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Animal Management Issues & Resources

• Barking

  Dogs are important household members to 37.3% of Australian households with 92% of them reporting that they feel very close to their pet.

• Behaviour

• Cat Confinement & Legislation

  The call for cats to be controlled (identified, registered, banned, confined 24 hours per day, or be desexed) has risen since the early 1980s.

• Dangerous Dogs, Dog Attacks, Dog Bites, Aggression

  Dogs have shared their lives with humans for more than 12,000 years, and that coexistence has contributed substantially to humans' quality of life.

• Domestic Animal Management Plans

  Domestic animal management (DAM) plans set a framework for effective animal management and legal compliance.

• Effective Legislation, Benchmarking

  Legislative changes are necessary to bring outdated laws into line with current cultural, demographic and technological change across Australia.

   

• Pet Ownership

  Responsible pet ownership involves taking personal responsibility for one's pet(s) and managing it in ways that are in the best interests of neighbours, the local community and the pet itself, as well

• Pets & Wildlife

  If the maintenance of natural biodiversity is the key to a sustainable, healthy environment, then wildlife conservation is as important in the urban and peri-urban environment as it is anywhere else.

• Population Control

  Critical to any approach to management of populations of cats and dogs is an understanding of population dynamics.  There are large populations of unowned animals which contribute in a significant wa

• Public Open Space, Community Building, Planning

  The planning and design of urban housing and public open space can improve animal management outcomes.  When added to the social aspects of pet ownership, planning can contribute to wider social capi

• Registration, Micro-chipping, Identification

  Identification of all companion animals is critical to effective management and to the animal's welfare.

   

• Remote Communities

  Delivery of animal health, welfare and control programmes on remote indigenous communities has unique social, cultural and logistic considerations.

• Trap Neuter Release

  Trap, neuter and release (TNR) is a proposed management solution for feral, free-roaming and unowned cats. 

• Welfare, Pounds & Shelters

  Animal welfare groups are impacting positively within the urban animal management environment, are getting a strong message out to a larger demographic and have developed rewarding partnerships along

• UAM Conference Proceedings

  Access to 15 years of UAM Conference proceedings