Your dog was adopted from a ‘No Kill’ rescue shelter – red dots Your dog was adopted from a pound – purple dots You are a ‘No Kill’ shelter rescue dog– yellow dots You are a Rescue Angel – blue dots Commemorating dogs killed in pounds – black or white dots Pound Dog Day is an initiative of Dogs Across Australia. It has been created to draw attention to the appalling ‘Kill’ culture that exists in Australian society. It is estimated that up to 200,000 healthy dogs are killed each year in council pounds. The Australian tax-payer is funding this slaughter. Many dog lovers are concerned that unregulated back-yard breeding, impulse buying and the lack of mandatory desexing laws creates a situation where dogs are easily bought, bred and buried. The ‘No Kill’ Rescue Shelters go to great lengths to find suitable homes for their shelter dogs. They carefully vet prospective owners and offer only DESEXED, inoculated, wormed and micro-chipped dogs for re-homing. Should their sensible approach ever be broadly adopted, there would be far fewer unwanted and neglected dogs. June 25 is also the day when we say “THANK YOU” to all the Rescue Angels who make the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of so many pound dogs possible. Print out as many stickers as you wish, hand them out to others and wear them on 25 June. Next year, we hope to offer fund-raising ribbons for sale. We cancelled this year’s order due to serious dog abuse problems occurring in the country of production. |
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