If you are at all interested in the welfare of companion animals and read blogs or rescue sites, you’ll quickly realise that one of the most common, if not the most common, theme is the “irresponsible public”. Over and over again passionate advocates of companion animal welfare rail against the “irresponsible” public; tell stories of […]
If you read much about animal rescue or follow a lot of Facebook about animal rescue, you’ll possibly come away with the impression that rescuers are like Florence Nightingale in the Crimea; toiling away knee deep in gore and horror, reeling from one story of despair and misery to another. Drenched in the blood of […]
The image here is one I created using the headlines from 3 pages of Google results searching for the information on whether people really do dump their pets at Christmas. The “fact” that there is a huge influx of dumped and abandoned pets is so common and so often replicated by animal shelters, pounds and […]
“The Public is merely a multiplied ‘me.’” Mark Twain If you are at all interested in the welfare of companion animals and read blogs or rescue sites, you’ll quickly realise that one of the most common, if not the most common, theme is the “irresponsible public”. Over and over again passionate advocates of companion animal […]
