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Spread the word! July National Desexing Month 2011
National Desexing Network are launching National Desexing Month early this year – in July.
Cats and dogs are safer and happier if desexed. They are less likely to roam and get into fights, or hit by cars or impounded. They are less likely to get mammary and testicular cancer, and urinary tract disease. Owners find it easier to care for desexed cats and dogs because they are more homely and affectionate. With fewer unwanted cats and dogs due to desexing, those already in shelters are more likely to find homes. Unwanted kittens and puppies will no longer have to be killed.
With the down turn in the economy, shelters and pounds around Australia are struggling with more animals being handed in, fewer animals being adopted and less money being donated to help care for them,” said Sylvana Wenderhold, NDN Director. “This leads to increased euthanasia.”
An estimated 100 000 cats and 80 000 dogs are being killed in pounds and shelters in Australia every year, and over 80 000 dogs. The best way out of this crisis is for people to get their pets desexed now, in July, before we get to the spring breeding season and an influx of unwanted and euthanased pets.
Grab your favourite recipe, dust off your chef's hat and get your mixer ready for the sweetest event of the year, Cupcake Day for the RSPCA 2011.
Registration is FREE and can be made online at www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au. Participants can set up their own fundraising page and invite friends and family to donate. Download all the resources you will need for the event here from http://www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au/downloads/qld/
On Monday 15 August, registered RSPCA Cupcake Cooks across Australia will descend on their schools, workplaces and social groups with batches of scrumptious homemade cupcakes to be exchanged for donations to the RSPCA.
The RSPCA is urging Cairns residents to take part in its State of Adoption challenge. The initiative aims to re-home as many animals as possible from the start of the first State of Origin rugby league game tomorrow to the end of the last game on July 6. To adopt an aminal visit www.adotpapet.com.au or phone 1300 364 443.
CAN YOU HELP?
Friends of RSPCA Cairns are putting an URGENT call out to the general public for kitty litter for the Cairns Shelter.
The Cairns RSPCA have lots of cats and kittens looking for homes and not enough cat litter to go around.
Please donate a bag or two to help the kitty cats at the shelter.
Cash donation also gratefully accepted.
Location of collection boxes:
Cairns Central Shopping Centre, Coles
Westcourt Shopping Centre, Coles
Brinsmead Shopping Centre, Manunda, IGA
Earlville Shopping Centre, Coles
PETstock, Mulgrave Road, Westcurt
The Feed Shop, George Street, Gorndonvale
RSPCA Cairns Shelter, Arnold Streeet, Stratford, open 7 days a week 8.30am - 4.00pm, ph: 07 4055 1487
What is Pet-D-Tect? Pet D Tect is a service provided by RSPCA QLD to help owners find their lost pets. It costs $10.00 for 10 days and it has helped hundreds of lost pets find their way home across Queensland. Pet D Tect not only gives the animals of Queensland a much better chance of being found, but it also provides a financial boost to the RSPCA helping to fund the care of animals whose owners could not be located.
If your pet is on Pet D Tect a team of RSPCA Staff and Volunteers will conduct daily searches on our internal database which includes all the found animals called in or logded on the website by members of the public, brought in by our emergency Animal Ambulance and called in by Vet Surgeries. The team will also search pounds local to where your animal went missing and your animal's file will stand out on our website with the special Pet D Tect status jumping to the front.
Here is what Pet-D-Tect can do. Read this heartwarming story.
To have the Pet D Tect team help you with your search call 1300 36 37 36, or email lostfound@rspcaqld.org.au.
