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Tuesday 9 January 2024
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Chamber music at church AFTER touring Europe in 2023 the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne will return to Australia to perform in Frankston this year. The Chamber Philharmonia Cologne has performed at home in Germany and abroad in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, and beyond. It puts on hundreds of shows a year showcasing classical music. The Frankston classical music concert will feature pieces from Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Mozart and Paganini with Carnival in Venice. It will take place on Tuesday 16 January at 8pm, St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Frankston. Tickets can be purchased at discoverfrankston.com/frankston/chamberphilharmonia-cologne or at the door. Picture: Supplied
Hundreds of animals put down Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au MORE than 600 cats and nearly 100 dogs were euthanased by Frankston Council’s contracted animal shelter in the first six months of 2023. New statewide statistics on the fate of animals who enter shelters and pounds have been released by Animal Welfare Victoria. The statistics cover the period between 1 January 2023
and 30 June 2023. During that time The Lost Dogs Home Casey, which provides animal shelter services for Frankston Council, admitted 2201 cats and put down 652. It admitted 1227 dogs during the six month period and euthanased 91. The Lost Dogs Home provides animal shelter services to sixteen Victorian councils. In addition to its Casey facility in Cranbourne West, it also has a facility in North
Melbourne. The Lost Dogs Home director of external affairs Jill GustaveMarsten said that more work needs to be done to prevent cats from being euthanased. “The Lost Dogs’ Home is committed to providing the health and behavioural care necessary to be able to rehome every adoptable animal regardless of length of time it may take to do so. We are also committed to making the right euthanisia decisions
to prevent unnecessary suffering, as well as to protect members of the community and their animals. We achieve this with dogs. We are not achieving this with cats,” GustaveMarsten said. “The sheer numbers of unowned and wild cats coming into shelters, pounds and rescues every year, and most especially during the consistently lengthening kitten season, makes this impossible. Although we are slowly reducing euthanasia
rates for cats year on year, we must have the support of the community and a far greater commitment from the state government to be able to achieve this at a much faster rate. “We are an open intake shelter, meaning we accept all animals into our care regardless of seriousness of health issues or temperaments. There is no selection criteria applied during our intake process.” Continued page 5
