April 30, 2010Comments are closed.dogs, resistance
ACA this week, told the heartbreaking story of a show breeder of chihuahuas who lost five of his beloved animals, because a pack of often roaming staffies finally managed to get themselves into trouble. They’d escaped through property fences plenty of times before but on the occasion in question last year, they bounded more than [...]
Continue readingApril 28, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Gotta love this… The RSPCA found new homes for more Staffordshire bull terriers than any other type of dog last year. The animal charity said it rehoused 507 of the 615 “staffies” and crosses it had taken into its 13 regional centres. The high number needing new homes was in part down to their popularity [...]
Continue readingApril 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 25, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions
There is no other industry in the world, which disses its own product. At least not any successful ones. Which is why we have to give up once and for all, campaigns based on how abused our pets are. Certainly, stories of abuse can be attractive to the fundraising department; they activate people’s compassion and [...]
Continue readingApril 23, 2010Comments are closed.attitude
Seth Godin’s book Linchpin changed my life. He has riffed out pretty much the whole lot and given it away free. No, not just given it away, asks people to share it. So I can’t recommend this highly enough. The April Linchpin Session (click)
Continue readingApril 23, 2010Comments are closed.dogs
Bramption (US), home of Brittany and Rambo two dogs who were seized from their owner for being ‘pit bulls’, and who after 3 months and $20,000 worth of legal fees were release because they weren’t, has been using the same approach to pit bull management, that is gaining so much momentum here in Oz. An [...]
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.cats
ACA last night ran a special on a neighbourhood of ‘missing cats’. There’s obviously someone in the area with a trap and upset owners have lost a dozen or more pets. While the story focuses on one street in Perth, they claim it is happening Australia wide. In a related story, Victorian cat groups are [...]
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 20, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Australian’s have a very unique relationship with the law. Anyone whose travelled overseas, where there is often a ‘if you don’t bother me, I won’t bother you’ ideology, will have noticed the Aussie preference to legislate against every possibility. When someone presents yet another law addressing yet another issue, it’s the Australian way to think [...]
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