November 28, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, dogs, RSPCA
You’re only a baby. Your skin is cracked, your body hurts & the people you’ve been relying on don’t seem to care about you at all. Then you end up in a shelter. What happens next? Does your story continue with compassion, care & a second chance to be all that you can be – […]
Continue readingNovember 12, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, RSPCA
There should be celebrations at the RSPCA NSW, but as yet I’ve not seen the media release go out. 13,000 less pet intakes in a single year! That’s around 30% less pets. Or over 1,000 pets each month that the organisation didn’t need to process. Would this leave more resources to be put towards pet […]
Continue readingOctober 11, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, dogs, No Kill, RSPCA
From the Canberra Times today; The ACT branch of the RSPCA has sought to distance itself from its NSW counterpart by showing it is euthanasing a far smaller percentage of dogs. The latest figures show that the RSPCA in the ACT had to put down 6.5 per cent of all dogs received by it last […]
Continue readingOctober 10, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, council pound, dogs, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW killed 8,209 of the 20,959 dogs (~40%) it took in in the 2010/11 year. It also killed 13,031 of the 20,703 cats (~60%). They assure us, they ‘had’ to be killed. From their Twitter; @RSPCANSW we r failing 2 put dangerous dogs out into the community & failing 2 put other dogs […]
Continue readingOctober 1, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, No Kill, RSPCA
Regular readers will know I love a good numbers crunch, so when on SBS’s Insight the other night Steve Coleman, RSPCA NSW CEO, said; I was delighted. And as it turns out, it wasn’t that that difficult. So first we look at the number of intakes killed; RSPCA NSW – Number of intakes killed Cats […]
Continue readingSeptember 8, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW has a problem – between the months of September to April, their pounds fill to bursting with the offspring of the unowned cat population. So enormous is this problem that of the 20,703 cats admitted to RSPCA NSW shelters, 13,031 (about 65%) we’re killed. Of these cats, 80% were killed for being […]
Continue readingJuly 1, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA, TAS Cat Laws
Tasmania’s new cat management laws come into effect today and rather than the usual palaver where the RSPCA pretend they’re looking out for the cats, they’ve jumped straight into the benefits – getting someone else to do the killing; Under the laws only registered cat owners will be allowed to breed the animals to reduce […]
Continue readingMay 12, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, Lost Dogs Home, resistance, RSPCA
One of the things we need to decide as a community is just how much killing we’re willing to accept from our pounds and shelters. Because of the enormous diversity in how these organisations operate, we have shelters who choose to kill very few animals (either low kill, or No Kill shelters) and those who […]
Continue readingMarch 30, 2012Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming, RSPCA
Nathan Winograd’s ‘Redemption’ details the great betrayal of animals which took place in the early 20th century when the ASPCA, lured by the promise of regular income, abandoned their traditional platforms of advocacy and cruelty prosecutions in favour of running animal pounds on behalf of cities. This compromise of principals (moving from animal protection, to […]
Continue readingMarch 23, 2012Comments are closed.council pound, RSPCA
Toby – is available for adoption at the Rutherford (Newcastle) shelter. While an incredibly unflattering shot, he is one of the few animals who actually *has* a photo. …………….. Back in February the Land and Environment Court dismissed the Society of Companion Animal Rescuers (SoCares) appeal against Cessnock Council’s decision to outsource its animal pound […]
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