January 2011

Bumpdate

January 24, 2011Comments are closed.shel

As my ‘bump’ gets bigger and my attention span gets smaller, I’m winding back blogging to spend with my family and prepare for our upcoming arrival. I have a few ideas for posts that may need to be written before I can say goodbye for good, but for now I’m on a semi-break and look [...]

Compassionate animal management – how ‘the system’ can be designed to save pets

January 11, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, council pound, No Kill, shelter procedure

I saw Mitch Schneider speak last year – he wasn’t a ‘rescuer’, but the upper management of animal control. He had realised that treating the community like the enemy and blocking rescue was leaving his pound full. He said “what kind of crap boss am I, if I’m forcing my staff to kill pets, be [...]

More on ‘overbreeding’ of dogs in Australia

January 6, 2011Comments are closed.advocacy, dogs

A lot of time is spent lamenting the ‘overbreeding’ of dogs in Australia and its implications to shelter and pound intakes. “Irresponsible pet owners access puppies too easily and then abandon them” the theory goes, “if we could restrict the number of puppies bred each year, less would end up in shelters.” Anyone who reads [...]

Will 2011 be the year we drop the unhelpful mantras & focus on saving lives?

January 4, 2011Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, customer service, dogs, No Kill, resistance

With the dawning of a new year, we have the chance to reflect on the ideas of the past and take a serious look at what has worked and what hasn’t. It makes sense that things that aren’t working get ditched – though this is often easier said than done. Some of our most unhelpful [...]