Education will be our salvation - responsible pet ownership starts with the young

Kingsley Newman

Abstract

By working with the young we will achieve greater impact than by preaching to the already converted or the life-time disinterested. This paper relies on past experiences and current research to fix the best time to start educating and with which groups.

About the author

His Honour Kingsley Newman

Member of Dog and Cat Management Board

16 Hutt Street

ADELAIDE SA 5000

Ph: (08) 8232 0454

His Honour Judge Kingsley Newman was a former Judge of the Local and District Criminal Court South Australia. He was a senior Judge of the Children's Court of South Australia for almost 20 years and a member of the general committee of the RSPCA for many years and nine years as chairman.

He is also a former South Australian delegate to the National Executive of the Australian Crime Prevention Council and Chairman of the Community Welfare Grants Commission. On retiring from the bench he served as a Consultant to the Western Australian Government (Prisons) advising the immediate closure of the Laverton (WA) Work Camp (Boot Camp).

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