December 30, 2008Comments are closed.cats
Is your cat worth $500, or would another cat do? That’s the dilemma to be faced by cat owners in the Northern Territory, held to randsom by local councils thanks to new laws that, according to RSPCA Central Australia manager Jill Hall, are set to see up to 70% of domestic cats killed. Under the tough new registration [...]
Continue readingDecember 29, 2008Comments are closed.No Kill
Now xmas is over and the pressies are done with, I can tell you that the items I was wrapping earlier in the month were 400 copies of Redemption by Nathan Winograd. This is a huge donation on behalf of Nathan to the rescuers of Australia. One I think shows quite clearly that he’s not [...]
Continue readingDecember 23, 2008Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
 From the great xmas themed article today from the Sydney Morning Herald’s, Nick Galvin; A grim end for Christmas puppies;  Wendy West, a veterinary nurse, is the owner of a Victorian business called ACA Breeders Kennels. Each week she supplies between 50 and 100 puppies to pet shops around the country as well as selling [...]
Continue readingDecember 22, 2008Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
Ever told someone you know about the problems with pet shops? If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then I suspect you probably have. What say you, then to the claim that this makes you an activist with the efficiency of PETA and that you’re trying to wipe out companion animals? In December’s PIAA CEO [...]
Continue readingDecember 19, 2008Comments are closed.fundraising
The Network for Good has released an Online Fundraising Survival Guide that’s really fantastic; This is obviously a very scary time for fundraising – perhaps the most terrifying that many of us have ever experienced. But even when the economy looks bad, your online fundraising and marketing doesn’t have to suffer. Downturn or not, it [...]
Continue readingDecember 19, 2008Comments are closed.dogs
The Assistant Dog Care Manager, John tells Ellen how he came to be an animal lover. He then describes how he helped rescue 22 of the canines involved in the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAeQfUgPtI] And this lovely tale of a wee bulldoggy. Gosh, I love DogTown :) Finding a home for a squat’y bulldogish [...]
Continue readingDecember 18, 2008Comments are closed.new media
While most people’s only contact with chicken is original recipe and chips, those people who’ve experienced the love of a chicken, their engaging personalities and their quirky birdy behaviours, know they are one of the worlds most underestimated animals. And they are winning converts around the world. “In the same way that a dog wags [...]
Continue readingDecember 16, 2008Comments are closed.No Kill, PetRescue, resistance
My response to a DOL thread where someone posed the question; With the term PTS (‘Put to sleep’) I think we actually inadvertently sanitise/minimise what actually happens to hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy rehomable dogs in pounds around Australia each year. They aren’t ‘sleeping’. Wouldn’t it be more helpful and accurate in relation to [...]
Continue readingDecember 14, 2008Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home, resistance
As rescues across the country brace for the xmas rush, one metropolitan council has taken the perverse step of reducing their communities capacity to save the lives of dogs and cats by enforcing a law previously ignored for 75 years. Council pounces, stripping Lort Smith of its pound status Victoria’s largest animal hospital has been [...]
Continue readingDecember 12, 2008Comments are closed.No Kill, PetRescue
This week has been spent wrapping xmas gifts for PetRescue members; 204 of 400Â so far to be exact! Each one having been glued, wrapped and lugged lovingly to the post office – I look forward to being able to share with you soon what’s in the pressies! In other PetRescue news, announced today is [...]
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