June 24, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance, shelter procedure
Cat in a cage trap, QLD: Lonely Planet images Is anyone else seeing a trend? From Queensland last year; The Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008 was passed on December 11 2008 and is designed to encourage responsible pet ownership by introducing compulsory registration and identification. The Act took effect throughout south-east Queensland councils […]
Continue readingJune 23, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
image mosippy’s photostream Question: How do laws that make free-roaming, unowned cats a target for impoundment, reduce shelter killing? Answer: They don’t City’s war on cats More than 270 cats found roaming within the City of Swan have been put down since new City bylaws were enacted. Statistics obtained by the Community Newspaper Group confirm […]
Continue readingJune 21, 2010Comments are closed.dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
From the Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader; ‘Mt Evelyn nurse slams kill Bill proposal’ A Mt Evelyn vet nurse and dog owner says she fears that increased council powers under a proposed State Government blitz on dangerous dogs will lead to the needless killings of pets. Tough new laws to crack down on dangerous dogs, […]
Continue readingJune 9, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance
Cat groups in Western Australia are celebrating, as the pledge for statewide cat laws was today unveiled by the government; Cat Haven operations manager Roz Robinson said she hoped to see laws soon to stop thousands of cats and kittens being euthanised, better identify lost animals and reduce problems caused by unsterilised cats. (ref) Local […]
Continue readingJune 8, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
The Lost Dogs Home is again calling for a ‘pet owner licencing scheme’ on the back of their efforts to develop a short pre-adoption quiz for people adopting from their shelter (I know, screening potential adopters before adoption – it’s ‘revolutionary’). “Pet Licences issued by The Lost Dogs’ Home should be made mandatory across Australia”. […]
Continue readingMay 27, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Bendigo was one of the first Victorian councils to introduce cat management laws. In the 2002/03 period the council impounded 534 cats, killing 338 of them. In 2004, they introduced a cat curfew, using the cat haters in the community to ‘teach cat owners a lesson’: 06 July 2004 – Residents will be on the […]
Continue readingMay 19, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Released tomorrow is the new ‘Code of practice for the management of dogs and cats in shelters and pounds‘ from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. With the advisory panel for this legislation featuring some of the largest and most wealthy animal shelters in Victoria, including the RSPCA VIC and Lost Dogs Home, this review […]
Continue readingMay 13, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance
As the ‘Who’s for Cats?’ program winds up for another year in Victoria, there’s been an enormous trend toward the trapping and killing of cats; In Geelong, they’re having the biggest year for cat impoundments ever: More than 3000 cats and kittens have been handed to Geelong Animal Welfare Society over the past 10 months, […]
Continue readingMay 8, 2010Comments are closed.dogs, resistance
Both the RSPCA Victoria, and The Lost Dogs Home Victoria have in 2010, been driving the idea of a ‘dog ownership test’ and licencing system. It seems like a great idea; not everybody should have a dog, so to have a dog you should have to acquire a licence. Not dog licences, like we already […]
Continue readingApril 30, 2010Comments are closed.dogs, resistance
ACA this week, told the heartbreaking story of a show breeder of chihuahuas who lost five of his beloved animals, because a pack of often roaming staffies finally managed to get themselves into trouble. They’d escaped through property fences plenty of times before but on the occasion in question last year, they bounded more than […]
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