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		<title>Inquiry into the Legislative and Regulatory Framework Relating to Restricted Breed Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 27th May, the Victorian State Government fulfilled an election promise to hold an inquiry into those sections of the Domestic Animals Act which deal with restricted breed dogs (commonly called breed specific legislation (BSL). You can read the media release from the Premier Daniel Andrews here. On June 1, the the Victorian Government&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Report of the investigation into the Lost Dogs&#8217; Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Context The Victorian Government has released its report of the audits conducted at the Lost Dogs Home (LDH) sites (you can find it here: http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/296911/LDH-report-March-2015.pdf.  The audit was announced on January 29, 2015. (http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/government-orders-investigation-into-lost-dogs-home) following public outrage over the Lost Dogs’s Home killing two little dogs, Fonzie and Scruffy. Fonzie &#38; Scruffy Fonzie (a 2 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Dogs Home investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Hon. Jaala Pulford, Minister for Agriculture and Regional Development announced that she would request her Department to conduct an investigation of the Lost Dogs Home, the internet went  wild. Animal lovers, rescue groups and advocacy organisations have been agitating for change at the Lost Dogs Home (LDH) for at least a decade and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Five vital skills for rescuers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt So you want to be a rescuer? And by rescuer I mean the person who is the rescue frontline, organising foster spaces, adoptions, transport and animal release. What skills do you think you’ll need? I’ll [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The torment of precautions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[adoptions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. Napoleon Bonaparte In my other life I sometimes teach emergency risk management. Essentially risk management is a decision-making tool allowing you to map a possible hazard against its likelihood and consequence in order to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Every letter deserves a reply</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a letter making its way around rescue groups, ostensibly written by an anonymous &#8220;shelter manager&#8221; in South Carolina in the US.  It&#8217;s one of those internet things that pop-up on Facebook and forums so that everyone can indulge in a bit of recreational outrage. Presumably the author was venting his/her frustration and anger [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the sums on pet over-population</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. S. Gudder 63% of 7.5 million households in Australia have a cat or dog.* That is 4,725,000 households have one or more pets, one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world. Let’s assume that each [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do companion animals die in pounds?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is that companion animals die in pounds because pounds see killing as a solution. The reason why an animal dies in a pound has little correlation to why it ends up in a pound. There is quite a lot of good research about why animals end up in pounds; it&#8217;s often about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrap value</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.~Gregory Benford, Timescape  The reality for many, if not most, rescue groups, is that we are beggars at the gates of the shelters and pounds, dependent on their good will to save lives. We plead with them to give us animals, turning a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the irresponsible public?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are at all interested in the welfare of companion animals and read blogs or rescue sites, you&#8217;ll quickly realise that one of the most common, if not the most common, theme is the &#8220;irresponsible public&#8221;. Over and over again passionate advocates of companion animal welfare rail against the “irresponsible” public; tell stories of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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