September 29, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, cats, marketing, No Kill, volunteers
Image: Labhlakshmi.com Each spring and summer across the country, thousands of cats and kittens enter a shelter system that is already overloaded. To avoid having to kill the majority of these animals, there are things shelters can be doing in the months leading up to this busy season. Here’s a plan that any shelter could [...]
Continue readingSeptember 28, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, volunteers
You have some dogs that need homes. Do you a) kill them or b) host an adoption event on a Sunday and tell people about it? RSPCA adoption day a hit Gladstone folk opened their hearts and their homes yesterday by adopting six orphaned dogs at the RSPCA monthly dog adoption day. The fourth adoption [...]
Continue readingSeptember 27, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, marketing, new media, No Kill
If you haven’t already; check out this OK Go clip, featuring some amazing rescue dogs (background on the clip here); Not only is it an absolutely fantastic hat tip to rescue, with clearly happy dogs doing ‘doggy’ things, this video is a bit of a microcosm for what is happening right now in the rescue [...]
Continue readingSeptember 24, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Warning readers; this made my bile rise so you might want to go grab a cup of tea before you get reading. For the past 19 years, Whyalla Council has killed animals via carbon monoxide from an old Holden motor. Prior to the gassing, Council killed dogs by shooting them in the head and cats, [...]
Continue readingSeptember 22, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Image: The Catorialist Blog If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I spent last Saturday at the WA Cat Welfare Symposium. I consider myself a bit of a cat nerd and the previous year’s symposiums had been headed in a good direction. The first year had a big focus on TNR and the second [...]
Continue readingSeptember 16, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, mandatory desexing, No Kill, resistance
A regional scheme provided pensioners and low-income earners with assistance to get their animals desexed. Guess what happened next? No really. Guess what happened. A dramatic decline in the number of animals being impounded. Here’s the article because it’s just so good: Scheme helping animals In conjunction with the Walgett Veterinary Clinic and the Walgett [...]
Continue readingSeptember 14, 2010Comments are closed.cats, resistance
In WA last year, new laws were drafted that would force WA cat owners to sterilise and microchip their pets. Which would have little effect the majority of WA’s cat owners, as they are overwhelmingly compliant already; RSPCA spokesman Richard Barry yesterday applauded the move. “In WA there are about 10,000 cats and kittens euthanased [...]
Continue readingSeptember 13, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs, resistance, shelter procedure
Whyalla Council Pound in SA is under fire for using a gas chamber to kill the community’s stray pets; “A lot of people were upset when they heard that abandoned animals were euthanased via gassing chamber,” Mr Pollock said. … Senior legislation compliance officer Ronald Versteegh said three alternatives would be explored, including injection of [...]
Continue readingSeptember 12, 2010Comments are closed.cats, dogs, No Kill, resistance, shelter procedure
Photo: The Daily Puppy If I were to start a charity to help homeless people, take donations from the public and purport to be a leader in welfare; and my organisation was called, The Foundation for the Charismatic, Good Looking, Healthy Homeless I think I’d have some explaining to do. Because everyone knows that it [...]
Continue readingSeptember 10, 2010Comments are closed.attitude, dogs, shelter procedure, volunteers
This is just fantastic; More than 100 dogs per year will be given a second lease at life thanks to inmates at the John Morony Correctional Complex. NSW Minister for Corrective Services, Phillip Costa, joined Londonderry MP, Allan Shearan, to launch the initiative last week, which will see selected John Morony inmates assist in the [...]
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