April 26, 2010Comments are closed.No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
I’ve been blogging for a little over two years now and one of the biggest hurdles I’ve found to strategic thought about animal welfare in Australia, is a lack of available data. It’s not an enormous ask in the technology age; pets are registered and microchipped, incoming stray pets are recorded in computer databases, and […]
Continue readingApril 22, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
First up, the blog post of the year; Fighting the inevitable: The propaganda war against no-kill People are not stupid; they understand the difference between “killing” and “euthanasia.” And the no-kill movement is not about what individual shelters do, but about a community-based effort to develop non-lethal animal population management practices nationwide. And it’s not […]
Continue readingApril 21, 2010Comments are closed.resistance
Then… The most crucial step forward in protecting our pets and animals for 100 years April 9, 2007 The Animal Welfare Act sets out new legal requirements that all pet owners must ensure five essential criteria are met. It places emphasis on cruelty prevention, and gives RSPCA (UK) inspectors more powers to prevent animals suffering […]
Continue readingApril 19, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, resistance
Animal welfare groups in Queensland were today celebrating Gold Coast City Council’s rollout of their breeder permit scheme. It even got an editorial from the Gold Coast Bulletin; The move to introduce the desexing of cats and dogs on the Gold Coast ‘by stealth’ is a law to be applauded. Critics of the Gold Coast […]
Continue readingApril 12, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, customer service, resistance
There’s lots of talk lately of licencing schemes for dog owners, to counter high numbers of ‘irresponsible owners’. The Lost Dogs Home recently introduced its own pilot pet ownership licencing scheme, while the RSPCA have been working to bring in ‘responsible dog ownership’ legislation in an effort to reduce the number of dogs abused and […]
Continue readingMarch 30, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance
Mitcham Council’s cat bylaw was passed by a 9-4 vote this week. The bylaw “aims to reduce feral cat numbers” and requires cats to be microchipped and registered, and introduces a two cat limit. So again for clarity; the bylaw aims to reduce feral cat numbers… … by targeting owned cats. I’m sorry, wha? As […]
Continue readingMarch 29, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance
It’s a great word isn’t it? Misanthrope mis·an·thrope –noun a hater of humankind. One of the things that most attracted me to the No Kill movement, was the idea that we should be challenging those things we think to be true by taking in and observing the success of others. But one of the hurdles […]
Continue readingMarch 16, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, resistance
Here’s a little trick I want you to try. Walk into your next team project meeting and say to everyone there; “Fuck you lot. By my calculations you’re not only ignorant, but determined to see us fail. From now on you’re not getting a say – I’ll be telling you exactly how to work and […]
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
When a small white dog was impounded at The Lost Dogs Home, it would have been barely noticed by management. Just one of dozens of similar small, white dogs with matted hair, bad teeth and smelly ears. A small white dog that no one cared about and who’s death could have been no more meaningful […]
Continue readingJanuary 5, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, council pound, resistance
… because it’s not fair to put anyone through this. From Post Secret.
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