December 1, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance, shelter procedure
Many cat ‘welfare’ campaigners advocate for things that are counterintuitive to improving cat welfare. For example, supporting Councils efforts to round up and kill free-roaming cats. Or advocating to punish disadvantaged pet owners and see their cats impounded, rather than the services to help them become compliant. The kinds of things which increase intakes and [...]
Continue readingNovember 23, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing
Circle of Blame Step 1. Have your community alert you to unacceptably high cat kill rates. Step 2. Blame ‘the irresponsible public’ for the numbers Step 2. Provide cat traps Step 3. Blame ‘the irresponsible public’ for the surge in impounds Step 4. Send cats to pounds with a 90%+ kill rate Step 5. Blame [...]
Continue readingNovember 4, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, No Kill
News today that despite having mandatory desexing for over ten years, the ACT have failed to see a decline in cat numbers: The RSPCA is calling on the ACT Government to put more funding into its cat desexing laws. ACT laws require cats to be desexed but the RSPCA says there has been a steady [...]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2010Comments are closed.cats, council pound, mandatory desexing, resistance
Kingston in Victoria has been held up by cat welfare advocates as one of the ‘good guys’ introducing in 2008 compulsory registration of pets over 3 months old and the requirement that all pets be desexed before registration… or mandatory desexing by stealth. Did Kingston have a cat ‘problem’? Well according to their Domestic Animal [...]
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 readingJune 24, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance, shelter procedure
Cat in a cage trap, QLD: Lonely Planet images Is anyone else seeing a trend? From Queensland last year; The Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008 was passed on December 11 2008 and is designed to encourage responsible pet ownership by introducing compulsory registration and identification. The Act took effect throughout south-east Queensland councils [...]
Continue readingJune 9, 2010Comments are closed.cats, mandatory desexing, resistance
Cat groups in Western Australia are celebrating, as the pledge for statewide cat laws was today unveiled by the government; Cat Haven operations manager Roz Robinson said she hoped to see laws soon to stop thousands of cats and kittens being euthanised, better identify lost animals and reduce problems caused by unsterilised cats. (ref) Local [...]
Continue readingApril 20, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, No Kill, shelter procedure
Australian’s have a very unique relationship with the law. Anyone whose travelled overseas, where there is often a ‘if you don’t bother me, I won’t bother you’ ideology, will have noticed the Aussie preference to legislate against every possibility. When someone presents yet another law addressing yet another issue, it’s the Australian way to think [...]
Continue readingApril 19, 2010Comments are closed.mandatory desexing, resistance
Animal welfare groups in Queensland were today celebrating Gold Coast City Council’s rollout of their breeder permit scheme. It even got an editorial from the Gold Coast Bulletin; The move to introduce the desexing of cats and dogs on the Gold Coast ‘by stealth’ is a law to be applauded. Critics of the Gold Coast [...]
Continue readingApril 8, 2010Comments are closed.cats, Lost Dogs Home, mandatory desexing, pet shops/puppy farming, RSPCA
I liked this idea when I saw it done on KC Dog blog and since I’ve recently installed Google analytics, I can now present… Saving Pets top five posts for March! 5) Mandatory desexing: why Victoria has it all wrong 4) Three simple actions that will change people’s perceptions of rescue dogs 3) Cats, the [...]
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