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Giving them away: Shelter contribution to companion animal disposability image source: http://www.landfilldogs.com/ date accessed 15/09/2014 1. What is Companion Animal Disposability and how does the shelter contribute to it? 2. Where do we

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Giving them away:

Shelter contribution to companion animal disposability

image source: http://www.landfilldogs.com/ date accessed 15/09/2014

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  • 1. What is Companion Animal Disposability

and how does the shelter contribute to it?

  • 2. Where do we need to improve our efforts to

combat CAD and pet rejection?

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What is Companion Animal Disposability?

A situation in which companion animals are seen as able to be sold, abandoned or otherwise disposed of when no longer wanted.

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The Cycle of Consumption Consume (Buy) Waste (Bin) Produce (Make)

Bauman, Z. (2007) Consuming Life, Polity Press: Cambridge.

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The survival of that society and the well-being of its members hang on the swiftness with which products are consigned to waste and the speed and efficiency of waste removal. Zygmunt Bauman (2005) Liquid Life, pp. 3

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What does this mean for companion animals?

image source: http://themodernbark.blogspot.com.au/ date accessed 15/09/2014

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Production

  • Production = Profit
  • Mass Breeding Facilities (Puppy Farms)
  • Registered Breeders
  • Unregistered Breeders (Backyard

Breeding)

  • Petshops
  • Shelters
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Consumption

  • Impulse Buying
  • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Values*
  • Joint Public Identity**
  • Beverland, M. Farrelly, F. & Ai Ching Lim, E. (2008) ‘Exploring the dark side of pet ownership: Status- and control-based pet consumption,Journal
  • f Business Research, 61 pp. 490-496
  • **Sanders, C. (1990) ‘Excusing Tactics: social responses to the public misbehaviour of companion animals,’ Anthrozoos, 5:2, pp. 82-90
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Waste

  • Sell/giveaway
  • Surrender (shelter)
  • Euthanasia
  • Dump
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The Cycle of Consumption Consume (Buy) Waste (Reject) Produce (Breed/Sell)

Shelter

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Shelters contribute to companion animal disposability in three ways:

  • 1. ‘Waste’ Disposal- a crucial aspect of the consumption

cycle which enables the process to continue at an ever increasing rate.

  • 2. Production- by selling (rehoming) animals, the idea of

animals as a ‘good’ is reinforced.

  • 3. (Current) Inability to intervene in the degradation of the

human/animal bond to head off ultimate rejection.

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Let’s be clear

Shelters are not villains, willingly promoting CAD to keep themselves in business.

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But they aren’t able to completely overturn it either.

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Tackling Companion Animal Disposability Consume (Buy) Waste (Reject) Produce (Breed/Sell) Unlinking

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Joint Social Identity

  • When you and your

companion appear together in public, you form one joint identity.

  • When your companion

exhibits socially unacceptable behaviour, it reflects badly on both of you.

image source:www.dogshaming.com; date accessed 15/09/2014

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Clinton Sanders observed seven excusing tactics used by owners to cope with this disgrace:

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  • 1. Situating Behaviour
  • 2. Displacing Blame
  • 3. Redefining Behaviour
  • 4. Quasi-theory Explanation
  • 5. Framing Developmentally
  • 6. Overt Displays
  • 7. Unlinking
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Why should we focus on unlinking?

Because caring for a companion animal is much harder than most anticipate!

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image source:www.dogshaming.com; date accessed 15/09/2014

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image source:www.dogshaming.com; date accessed 15/09/2014

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image source:www.dogshaming.com; date accessed 15/09/2014

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They don’t tell you about poop paintings.

When you buy a companion you usually get a ‘puppy/kitten pack’ filled with information about training, vaccination, desexing.

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Part of the family until…

…the companion animal’s behaviour has tarnished the joint identity beyond repair, at which point their human is likely to unlink. reject, rehome, dispose….

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Shelters contribute to companion animal disposability in three ways:

  • 1. ‘Waste’ Disposal- a crucial aspect of the consumption

cycle which enables the process to continue at an ever increasing rate.

  • 2. Production- by selling (rehoming) animals, the idea of

animals as a ‘good’ is reinforced.

  • 3. (Current) Inability to intervene in the degradation of

the human/animal bond to head off ultimate rejection.

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If we are serious about tackling companion animal disposability, we need to intervene BEFORE owners are at the point of unlinking. Shelters are just one of many figures who need to address this.

We (everyday humans) do too.

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This issue isn’t going to go away… If there’s one thing furry folk are good at, it’s getting into trouble!

Thank you for your attention!

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