In 2005, we began this organization with a vision for a No Kill Austin — an open -
admission municipal animal shelter with a 90 % or higher save rate — at a time when the city was killing 55 % of impounded animals and over 14,000 a year.
That's why we fought to make the Southern Brazoria County Animal Shelter the only No Kill Open
Admission Municipal Animal Shelter in Brazoria County.
Not exact matches
By proving that open
admission municipal shelters, even with old buildings and limited resources, CAN save all the healthy and treatable
animals in their care.
Consider this example taken from the annual report of a humane society under contract to provide
municipal animal control and a
municipal open -
admission animal shelter:
As a
municipal, open -
admissions shelter we receive in
animals that are found stray within our jurisdiction,
animals that owners no longer can care for, as well as injured and abused
animals.
CACC is a
municipal, open
admission shelter, meaning it must take in any stray
animal who shows up at its door.
Friends of San Francisco
Animal Care and Control (FSFACC) is the only organization dedicated to raising funds for the City's municipal, open - admission animal shelter and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit animals, and serve and educate the p
Animal Care and Control (FSFACC) is the only organization dedicated to raising funds for the City's
municipal, open -
admission animal shelter and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit animals, and serve and educate the p
animal shelter and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit
animals, and serve and educate the public.
The same
municipal animal shelter in this story in their efforts to become NK have become a limited
admission shelter because they are often at full capacity and now housing mostly pitbull type dogs.
Sick and injured pets: Pasadena
Animal Shelter is an open admissions, municipal shelter, so we often take in in animals that are too ill to go up for ad
Shelter is an open
admissions,
municipal shelter, so we often take in in animals that are too ill to go up for ad
shelter, so we often take in in
animals that are too ill to go up for adoption.
Check out the results of a study just published in the peer - reviewed journal
Animals, «Factors Associated with High Live Release for Dogs at a Large, Open -
Admission,
Municipal Shelter.»
In 2006, I had a wonderful opportunity to move into the newly emerging field of
shelter medicine by becoming the City of Tallahassee's first veterinarian with Tallahassee
Animal Services, an open -
admission municipal shelter in Florida.
On August 1 of last year, a non-profit named Petaluma
Animal Services Foundation took over management of the city's open -
admission municipal shelter.
Dallas
Animal Services (DAS) is the
municipal open
admissions shelter for the City of Dallas.
So if you're an under - funded, understaffed, open -
admission municipal shelter overwhelmed with the throngs of unwanted pets your community continually dumps at your doorstep (as opposed to limited or closed
admission shelters that can pick and choose the
animals they take in), and you have no additional resources at your disposal, then the odds of being able to implement lifesaving programs isn't favorable.