February 26, 2010Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
The Paxton‘s have piles of shit raining down on them. Seems fitting given that’s what their dogs have been living in. RSPCA swoops on puppy farm as public outrage builds The RSPCA last night raided a puppy farm exposed in a damning council report amid public outrage over the suffering. Geelong Advertiser readers yesterday demanded [...]
Continue readingFebruary 26, 2010Comments are closed.cats
I’ve been waiting with baited breath (badum ching!) for this report to come out; a ‘Review of cat ecology and management strategies in Australia’ by the eradication happy Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre. And while the topic of how to best dispatch cats is a bit pithy, it does shed some light on the situation [...]
Continue readingFebruary 22, 2010Comments are closed.customer service, shelter procedure
A council’s animal management department can be a huge asset to its community; working to keep its public safe, offering a service that protects people and their animals and leading the way in compassion. Or it can work against its public, seeing them as an enemy that needs to be coerced with more laws, more [...]
Continue readingFebruary 20, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing
Why mandatory desexing fails to save the lives of pets; In her article, Davis wrote, “On February 12, 2008, The City Council of Los Angeles passed a law that requires all cats and dogs in the city be spayed or neutered (desexed) after the age of 4 months (with some exceptions).” Unfortunately, Davis failed to [...]
Continue readingFebruary 19, 2010Comments are closed.fundraising, volunteers
Give some volunteers posters and shopping lists and get them out their doing the food shopping for you! EZ Food Drive Success 400 pounds of pet food collected in three hours Focus on Felines Campaign specialist Shelly Kotter, along with Shannon Riddle, Four Directions community cat program coordinator, and a handful of volunteers spent half [...]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2010Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
Now, before you read this just remember, Pets Paradise made a cool $80 million dollars profit last year from pet and pet product sales. Heart money Cally Loridas and puppy Harry were born with the same heart condition. A Berwick girl is using all of her pocket money to kick start fundraising efforts for a [...]
Continue readingFebruary 18, 2010Comments are closed.pet shops/puppy farming
Planning Application 2008-047; Mr. L. Paxton; Use of the Land to Keep 30 Dogs (Animal Keeping); 456 Marshalls Lane, Beremboke Approval is sought for the use of the property for the keeping of thirty (30) dogs (Animal Keeping) in a Farming Zone. This application is retrospective and the use of the site for animal keeping [...]
Continue readingFebruary 17, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude
I sometimes wonder if I should rename this blog to ‘the thing someone said at work today that made my head explode’. Our valentine’s day promotion was a huge success. We broke the record for, wait for it, the single highest number of pets adopted in a weekend. 40 pets altogether. Great huh? Except. A [...]
Continue readingFebruary 15, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, Secret Cat
Well, not entirely; she has to share her ‘Secret Cat’ title! Research has shown that 40% of cat owners are secretly feeding a cat they don’t own. Compassionate cat-lovers across the country are giving outdoor kitties extra help. Wild, stray or homeless; whatever you call them, they’re Community Cats. Anyone who has followed this blog [...]
Continue readingFebruary 15, 2010Comments are closed.council pound
Slashdot is arguably one of the world’s most famous websites. As a provider of news for nerds and the intellectual set, Australia doesn’t rate a mention very often, but we got a mention with this: Australian Farmers Told To Dynamite Rabbits The South Australian Environment Department has told farmers that they should use poison gas [...]
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