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Get Out with the Dogs these School Holidays
Get Out with the Dogs these School holidays 5th September 2011 If you love animals and are passionate about animal welfare, then join Animal Welfare League Queensland in the inaugural ‘Out with the Dogs’ camp out on the 30 September and 1 October....
Getting to Zero Summit 7th – 9th Sepember 2011
Summit set to spark brighter communities. 6th September 2010 The 4th G2Z National Summit to End Companion Animal Overpopulation starts today on the Gold Coast and is set to change the way Australia views the euthanasia of the ‘surplus’...
Jack the Chi finds new feline friends at the AWLQ
Last year my boyfriend and I moved in together. I already owned a chihuahua x puppy that was quite upset being left at home alone while we went to work as he wasn’t used to it. We decided to find him a friend and we are both big fans of the AWL and all the great...
Foster Carers Beware!
I wondered how fostering would go in a house hold already full of cats and dogs but the AWL was in desparate need. So I fostered two 4 week old kittens a few weeks before Christmas. They were no bigger than the palm of my hand and were very timid and needed lot...
Keisha’s new life as FIFI
Hello My husband and I adopted Keisha (now renamed Fifi) at AWL few months ago. She is about 2 years old. We were very aprehensive and unsure about how our life was going to be with a dog but now I can say that I don’t know how people can live without the...
Roxy the Husky’s happy ever after
I lost my little girl MIsty Blue ( Australian Blue Cattle) in 2006 and we had been good friends for 12 years, when living in Brisbane. I missed her dearly she was and always will have that Special Place in My Heart. I bought a Holden Ute so my next dog could go...
Betty – Boo Boo and Darla the chooks
On the 22nd of June 2011, we adopted three hens from the AWL. Two black chooks called Betty and Boo Boo and one red chook called Darla. We renamed them to Dawn, Dusk and Sunshine and they have made great friends with our red chook Rosie. They have three quarter of an...
one of the great ones
Nearly 2 years ago we lost our beloved ’girls’, Angi & Gina who became great mates my husband and I met and started going out about 10 years ago. After losing the girls within 2 weeks of each other we decided we would be ’dogless’ so we...
Jack the Black cat
It seem’s like just yesterday I was staring at the AWL kitties who needed a home on the website. A cute little boy named Jack caught my eye and for over a week I stared at his photo. My partner kept saying no, so I asked my dad who said ’he...
Snooker the Boxer finds his forever home
We were on the hunt for a boxer/ cross dog primarily as a companion for our other 1 year old boxer cross. This is because our first dog is a ’high energy’ dog and needed a compatible dog to run around with on our acreage. Well, we came across the photos of...