October 13, 2009
Let’s start with the basic facts!
Dogs go on heat 2 x a year, cats in the spring and autumn, for three weeks.
Gestation is 63 days.
There are 3 stages of labour:
Nesting – do not disturb until young are born
Birth
Placenta (afterbirth)
Breeders can be either professional and planned or accidental but both pedigrees and crossbreeds can end [...]
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October 13, 2009
Education is important as young people can make a difference.
Firstly, what do you want out of your education programme? Children will pass on your message to family and friends so make sure it is one that will help make positive changes in animal welfare.
Promote your key messages to children. They have great pester power. But [...]
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October 13, 2009
Dr. Jeff Young is a US-based believer in early age neutering.
In 1974, Leo Leiberman neutered dogs and cats at between 8-10 weeks with no advers side effects and has continued to do so.
Between 30 – 60% of people who rehome do not honour the neuter contracts and rehomed pets can be seen years later still [...]
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October 12, 2009
‘Can you save everything? Sadly no but we try’ was the opening phrase of David’s brilliant presentation.
Organisations have to make life and death decisions every day; you will always remember your first dog dying so decisions are harder as emotions are hard to contain when making these decisions.
The emotional pull of dogs is what effects [...]
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October 12, 2009
We need to understand animals to get emotional and physical balance right.
EMRA = Emotion, Mood, Reinforcement and Assessment
Its from www.coepra.org – Dennis just talked about Mood.
Mood state assessment goes from mania to despair; if you have a depressed pet you tend to overreact and over compensate. Wood Green uses this in rehoming process and it [...]
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October 8, 2009
Dr. Abdul Rahman’s topic for the day is one that will be of interest and relevant to any animal welfare organization working in a developing country with a street dog issue: dog population control.
75% of the world’s dogs are strays and they are the ones that cause people problems; they can either love them or [...]
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October 8, 2009
It’s still only 11:20am in Hungary, but it’s been all go over here already!
This morning, Clarissa introduced the conference and explained the very first conference was held in Hungary and the worry was no one ould turn up but over 100 people did. Thirteen years later we are back still helping as many organisations as [...]
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October 8, 2009
Let’s start with a recap of yesterday! The first day at ICAWC was busy with registrations and the workshops.
I hosted the ‘Building a better website’ workshop and had the ambitious aim of creating a website by the end of the two hour session.
Well that was the plan!
There were twelve people in the workshop who had [...]
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October 7, 2009
ICAWC is about to kick off, and as well as delivering a workshop on building websites and digital marketing, Dogs Trust Digital Marketing Manager Jacqui is acting as roving reporter and documenting as much of the goings on in Budapest as possible.
Every ICAWC includes the chance to visit a local animal shelter and learn from [...]
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September 23, 2009
To help all of this years delegates and those who can’t attend, but still want to get involved, stay better connected we have started a Facebook page where you can discuss the conference, talk to new friends and old and share your experiences.
Join our facebook page now.
See you in a few weeks!
Jacqui D
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