March 24, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude, council pound, No Kill
Ralph the Jack Russell was making his way around CQ Pet Rescue’s Stalls 4 Paws night markets with Ella and Chloe,hoping to find his new forever home. (Image cqnews.com) The Central Highlands Regional Council could view pets as garbage – driving them to the tip, shooting them and dumping their bodies. This absolutely could be [...]
Continue readingMarch 15, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
The LDH let us know exactly where they stand yesterday. In case anyone was still hanging on to the naive hope that they might evolve to become a compassionate reflection of our pet-loving community – we now know that’s not in their plans. Onwards. Dr Graeme Smith, General Manager of the Lost Dogs Home discussed [...]
Continue readingMarch 14, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy
D’ya know what saves the lives of our shelter dogs? New homes with new families. So how does this imagery grab you? Healthy, happy family pets, yeah? When we’re out there competing with pet shops and Fluffy Puppies Online, we definitely want to portray our rescue dogs just like this. Highly desirable to your run [...]
Continue readingMarch 1, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, council pound, RSPCA
It’s a long weekend in Perth. If you were wanting a member of the public wanting to adopt a rescue dog and you took a trip out to the shelter at the RSPCA WA, here’s who you would have to choose from; Monty the kelpie cross and Beasley the mix (there’s also four cats and [...]
Continue readingFebruary 25, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing
RSPCA’s half-price offer to attract cat lovers … There are 106 cats and kittens at the Orange shelter, and an overload of cats at shelters across the state, so the RSPCA has launched a half price deal. Shelter manager Marissa Clifford said many cats and kittens were in urgent need of a new family. “Kitten [...]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, marketing
Our model of animal adoptions is broken. We’re the only industry in the world who have a desire to get people to take a particular action (adopt a pet), who then build our processes around making that action difficult, unpleasant, expensive and sometimes even impossible. – When local councils want people to recycle their household [...]
Continue readingJanuary 8, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, No Kill
Open admission, No Kill shelters in the US have a problem – they’ve run out of cats! So now they’re pulling cats from other communities. This week, KCPP hit another milestone. Due to adoption numbers and help from local area groups, we were able to pull cats for adoption from another local shelter! Yesterday, we [...]
Continue readingJanuary 6, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, Lost Dogs Home, resistance
The Lost Dogs Home in North Melbourne are currently running a ‘half-price’ adoption promotion. It has also been the Christmas school holidays – the busiest time in rescue for stray collections, surrenders and adoptions. Since Monday 24th December (Christmas eve), for two weeks, until Sunday 6th Jan (14 days) the following ‘bully breed’ dogs have [...]
Continue readingJanuary 2, 2013Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, new media
Try and tell me that this doesn’t make you want to rush down and help these guys out. No berating the irresponsible masses, no hand-wringing or threats to kill pets. Lots of cute animal action. Totally upfront and honest about the situation (it’s the holidays – we’re busy!), with a clear call to action for [...]
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