March 29, 2013Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound, Lost Dogs Home, RSPCA, shelter procedure
In the late 1970′s in Victoria, debate raged over the killing of pound animals using a machine known as a ‘Lethanair’ chamber. The ‘Lethanair’ machine was a decompression chamber, which allowed the bulk killing of dogs. Today, we consider decompression as an unacceptable method of euthanasia, as these chambers were designed to produce decompression [...]
Continue readingDecember 12, 2012Comments are closed.cats, resistance, shelter procedure
Bali cat – image Flickr blueparadiseindonesia I’m in Bali at the moment, and spent a few hours last night watching the little resort beach cats do their thing. In Australia we kill cats for being ownerless. I wondered what the Bali cats would think of our ‘welfare’ ideal that a stray cats’ life is a [...]
Continue readingOctober 10, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, council pound, dogs, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW killed 8,209 of the 20,959 dogs (~40%) it took in in the 2010/11 year. It also killed 13,031 of the 20,703 cats (~60%). They assure us, they ‘had’ to be killed. From their Twitter; @RSPCANSW we r failing 2 put dangerous dogs out into the community & failing 2 put other dogs [...]
Continue readingOctober 8, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Australian animal lovers are often berated with the idea that people in the United Kingdom are more ‘responsible’ and that we Aussies are all to be blamed for our high pound kill rates. It is also often purported that the pet industry in the UK is less ‘saturated’ and that thanks to their more ‘responsible’ [...]
Continue readingSeptember 22, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill, shelter procedure
- a lack of positive marketing of individual pets – an inconvenient location, or opening hours – refusing to release pets to community rescue groups – a lack of rehabilitation programs for common behaviour and health issues – failures to reunited lost pets and owners – poor disease control procedures – a poorly run, or [...]
Continue readingSeptember 8, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA, shelter procedure
The RSPCA NSW has a problem – between the months of September to April, their pounds fill to bursting with the offspring of the unowned cat population. So enormous is this problem that of the 20,703 cats admitted to RSPCA NSW shelters, 13,031 (about 65%) we’re killed. Of these cats, 80% were killed for being [...]
Continue readingAugust 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
Unless you’re in a state with lifetime registration, each year you are expected to pay your council an amount to register your dog/s (and sometimes cat/s). However, our Councils are largely misusing these funds. – Money is being added to overall council coffers, rather than spent on proactive programs to keep pets out of pounds. [...]
Continue readingApril 14, 2012Comments are closed.cats, shelter procedure
Last night a call went out from the Cat Haven in Perth: “Abandoned” kittens in “distress” needing immediate help. Further updates told us the cats weren’t just in distress – they were also “diseased”. Of course the public (the irresponsible masses) were quick to rally in support. The kittens must be caught! But what no [...]
Continue readingMarch 26, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, cats, council pound, shelter procedure
I’ve been trying to find a spare moment to blog out this presentation since it ran back in January, because it was simply awesome. Do you want to stop the tragic deaths of shelter cats, and cut your shelter’s cat intake dramatically and almost overnight? Maddie’s Institute presents Shelter Crowd Control: Keeping Community Cats Out [...]
Continue readingFebruary 6, 2012Comments are closed.adoptions, advocacy, attitude, cats, council pound, dogs, shelter procedure
It’s hard to imagine that just five months has passed, since the community of Geelong demanded the killing end at their local pound, the Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS). The organisation had been defending killing for decades, citing that they couldn’t stop killing animals because they were simply not savable, they were unsocialised puppies, there [...]
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