Love the dog you’re with

Love the dog you’re with

It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I’ve been trying (and failing!) to find my writing mojo. One of my goals when starting the blog was to write a series of ‘Sisco’s lessons for life’ posts and lately I’ve been reminded often of one of his best lessons for...Read more
‘Test’ vs ‘Assessment’: Words matter, and that bathwater is looking dirty enough to lose a baby!

‘Test’ vs ‘Assessment’: Words matter, and that bathwater is looking dirty enough to lose a baby!

Back in 2017 I was sitting in the audience of Mykel Smith’s presentation at the Australian Institute of Animal Management yearly conference ‘Recruiting: Are we getting the most suitable candidate?’. He spoke about staff recruitment, focusing on the difference in an organisations ability to select high-quality candidates using traditional Q&A...Read more
How much suffering is hope worth?

How much suffering is hope worth?

“I feel like I spend half my life telling rehomers that X behaviour is not a legitimate reason for killing a pet, and the other half telling rehomers that they absolutely should not be placing the animal in question as a pet” If I had a $5 for every time...Read more
Making the Impossible Choice…

Making the Impossible Choice…

To say that 2020 has been a weird year is an obvious understatement. However, it’s the best I can come up with to describe the duality of extreme lows and brilliant highs of human nature that have punctuated the last 10 months. I’m not sure whether it’s due to the...Read more
What’s The Go with RPO?

What’s The Go with RPO?

Aussies love slogans. It’s an indisputable fact that if something is able to be chanted at the football or cricket, it will burn it’s way in to the public psyche and resist all attempts to remove it, no matter how silly, useless or downright dangerous the concept behind the slogan...Read more