_PL_ Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 (edited) This is exactly what worries me about the new VIC govt plan to ban retail sales of animals that haven't come from a registered breeder or a shelter/pound. There's zero mention (that I can find) of any planned changes to the way this mega-pound works. Who is going to make sure pounds have to co-operate? How are pets supposed to get a second chance when the entrenched attitude is that euthanising them is so much easier and cheaper? Last I looked they had just 21 dogs up for adoption. There are NSW pounds and small private rescue groups with more than that: running on less money, no million+++ dollar shelter... and still managing to assess and vetwork their dogs properly. Edited December 8, 2014 by Powerlegs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 I appreciate that staff can't always identify genuine and non-genuine surrenders but it seems they failed to follow their own processes - Scruffy's info wasn't in their system (or staff were lying to the family who called about him) and he didn't fulfil his waiting period, which I assume is there to assist people who may have erroneously surrendered their pets or who surrendered under duress or during an emergency and that has changed. How hard is it to follow the processes in place even if you can't mind read the clients? I really hope this family pursues LDH legally and makes them pay in some way for their failures to protect this poor dog. Nothing will change while they continue to get away with preventable crap like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Little Gifts, from what we have seen of this outrageous organisation over the years, I would doubt that any proper process was followed. This little dog never stood a chance from the second his owner walked through the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Here's a scary one from over the weekend. A dog was picked up in Lara, near Geelong, in the GAWS catchment area. For some reason, the finder took the dog to a vet who then transferred the dog to LDH. No idea who or where the vet is but the dog is now at LDH where the owners would not think to look. Plus, the dog is a large brindle bull type crossbreed. What are its chances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Unless the owners are super sleuths, none :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Well, just saw some good news. After some heavy duty sharing on social media the post about the dog reached the neighbour of the owner. Dog now home, thankfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Well, just saw some good news. After some heavy duty sharing on social media the post about the dog reached the neighbour of the owner. Dog now home, thankfully. Now that is good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simply Grand Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Is there no legal requirement for a cooling off period after surrender in Vic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame Aussie Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 (edited) Is there no legal requirement for a cooling off period after surrender in Vic? I don't believe so. At some places it's a 24 hr turnaround. Edited December 8, 2014 by Dame Aussie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valbitz Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Is there no legal requirement for a cooling off period after surrender in Vic? As far as I know if an animal is surrendered in Vic it can be PTS straight away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simply Grand Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 That's a real shame. The ACT Companion Animals Act stipulates a 72 hour period between surrender and when the animal becomes the property of the organisation it's surrendered to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 The same thing happens at the RSPCA at Yagoona (Sydney) - surrenders can be being euthed even as the owner is leaving the building... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT RESCUE Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 The time frame is the difference between who cares and who don't, I have found most pound try as much as they can to save them, with the others they don't. At the moment I am getting so many people wanting Jacks from Victoria and asking why there isn't any down there, and I tell them because they kill them because they can, which is terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 You'll often see on FB pages which feature dogs in pounds ..... XYZ is a surrender so is urgent. ACT sounds so much more enlightened than many other places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavNrott Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The same thing happens at the RSPCA at Yagoona (Sydney) - surrenders can be being euthed even as the owner is leaving the building... T. Yes, this is usually the case with an owner surrender. An owner surrender is not dealt with the same way as a lost dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavNrott Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 It would appear that the LDH operates the same way as PETA. They employ euthanasia to reduce the stray dog population. Why people donate money to this mob I will never understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Memory just popped into my head. Does anyone remember (is it still going??) Dogs Life! Magazine. I was addicted when it first came out, but after a couple of years it was just a repeat with different packaging and twice as expensive. However, I have never forgotten one heart wrenching letter. A woman wrote about how in a moment of having difficulty coping with everything that was happening in her life, she surrendered her dog, a staffy if I recall properly, to the pound. Shortly afterwards, she really regretted what she'd done, went back to the pound, but the dogs had been already euthanised. She admitted that she had to live with that for the rest of her life. That said, I do know that a lot of people will walk away without a backward glance or a nano second of regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 It would appear that the LDH operates the same way as PETA. They employ euthanasia to reduce the stray dog population. Why people donate money to this mob I will never understand. Most strays are owned by someone who just doesn't know how to find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame Aussie Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I'm a bit jaded :laugh: least I admit it, but it really isn't hard to find out where to look for a lost animal these days. I see people surrender animals every day without even a second of giving a toss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simply Grand Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I agree Aussie, plenty of strays in ACT that would be pretty easily found if you were looking as well as quite a few where the owner is actually contacted but doesn't bother to turn up to collect it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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