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Community Spirit: Compassion at the Animal Welfare League of Queensland - P1/2
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Welcome, divine viewers,
to Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Today, we’re going
to the Gold Coast,
a city in the state of
Queensland, Australia
to visit the non-profit
Animal Welfare League
of Queensland, a caring
shelter for dogs and cats.
Let us begin
by speaking with
the League’s Strategic
Development Officer
Ms. Joy Verrinder
about the group’s history
and activities.
The Animal Welfare
League was founded
in 1959 by a group
of dedicated citizens.
They started as a very
small group of people,
rattling cans
on street corners
with little dogs
and raising awareness
amongst the public.
And from there, the
Animal Welfare League
has grown into
an organization that now
employs over 120 people
and has about
500 volunteers, and
takes in 10,000 stray and
abandoned cats and dogs
a year plus a number of
other animals if needed
like horses and sheep
and goats and so on.
The League strongly
believes that in working
with the community
to end the practice
of euthanasia
in pounds and shelters.
A number of years ago,
we actually put
a huge survey in the paper.
And we actually
informed people
of the number of animals
that were being killed
on the Gold Coast alone,
and we asked them
did they think
that was acceptable.
And then we put up
a whole heap of solutions
that we thought
would be helpful
to prevent the number
of animals being born
that don’t end up
with a home to go to.
And we found
that obviously 99.9%
all said that it was
totally unacceptable,
and they would be
totally supportive
of bringing in de-sexing
and micro-chipping
prior to sale or transfer.
To minimize the birth of
kittens and puppies that
would end up homeless,
the League
has been reaching out
to local governments in
Queensland and working
with them on solutions.
We’ve been working
very strongly
with local governments
and state governments; it
takes a long time to work
through these processes,
but gradually people are
becoming more aware
that it is a problem.
And we’ve been very
excited in Queensland:
the state governments
are now funding
de-sexing projects
in four councils
this year and next,
and that’s helping.
The Animal Welfare
League of Queensland
provides spaying
and neutering,
along with other services
at its clinic, and
takes into consideration
the caregiver’s
ability to pay in
charging for procedures.
We’re working on
a model for the whole city,
and it includes having
a community vet clinic, to
offer low cost de-sexing
and micro-chipping
to the public, as well as
any veterinary services
that are needed.
When they can’t afford to
pay for veterinary work
our community
veterinary clinic actually
provides the opportunity
for those animals
to be treated, and
we bring the cost down
as low as we possibly can,
until we get to the point
where the person
can afford it, so that
they don’t have to
give up their animal.
So that’s the purpose
of a community vet clinic,
to be there like a public
hospital for all animals,
but mainly cats and dogs.
We have many vets now
employed, seven vets on
at any one time,
and we do thousands
of de-sexings every year,
but we also treat all other
sorts of other illnesses
and diseases in
our community vet clinic.
The League depends
on foster carers
to help fulfill its mission.
Approximately 95% of
the animals in the League’s
foster care program
are kittens and puppies.
Generally a carer
will take in the baby
for about eight weeks
and then return them
to the League.
Technology is helping
to facilitate the running
of carer programs
across Australia.
People who have
computer expertise like
software programmers
can do a huge amount.
Just recently
that’s starting to appear
in Australia, where
software programmers
offer their services
to develop foster care
databases, for example,
so that pounds and shelters
can foster out
little animals that are
under eight weeks of age.
They can then
be cared for until
they’re old enough to be
de-sexed and re-homed,
or sick animals can be
fostered out, or animals
that need a bit of training
because they’re too timid
and don’t survive well
in a pound or
shelter environment.
I think foster caring
is one of the most
important things that
people in the community
can do.
Even people who
don’t have a lot of space
or don’t want to have
a full-time commitment
for an animal can put in,
say one month caring for
a mother and her litter
of little kittens, until
the kittens are old enough
to be de-sexed
and the mother
can have the milk dry
and then can be de-sexed,
and that’s all contributing
to reducing
this oversupply of kittens
that are being born
every year that
are causing the problem
for the whole community,
with not being able
to find enough homes
for them all.
When we return,
we’ll take a look around
the League’s community
veterinary clinic.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back,
wonderful viewers,
to Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
on Supreme Master
Television.
