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  • Professional cat trappers rubbing their hands with delight, counting down to new cat laws

    WA cat trappers are standing by, ready to help government with their cat management programs from November 1. 'Must trap feral cats' Local government areas should implement a trapping strategy if feral cats become a problem in the area accord...
  • Does it have four legs? It might be a Restricted Breed Dog

    One of the major criticisms of the Victorian Government's Breed Specific Laws judged on a bespoke visual identification guide (along with that the reality that the look of a dog being a poor predictor of that dog's actual behaviour), is that the laws...
  • The inconvenient truth about cats

    Cat owners are often blamed for unowned cats roaming in the neighbourhood. The thinking goes - if cat owners would just keep their cats confined/desexed, there wouldn't be all these cats out there in the 'wild' and shelters wouldn't have to kill....
  • A final flurry of ego and greed in Ipswich

    The Ipswich Council's pound issues have again been thrust into the public space, thanks to some ugly point scoring by a disgruntled councillor and the RSPCA Qld. Despite the Animal Welfare League having never been charged with even the smalles...
  • RSPCA Victoria – continuing to support ‘BSL’

    Today Kerser was scheduled to be murdered. Not because he harmed anyone, or had even threatened to. But because he has been determined to meet the visual criteria of a dog who cannot be registered in the state of Victoria. He has been held at the ...

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  • Professional cat trappers rubbing their hands with delight, counting down to new cat laws

  • Does it have four legs? It might be a Restricted Breed Dog

  • The inconvenient truth about cats

  • A final flurry of ego and greed in Ipswich

  • RSPCA Victoria – continuing to support ‘BSL’

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    Why champions of mandatory desexing are either ignorant or deceitful

  • No one wants to kill pets – regional NSW edition

  • Kerser – a victim of BSL

  • No one wants to kill pets – Cairns edition

  • If veterinarians were kill shelters…

  • Lost Dogs Home lost pet reclaims like winning the lottery

  • Dog attack in Liverpool

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  • No one wants to kill pets – regional NSW edition

  • Kerser – a victim of BSL

  • Dog attack in Liverpool

  • At the RSPCA NSW, a broken leg is fatal

  • Community engagement; you’re doing it wrong Port Augusta

  • New study on the accuracy of visual dog breed identification

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  • Central Highlands Regional Council’s rescue partnership saves pets

  • RSPCA NSW just like No Kill (except with killing)

  • Nathan Winograd’s Silver Lining…

  • Empty cages, empty incinerators

  • ‘Those who fight shelter reform are on the wrong side of history’

  • Getting the message

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  • Central Highlands Regional Council’s rescue partnership saves pets

  • ‘It’s not us, it’s you’. The Lost Dogs Home discusses high kill rates

  • The worst advert for an Australian rescue dogs & adoption. Ever.

  • The only two dogs in Perth

  • Sucking the joy out of adoptions

  • Our model of animal adoptions is broken

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  • Professional cat trappers rubbing their hands with delight, counting down to new cat laws

  • The inconvenient truth about cats

  • The unabated, unnecessary and unending killing of cats

  • Year 2 of Mitcham cat laws – celebrating their ‘success’

  • Shepparton Council tries adoptions instead of lethabarb

  • Wyndham to expand cat impoundment, killing

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  • Does it have four legs? It might be a Restricted Breed Dog

  • A final flurry of ego and greed in Ipswich

  • No one wants to kill pets – regional NSW edition

  • No one wants to kill pets – Cairns edition

  • Community engagement; you’re doing it wrong Port Augusta

  • New study on the accuracy of visual dog breed identification

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  • Sucking the joy out of adoptions

  • Our model of animal adoptions is broken

  • Does colour matter when it comes to cat adoptions?

  • Understanding the difference between a public shaming & an adoption drive

  • Yet another study showing free adoptions are good for pets

  • ‘Kitty Cam’ an internet sensation

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