August 31, 2010Comments are closed.cats
It takes a big change in mindset for an organisation to stop blaming the public and waiting in their shelter for animals to be brought in to be killed, and instead get out into their community and start working on solutions. But that’s exactly what the Wellington SPCA has chosen to do with the growing [...]
Continue readingAugust 21, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, council pound, No Kill, shelter procedure
According to their website, the Cooma-Monaro Shire Council is based in the country town of Cooma, New South Wales, perfectly situated only one hour from the Mountains, Canberra and the Coast, and only 4 hours to Sydney. A regional location, it has a population of 6,587 people and a small animal pound. It would be [...]
Continue readingAugust 18, 2010Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill
As you may know if you follow my tweets, I’m still in the UK staying with my husband’s family. Last night on a history show we were watching, there was a reference to a Roman archaeological dig at the site of a suspected brothel; Romans ‘killed babies at brothel’ Dozens of unwanted babies born during [...]
Continue readingAugust 15, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, customer service, resistance
This? Or this? From a WA animal shelter’s ‘Adoption Adviser’; The great offence that these potential adopters committed? To need some support in working to getting landlord approval to have a pet. When people willing to open their hearts and families to a rescue pet feel the only option they have is to lie to [...]
Continue readingAugust 15, 2010Comments are closed.resistance, shelter procedure
In the past pounds and shelter defended the killing of healthy, friendly and treatable pets by claiming they weren’t really ‘killing’ at all… instead they used words like ‘putting to sleep’ and ‘euthanasia’ to describe the acceptance that pets would die at the hands of those who claimed to be working to care for them. [...]
Continue readingAugust 13, 2010Comments are closed.No Kill, shelter procedure
Australia and the United States are same-same, but different. And a challenge we face in bringing No Kill programs to Australia is a pretty significant language difference between the two countries. Much of the US documentation refers to ‘shelters’ reclaiming their lifesaving role in the community. To us ‘shelter’ generally means a local, privately managed [...]
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