shelter which takes in about 3,600 pets a year. They were the focus of some understandably negative publicity, when council revealed in it’s 2009/10 annual report that it killed 2,269 of the 2,728 unclaimed pets at its pound. But it took […]
Continue readingFebruary 17, 2012Comments are closed.cats, council pound, resistance
Anyone who’s followed this blog knows the enormous disaster the ‘Who’s for Cats’ program has been for cats in the state of Victoria. Not only seeing a 50% increase in complaints about cats, and encouraging violence against them, but surging cat impoundments to record levels requiring millions of dollars worth of new infrastructure to ‘process’ […]
Continue readingJanuary 24, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, attitude, resistance
“… of a radical or a revolutionary is not the willingness to confront the orthodoxy and arrogance of the rulers but the readiness to contest illusions and falsehoods among close friends and allies.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
Continue readingJanuary 20, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, resistance
In the field of animal protection, with large, national organizations taking in the lion’s share of resources for the stated purpose of helping animals even as they use that money and influence to undermine the No Kill cause – the need for the public and activists to become more savvy – to learn to read […]
Continue readingJanuary 18, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, resistance
Photo: BBC News The RSPCA UK message about free-roaming cats is simple; if it’s happy, leave it be. If the stray cat is not friendly, it may be feral or semi-feral. Feral and semi-feral cats are able to look after themselves and, so long as the feral cat is healthy, leaving it alone may be […]
Continue readingDecember 31, 2011Comments are closed.cats, dogs, resistance
The Lost Dogs Home is circling the wagons to defend themselves from the public questioning of their high kill rates and multi-million dollar budget as presented in their annual report, deleting posts from Facebook and locking down their fan page. However I did receive the following response when I asked some questions: “Hi Michelle, as […]
Continue readingDecember 29, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, dogs, resistance
Image: The Lost Dogs Home – The Herald Sun How many pets would you expect to see saved in a year with a budget of over $12 million dollars? $12 million dollars is a veritable fortune in animal welfare circles. From the tiniest rescue group working on a shoestring, through to the grandest private shelter; […]
Continue readingNovember 27, 2011Comments are closed.No Kill, resistance
For the last several decades, as the animal sheltering system in Australia grew into an industry supporting multimillion dollar charities, we were told the reason for shelter killing was simple; ‘bad pet owners’. We were told the shelters were the victims in the situation, forced to do the irresponsible public’s dirty work and that they had […]
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