December 31, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, No Kill
Dog Days Photo Blog This is a combination of both my favourite posts, and some of the animal rescue news items for 2010. I hope you enjoy! First, my favourites If I were to start a charity to help homeless people, take donations from the public and my organisation was called, The Foundation for the [...]
Continue readingDecember 29, 2010Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, No Kill
I’ve just received my copy of the 2011 Kittens and Cats Annual, which includes ‘show cats’, health articles and, disappointingly, both the RSPCA and the AVA calling for people to surrender unowned and semi-owned cats to councils and championing the ‘Who’s for Cats’ program – despite knowing council pounds and some cat welfare agencies run [...]
Continue readingDecember 27, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, marketing, No Kill, PetRescue
The videos from the Cat Alliance of Australia WA Cat Welfare Symposium from earlier in the year will be coming soon – will let you know as soon as they become available. But I’ve been lucky enough to be able to get mine. Click play below if you’d like to see it! :) Michelle Williamson [...]
Continue readingDecember 26, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, cats, council pound, dogs
When we work with pet owners, we implore them to only take on as many animals as they have the physical and financial resource to care for. If a pet owner does make the mistake of taking on too many, we ask that they seek help from friends, their community and rescue and shelters to [...]
Continue readingDecember 20, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing
Wyndham Council are having ongoing trouble with their cat laws; The council has issued 239 fines for unregistered dogs and just 13 for cats, from April to September this year. Based on the $227 fine, the total fines for unregistered dogs was almost $55,000 and, for cats, less than $3000. This council has only tried [...]
Continue readingDecember 18, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs
The RSPCA Peninsula (VIC) have lost the tender to the City of Casey’s pound services after a 15 year relationship; RSPCA state chief executive officer Maria Mercurio confirmed its tender was unsuccessful. “What we don’t know yet is why we lost it, nor do we have any idea when the new tender will take over, [...]
Continue readingDecember 16, 2010Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, No Kill, resistance
Image: Lovemeow.com Why haven’t major national animal welfare groups championed the myriad of studies showing that cats in urban areas are a very tiny, manageable pressure amongst many enormous pressures on native animals? Why do national animal welfare groups continue to align themselves with cat haters and cat trappers in the community, promoting cat ‘removal’ [...]
Continue readingDecember 10, 2010Comments are closed.cats, No Kill, resistance
I just caught the “Animal Wise Radio” interview with Nathan Winograd on the subject on TNR. I just plinked out some notes, but it’s really worth a listen (I’ll put links at the end). ……………………………………………………………………………………….. TNR, Feral Cats and Community Cats Back in the 1980′s TNR was a controversial issue. Seminars were held where most [...]
Continue readingDecember 9, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing
Over 30 years ago, Dogs Trust coined the phrase “A dog is for life not just for Christmas®”. This slogan is now a registered trademark belonging to the charity and despite being more than three decades old, still forms the basis for their xmas promotions (or lack of) this year; To help discourage people from [...]
Continue readingDecember 8, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, No Kill
There’s an interesting trend amongst animal groups. Those who kill a high number of pets tend to keep their resources as closely guarded collateral (shelter centric). While those who have pledged to make the preservation of life their highest priority, open their doors and share their resources with both the public and other groups (community [...]
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