Lost Dogs Home
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The Lost Dogs’ Home is an Australia
n organization with shelters and pounds
in both Victoria and New South Wales
. It was established in 1910 to provide a temporary home for Melbourne
’s lost and starving dog
s. Today The Lost Dogs’ Home cares for more than twenty-one thousand lost, stray, injured and abandoned dogs and cat
s every year and is Australia’s largest animal shelter. They also host services and initiatives to promote animal welfare
and responsible pet ownership.
The Lost Dogs' Home has drawn criticism for having a high kill rate despite its large annual profits. In 2010, they killed 13,594 cats and dogs out of 24,426 received, and reported a 2.7 million dollar profit.
s. It also operates a Boarding kennels and boarding cattery
.
As an advocacy group, The Lost Dogs’ Home promotes responsible pet ownership and has launched an online pet license program to help prospective owners understand what is required to be a responsible owner. The Lost Dogs’ Home lobbies
for fair animal laws that will decrease the number of abandoned and stray animals admitted to animal pounds and shelters.
The Lost Dogs’ Home also owns and operates an Australia-wide pet identification and recovery service called the National Pet Register. The National Pet Register issues free individually numbered identification tags and records microchip
numbers on a national database.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n organization with shelters and pounds
Animal shelter
An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats.Parrots, for example, are the third most common pet owned by people...
in both Victoria and New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
. It was established in 1910 to provide a temporary home for Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
’s lost and starving dog
Dog
The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
s. Today The Lost Dogs’ Home cares for more than twenty-one thousand lost, stray, injured and abandoned dogs and cat
Cat
The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
s every year and is Australia’s largest animal shelter. They also host services and initiatives to promote animal welfare
Animal welfare
Animal welfare is the physical and psychological well-being of animals.The term animal welfare can also mean human concern for animal welfare or a position in a debate on animal ethics and animal rights...
and responsible pet ownership.
The Lost Dogs' Home has drawn criticism for having a high kill rate despite its large annual profits. In 2010, they killed 13,594 cats and dogs out of 24,426 received, and reported a 2.7 million dollar profit.
Function
In its role as a normal animal shelter, The Lost Dogs' Home provides an adoption service and shelter for cats and dogs, accepts unwanted pets for rehoming, and traps and collects stray and feral catFeral cat
A feral cat is a descendant of a domesticated cat that has returned to the wild. It is distinguished from a stray cat, which is a pet cat that has been lost or abandoned, while feral cats are born in the wild; the offspring of a stray cat can be considered feral if born in the wild.In many parts of...
s. It also operates a Boarding kennels and boarding cattery
Cattery
There are two types of cattery, boarding cattery and breeding cattery.A boarding cattery is where cats are housed temporarily when they can't stay at their owners' home...
.
As an advocacy group, The Lost Dogs’ Home promotes responsible pet ownership and has launched an online pet license program to help prospective owners understand what is required to be a responsible owner. The Lost Dogs’ Home lobbies
Lobbying
Lobbying is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying is done by various people or groups, from private-sector individuals or corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or...
for fair animal laws that will decrease the number of abandoned and stray animals admitted to animal pounds and shelters.
The Lost Dogs’ Home also owns and operates an Australia-wide pet identification and recovery service called the National Pet Register. The National Pet Register issues free individually numbered identification tags and records microchip
Microchip implant (animal)
A microchip implant is an identifying integrated circuit placed under the skin of a dog, cat, horse, parrot or other animal. The chips are about the size of a large grain of rice and are based on a passive RFID technology....
numbers on a national database.