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Death Row Pets · 4M ago

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 39,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performan
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Death Row Pets · 6M ago

“Where is the animal welfare discussion paper promised over one year ago?

November 2011. This matter is of importance to all Australians wanting to stop pound and shelter killing. Summary: What happens is this: The State  Government – for political and PR reasons – announces it will “taskforce” the subject and announce a public discussion document. Nothing happens. And so
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Death Row Pets · 6M ago

News from the US- the sun also rises in Minnesota!

Bulletin from the No Kill Advocacy Centre, May 2011 Earlier this week, we reported that the Sun rises in New York State as lawmakers introduce shelter reform legislation. Today, Minnesota Representative John Benson has introduced new rescue access and shelter reform legislation, House File 1735, cal
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Death Row Pets · 6M ago

The national G2Z Summit took place on the 7-9 September 2011

The national G2Z Summit took place on the 7-9 September 2011, hosted by the National Desexing Network. Summit papers are available to download from :   http://www.ndn.org.au/national-summit-2011.html One must-read and circulate paper describing Getting2Zero is available here. Download and read paper
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Death Row Pets · 7M ago

news from US – Texas act prohibits killing of healthy animals in pounds – The Companion Animal Protection Act of 2011

Great news to animal welfare! The Texas Companion Animal Protection Act has been implemented. Among other wonderful things, it bans the gas chamber, makes it illegal for shelters to kill if rescue can save them, ends ‘convenience’ killing and requires shelters to be truthful about killing statistics
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Death Row Pets · 7M ago

Why wont people speak up?

Last week, 2 things happened on the same day. Firstly I got an email from a person with inside information on a situation in a certain Shelter in Australia. I was given a great deal of information, but was told that this must remain confidential and anonymous. Now, I don’t know how to help change [.
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Death Row Pets · 7M ago

A guide to the ideal shelter director

Article from No Kill Sheltering Oct 2006 Until April 2005, the CharlottesvilleAlbemarle SPCA, an agency which contracts for animal control in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the target of criticism for what some in the rescue community saw as unnecessary killing. But then it all changed. In their sea
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Death Row Pets · 7M ago

Film of heartsticking cats at Geelong Animal Welfare Society

  Watch this film here…….
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Death Row Pets · 7M ago

Media statement – Geelong Animal Welfare Society protest group

Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS): Geelong Animal Welfare Reform (GAWR) will be holding a public protest on the steps of Geelong council’s City Hall commencing at 12 pm Saturday 15 October.  GAWR’s members wish to highlight their grievances with the Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS) and what
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Death Row Pets · 8M ago

Geelong Animal Welfare Society

This report summarises the situation at Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS)– a Greater Geelong Council contracted pound facility. 26 September 2011 GAWS is a private animal welfare society with a 57 year history,  (although recent events suggest that we use the term “animal welfare” rather loosely
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