Animal Management | The Teachings of Sisco Miyagi

Superheroes are an amorphous bunch, and it’s about time we defined ourselves

Posted on 26/06/2022
/Under Animal Management, Culture, Sheltering, Uncategorized

Heads up for today’s blog. While I am going to do my best to make it useful and hopefully entertaining, my aim is to get you thinking about what you know and don’t know about some of words and labels we use in our sector, when talking about each other....Read more

Vollie, Vollie, Vollie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Posted on 25/09/2020
/Under Animal Management, Sheltering, Staff and volunteers

I had planned on waiting until Volunteer Week to sit down and put my thoughts ‘on paper’ in this space. That was until I realised that Vollie Week is in May and it’s September, so it would be a while before I put ‘pen to paper’. Given that my main...Read more

Companion animal welfare and management people, we need to stop modelling our identities on Superheroes

Posted on 28/08/2020
/Under Animal Management, Culture, Sheltering

Clarke Kent – Lois Lane – Superman Peter Parker – Mary Jane – Spiderman Bruce Wayne/Batman – Selina Kyle/Catwoman It’s a trope that has been around for as long as superhero comics themselves – Superhero leads double life to protect their human identity and loved ones. Lowly human identity falls...Read more

What’s The Go with RPO?

Posted on 24/08/2020
/Under Animal Management, Behaviour change, Education

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

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