Blacktown Meeting

[Mila's Mum]

I received the following email - just passing on this info -

Hi Everyone,

After only 3 meetings last year, instead of four, and yet more delays in producing the Compulsory Desexing Report, Blacktown Council’s Urban Companion Animals Management Advisory Sub-Committee, will meet again on Monday 13th February at 6.30pm at the Blacktown Council Civic Centre.

At the last, 13th October, meeting there was an update on the compulsory desexing report, which was that Council had met with representatives from Sydney University Vet school at Camden. It seems that Council is placing all its Blacktown Pound animal desexing hopes in the lap of Sydney University. The hold-up in the report was blamed on Sydney Uni since they had not made their submission yet.

The proposed December UCAMASC meeting was cancelled due to there being no further progress with the submission from Sydney Uni. A very convenient excuse, one in a 10 year history of excuses delaying desexing at the pound. Sydney Uni has managed to desex 10 Pound animals per week for years, and now will join the RSPCA in their CAWS project in the Campbelltown area, and is therefore highly unlikely to be able to take on more animals from Blacktown. (CAWS = Community Animal Welfare Scheme, to reduce the oversupply of animals in the community by offering cheap desexing).

Dr Deniston Stewart, a local vet and UCAMASC member, had given the Committee a list of local vets he had sourced who were willing to offer discounted desexing of pound animals. No-one seems to be asking Pound Management the question as to whether they had actually spoken to these local vets to see what they could offer.

Since the tender system (which was supposed to discourage puppy farmers and back yard breeders) has now been scrapped, it’s easy pickings for backyard breeders to buy undesexed dogs cheaply from the pound. They just have to be first in line to submit their ‘Expression of Interest’. The only thing that will discourage breeders is compulsory desexing.

A further update of the Compulsory Desexing Report is listed on the Agenda for Moday 13th Feb – will there be more excuses? Will Sydney Uni be blamed for the delay again?

There will also be an update on the volunteer program. If you are a Blacktown volunteer, you have a very clear picture of what a shambles this program has become, the result of mismanagement and sheer incompetence.

Letting Blacktown Council know that many people DO CARE about the animals in the pound, and that people are watching, has stirred Council to take action in the past , and progress has been made. Your attendance at these meetings has made a huge difference, so please, do come.

Meeting details

Urban Companion Animals Management Advisory Sub-Committee (UCAMASC) Meeting

Meeting date: Monday 13th February

Time: starts promptly at 6.30 pm (advise that you come earlier since everyone has to go upstairs in the lift - it all takes time)

Address: Blacktown City Council Chambers

62-68 Flushcombe Rd, BLACKTOWN

Instructions:

Parking: large KMart car park is opposite and there is some on-site parking too.

If parking in the KMart car park, walk across Flushcombe Road, through Council's carpark on the right hand side of the building, and go around to the back of the Council Building.

Edited May 11, 2012 by Mila's Mum

[luvinshep]

Hi Everyone....tonight is the meeting of the UCAMASC at Blacktown Civic Centre....62/68 Flushcombe Rd. Blacktown at 6.30pm....we all want Mandatory desexing at Blacktown Pound so please come along & show our Mayor & his Committee that there are a lot of people who support this issue.....it has been going on far too long we need a council's commitment NOW!!....Mandatory desexing is going to help these animals from being exploited by puppy farmers & back yard breeders who come to BP to adopt them....please come tonight, bring friends & let us show a big hands up for Mandatory desexing to help our fur friends at the pound....get there about 6.15 so we can have a chat before the meeting starts....spread the word...it is very important..:-)

[luvinshep]

Hi Everyone....tonight is the meeting of the UCAMASC at Blacktown Civic Centre....62/68 Flushcombe Rd. Blacktown at 6.30pm....we all want Mandatory desexing at Blacktown Pound so please come along & show our Mayor & his Committee that there are a lot of people who support this issue.....it has been going on far too long we need a council's commitment NOW!!....Mandatory desexing is going to help these animals from being exploited by puppy farmers & back yard breeders who come to BP to adopt them....please come tonight, bring friends & let us show a big hands up for Mandatory desexing to help our fur friends at the pound....get there about 6.15 so we can have a chat before the meeting starts....spread the word...it is very important..:-)

we want a full gallery tonight....Rescues please support this committee they are fighting for the dogs & cats you save from BP...

[rottie mum]

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS MEETING

BUMP this is realy important to the welfare of every animal.

[luvinshep]

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS MEETING

BUMP this is realy important to the welfare of every animal.

Your are right Rottie Mum....we need the support....these animals can't speak for themselves so let's speak up LOUD to help them get a second chance in life....and NOT IN A PUPPY FARM!!!