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	<title>Tail Piece: reflections on animal rescue &#187; pound reform</title>
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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>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>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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