Calls for 'no kill' policy to save thousands of RSPCA animals!

Pounds are bursting at the seams with dogs and cats who, through no fault of their own, have been abandoned or surrendered. 

If you haven’t been to a Council Pound, it’s a sad experience.  Dogs frantically wagging their tails, desperate to get out of prison, to give their gift of unconditional love to a new human, forgiving everything that has been their past.

Cats are usually traumatised and have great difficulty adjusting to life in shelters and the lack of a human to love.

An organisation with a compassionate focus does everything it can to eliminate killing and find solutions for the pets who come into its care.

It does this primarily, by partnering with the community. That is, rather than position itself as a solo entity separate from the community, it instead appreciates that there is no way a single organisation can ‘solve’ the community’s pet issues on its own. Saving all pets – not just some and disposing of the rest – takes a community effort.

Of course this is not written into law. There is no law that says an organsation has to work with the community – if they choose to, management can offend, insult and bristle against community involvement. However, as we’ve seen time and time again, this comes at a huge direct cost to pets.

So you think RSPCA would be taking steps to break down some of the barriers that are interfering with their lifesaving. Engaging the local community groups already saving lives would be a good first step. In fact, during the Insight Program last year, Steve Coleman appeared to put out a sincere call for groups to stop rallying against each other and instead work together.

But year on year, the RSPCA is still refusing to work with rescue.

Support your local rescue groups and no-kill shelters instead, and tell RSPCA they need to ACT NOW!!

NSW Lost Pet Register administration co-ordinator Amanda Young said several animal rescue groups had tried to get dogs from the RSPCA to find new owners.

“They refuse to release them,” Ms Young, 25, said.
“They’d rather put them down than get them into care where someone is willing to find them a home and give them a go.”


Society of Companion Animal Rescuers vice-president David Atwell said council pounds at Muswellbrook, Singleton, Wyong and Gosford provide animals to rescue groups.


Mr Atwell said kill rates at those pounds were 8 per cent to 15 per cent And remain defiant in their decision;

“We don’t usually release animals to rescue groups, but there is no law that says we have to,” (RSPCA spokesman Lukas Picton) said.

“We can’t in good faith put an animal in the community, which may attack a child.”

With one broad brush they’ve declared that without a law mandating them to do so, the RSPCA is not going to work with local rescue groups (regardless of what they said last year when under the spotlight).

And the reason they don’t need the help of rescue is that their 40% kill rate for dogs is totes appropriate.

Oh, and that rescue groups are all extremists, putting out child-eating dogs into the community.

So while the RSPCA NSW throw grenades at their community, from their $30 million dollar a year bunker, they are able to show that they are indeed big and well resourced enough to flip the bird to life-saving programs and there is very little that small rescue groups can do about it. Good forthem.

But as more people get wise to the unnecessary killing going on behind their gilded doors, the organisation – and the organisation’s management – will go down on the wrong side of history; defending killing while their community begged them to stop.

Just one day after its 2012 Million Paws Walk fundraiser, RSPCA killed sweet, gentle Max (pictured) at their Rutherford facility. In fact, RSPCA NSW kills more than half the pets “cared for” at their shelter.
Make a choice this year. Will your RSPCA donation be used to kill beautiful animals like Max, or to save lives?

These particular RSPCA's and shelters also refuse to allow experienced animal carers and workers to assess the animals themselves simply because they know that if they allowed that, then they would be forced into actually trying to find suitable homes for these animals.

In addition, many privately owned shelters adopt, what can only be described as, cruel practices in dealing with these animals and are not regulated in any way so their inhumane practices continue to go unreported with animals even being hidden from potential adopters, rescue organisations and, in some cases, even the animals' owners and then euthanised.

There is no reason why animal rescue organisations, which use volunteers experienced in working with dogs and cats, should not be allowed to rescue/adopt these animals and be able to find suitable homes for them.
Animal rescue organisations take extreme care in who they adopt animals to which significantly reduces the likelihood of animals being impounded, lost or surrendered again.

ALL RSPCA's and privately owned shelters across Australia should be REQUIRED to work with their local animal rescue organisations to ensure the interest of the animals. That is, after all, what they claim their mission to be.

The RSPCA National Stats for 2011/12 are now available.

[Source: 
http://www.savingpets.com.au/2013/01/rspca-national-stats-who-is-saving-lives/ ] 


 


 

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