Welcome to the new Saving Pets blog

Where puppies will come from in the future in Australia

WA Cat Laws results year #4 - record numbers of cats impounded in the state

Council plumber inspected AWL Ingleside, found no issue - so why is the shelter closed?

RSPCA WA Gingin raid, following animal outcomes

Petbarn give rescues over a million bucks for adopting through their stores

The real story of Benny; 'saving a loveable three-legged wriggle bottom'

The Guardian newspaper article; "NSW animal welfare inspector accepted $35,000 from puppy retailer it audits"

Animal Welfare League NSW betrays pets, joins puppy farmers

A new year's resolution for savvy rescue groups

PetRescue is a very good website

Dear PetRescue, your problem isn’t me. Your problem is you can’t be trusted.

PetRescue tests out the ethical limits of fundraising. Again

It's the middle of kitten season and there's two adoptable cats at the RSPCA WA

Rockhampton Council Rangers beating dogs with catchpoles

Tweed pound is treating pets like garbage

Celebrating four years of the WA Cat Act

Oops! Everything we know about cat management is wrong, redux

RSPCA Queensland gets into the dead pet business

Did the RSPCA WA spend $1.6 million on fundraising and make a loss?

Mildura leaves pregnant dog to birth alone in the pound

Who is the Pet Industry Association of Australia (PIAA)?

PetRescue's 'adoption policies' devalue the work of rescue groups

Lucy

Eleventy bazillion bird killing cats

Foster carers are like superhero unicorns

Rockhampton Council Pound continues to inflict suffering, illness and death on pet dogs and cats

The RSPCA declares 90% of cats as fair game for an abusive death

Brisbane cat cull probably used leg-hold traps

How PetRescue uses adopter applications to redirect rescue's donations to themselves

Killing is easy

Wodonga traps more cats - sees cat impound rate go up

Blacktown Pound to become $30 million 'No Kill' animal rehoming centre

PetRescue tests out the ethical limits of fundraising

Brisbane City Council's message to rescuers; cats aren't creatures, they're "Restricted Matter under the Biosecurity Act"

Does "The Adoptables" actually help find pets homes?

Brisbane City Council culls cats, threatens to fine cat rescuers

PetRescue.com.au management still don't get it

PAPP bait; much more humane than the RSPCA - less humane than a bullet in the chest

AWL Ingleside shelter closed, kaput

Threatened Species Commissioner Reports (updated August 2017)

WA Premier Mark McGowan regurgitates the usual animal welfare bunkum

Too many balls! July 2017

How much should it cost a rescue to save a pet that a pound will otherwise kill?

Brisbane City Council continues cat culls - declares G2Z success

How many pound dogs are there really? Ambitious Australian study the first of its kind.

Singleton knows who is at fault for their crappy pound

Pet ownership in Australia 2016 - How do we keep our pets?

The RSPCA NSW - does it work for animals?

Are you fighting to keep pounds high-kill (without even realising it)?

RSPCA tries to close and sell another rural shelter resource

Upper Hunter Council tries to muzzle pound volunteers

Saving Hank the Neo pup

How PetRescue can solve all of its rescue and fundraising issues overnight, with one small coding change.

Pet dumped like garbage by council

Feeling the cold? Take a moment to think about the animals in Singleton Animal "Shelter"

Baw Baw Council to close Utopia kennel - convert facility to pound

PetRescue's "pound reform" model is to get someone else to do it

Why can't we all just work together?

Baw Baw Pound now to cost (even more)

Mornington Council; pound information is "... not in the public interest"

Camden’s lost pets given a no kill commitment at new pound

Did cats really cause "the extinction of 22 Australian mammals"?

Cost to get Baw Baw a new pound is... wait. How much?

The RSPCA is in an existential crisis

What’s going on in South Australian animal management

Baw Baw Council invests in "innovative" approach to animal management

Mornington Animal "Shelter" is taking the Mickey Bliss

Are you enabling pounds to continue killing pets?

Muswellbrook Animal Shelter "doing all it can" to save lives

Pounds "doing all they can" to save lives

What is the one key program saving lives at RSPCA shelters?

RSPCA - when we say no kill is bad, we don't mean you (angry rescuers)

Is your rescue group planning to appear at the Million Paws Walk?

Is 'no kill' to blame for the RSPCA's failing reputation?

What happened to sweet Roxy at the RSPCA will break your heart

No Kill in Australia #2 - Nathan Winograd

No Kill in Australia #1 - Michael Linke

Why the RSPCA going fee-free is going to put your rescue out of business

The hopeful story of ‘Other Cat’

Firmly worded letters from the AWL NSW: "Everyone STFU"

Should you blow the whistle?

Irresponsible pounds put all of our pets at risk

Why rescue in Australia is burning out

RSPCA NSW "rescues" 43 cats

Griffith's new half-million dollar pound delayed by belligerent council. Your fault, obviously.

What is "Curiosity" cat bait and why you should care. Article #2

Australian government’s cat population estimates out by tens of millions

A burp from a rancid past

An opportunity in Cairns

Wyndham Council is super committed to FAIL

An animal rescue fable

How not to handle a crisis in rescue

Don't let your shelter staff write your adoption profiles

The truth about mandatory cat desexing

Pets as gifts – the same old Christmas rot

Cat agencies in crisis thanks to WA's Cat Act

Half of all stray cats caught by WA councils end up dead. But that's not the worst of it.

Mornington protesters call to end cat kill

Animal advocates protested last week against the number of pets being killed at Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Community Animal Shelter. The shelter has been criticised for its high-kill rates and for limiting the public's access to adoptable animals

Camden Council pledges a No Kill future for pets

Camden Council unanimously voted to have Camden’s Animal Care facility declared a No Kill shelter.

RSPCA NSW exploits puppy farming for end of year donations

People donate to animal welfare charities because they want to see our most vulnerable animals protected. Which is why the RSPCA NSW is asking people to donate to their #ClosePuppyFactories campaign.

RSPCA WA stops counting cats

By excluding statistics from the annual report, the RSPCA WA works to keep supporters in the dark.