Our show features the
Animal Welfare League
of Queensland,
a non-profit organization
that takes in 10,000
stray and surrendered
cats and dogs each year
and works in harmony
with the community
to see that
the needs of local animals
are met and
that they are respected.
The League
has created a community
veterinary clinic where
animal companions are
treated at reduced rates.
Ms. Joy Verrinder,
the League’s Strategic
Development Officer
will now show us
around the facility.
This is our community
vet clinic, where
members of the public
come for their animals
to be treated.
This is purely for animals
that are already in
their own homes, no matter
where they’ve come from.
So it’s anyone who needs
assistance with treatment
for their animals,
whether it be
regular immunization
or their animal
has a broken leg
that needs to be fixed
or needs to be de-sexed
and micro-chipped.
At the moment it’s
tick season in Australia,
which means that
a lot of dogs that live in
rural areas in particular,
end up with ticks on them
that cause paralysis,
which is really serious, so
we get a lot of admissions
because of tick fever.
We believe that every city
and shire should be
providing this service for
its animals because why
should animals miss out
when humans don’t?
There’s a public hospital
for humans, there should
be a public hospital
or a community vet clinic
for animals.
Besides its community
veterinary clinic,
the League also runs
a shelter veterinary clinic
where stray
and abandoned animals
can be treated before
they go to new homes.
You need a shelter
veterinary clinic, which
can be in the same place,
but ours
is in a different spot
on the one side.
And that’s for treating all
the animals that come in
that are abandoned.
This is Shelby
and she’s been through
our veterinary clinic and
obviously needed some
work done on her face,
so she’s got some stitches
and she’ll be healed
very shortly, and she’s
available for re-homing
so she’s in her
re-homing pen already.
And we also have Bundy
walking around
in this same environment
and Bundy’s had
her de-sexing operation
and she’s raring to go.
She’s only six months old
so she’s very excitable
and really looking for
a family to give her lots
of exercise and attention.
Hallo, darling.
It’s so good having
the vet clinic on site,
which means
you can treat all dogs,
for all sort of things,
whether it be broken legs
or injuries like this dog’s
obviously had to the face
or it might have been
a little tumor or cancer
or something that the vet’s
been able to remove,
so that then they’re ready
for re-homing.
The League is active
in reaching out
to the community
to raise awareness on
a variety of issues related
to our animal companions.
We have huge community
education programs.
We have four
trained teachers on staff,
who go out into schools,
but we have community
education as well.
So we invite the community
to come in and do tours.
We invite school children
to come in and do activities
here at the refuge, which
is quite unique, I think.
There’re a lot of animal
welfare organizations
that have school programs
where you go out
to the school,
but we strongly believe in
bringing in the children,
including high school
children, to the refuge,
so that they get exposed
to the numbers of animals
that are being
abandoned.
And they get to
wash them and walk them
and learn about
their veterinary care
and learn about
early age de-sexing, which
is absolutely essential
to prevent animal
from breeding, when
there’s too many out there.
Our catch-cry is,
“Desex, identify, train,
and keep safe,”
and we teach that
to everybody, and
encourage the community
to understand that
if everybody did those
four things, we wouldn’t
have the situation
of all these animals
being abandoned, and
ending up being killed
in pounds and shelters.
So, that’s the first thing
we believe: Communities
are responsible for
their own animals,
and they should be
informed of
what’s happening,
where they are being
abandoned and
how many there are
and how to solve it.
And we strongly believe
that every animal
values its life
and deserves to live.
And therefore
it’s our responsibility
to put every effort in
to make it happen
because they have feelings;
they value their lives
just as much as we do.
And it is inappropriate
and totally unethical
to assume that we have
the right to kill animals
just because we haven’t
managed our animals
appropriately
in our communities.
We thank Ms. Joy Verrinder
of the Animal Welfare
League of Queensland
for speaking with us about
her organization’s clinics
and community
outreach programs.
Please join us tomorrow
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
for Part 2 of our show
featuring the presentation
of the Shining World
Compassion Award
to the League and more
highlights of our visit
to the League’s facility.
For more details on the
Animal Welfare League
of Queensland,
please visit
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