Sentences with phrase «animal control shelter when»

I adopted Roxy from my local Animal Control shelter when she was 5 months old.

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Individuals can still buy a pet from a breeder, but when the law takes effect this year, all dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores will come from shelters, rescue groups or animal control agencies.

Animal cruelty (OK Title 21 § 1685), a felony in Oklahoma, includes «any person who shall willfully or maliciously torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate any animal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprived of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering...» When an officer arrives on the scene, if the animals are found to be at risk, but the situation is not critical enough to warrant felony charges, any Oklahoma peace officer or animal control officer may describe the problems and give the owner or caregiver a certain number of days to correct the situAnimal cruelty (OK Title 21 § 1685), a felony in Oklahoma, includes «any person who shall willfully or maliciously torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate any animal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprived of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering...» When an officer arrives on the scene, if the animals are found to be at risk, but the situation is not critical enough to warrant felony charges, any Oklahoma peace officer or animal control officer may describe the problems and give the owner or caregiver a certain number of days to correct the situanimal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprived of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering...» When an officer arrives on the scene, if the animals are found to be at risk, but the situation is not critical enough to warrant felony charges, any Oklahoma peace officer or animal control officer may describe the problems and give the owner or caregiver a certain number of days to correct the situanimal control officer may describe the problems and give the owner or caregiver a certain number of days to correct the situation.

Many animal shelters (including WCGHS) post photos of stray animals brought in by either Animal Control or citizens, when owner information is not avaianimal shelters (including WCGHS) post photos of stray animals brought in by either Animal Control or citizens, when owner information is not avaiAnimal Control or citizens, when owner information is not available.

The Animal Shelter reunites lost pets with their owners, cares for, loves, and finds homes for stray, surrendered and abandoned animals, controls the pet population with mandatory spay / neuter requirements for pets that are adopted from our facility and by offering financial assistance when needed.

When you are ready to find your next family member, there are many places to «adopt» a puppy: shelters, rescue groups, Animal Control Shelters, Humane Society shelters, and purebred rescue groups.

When Billy first arrived at our Boston shelter from an animal control facility in Western Massachusetts, we could tell he was special.

Maxwell was trapped inside a cage when fire broke out Feb. 8 at the Seminole County Animal Control shelter on U.S. Highway 17 - 92, killing 32 cats and seven dogs.

This German shepherd mix has been able to avoid animal control officers in cars, evade traps, chew his way out of an animal shelter, and was able to even get away when he was surrounded by six officers and got shot twice by a tranquilizer.

The moving story of the Salem - based shelter Deaf Dogs Rock started when Salem Animal Control found a 10 week old abandoned boxer puppy called Nitro, by the river.

Instead of rewarding animal control officers for creating good outcomes for the owners and animals by offering assistance when needed or for scanning for microchips in the field so animals can get back home, the rewards system is now put in place to encourage animal control officers to bring animals back to the shelter where a large percentage of them end up dying.

Knight has been working for Animal Control since July when the county took over the sheltering of animals from the Sequoia Humane Society.

After a career in animal control it is beyond words and disappointing to know that politics has become superior to public safety — our current situation of adoption / placement of all shelter animals regardless of concern for the safety of the community and often disregard for the animal when he is asked to peacefully coexist in society long term when the facts continue to prove that this often ends in tragedy is inexcusable.

The Alliance helped establish a Missouri pet - friendly license plate in which the proceeds are used by the Missouri State Humane Association for spaying and neutering dogs and cats when adopted from statewide animal shelters and animal control facilities.

The stress on shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the shelter; counties lacking even a shelter or inside kenneling.

This is known as Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) or Shelter - Neuter - Return (SNR), when the local animal control or shelter works with community cat Shelter - Neuter - Return (SNR), when the local animal control or shelter works with community cat shelter works with community cat groups.

«Many family pets are lost, stolen, picked up by animal control and taken to overcrowded city and county animal shelters when, all along, had they had some form of ID on them, they could have easily been returned to their owners.»

He was only a few weeks old when he arrived at Animal Care & Control of New York City — too young to thrive in a busy shelter.

When local animal control agencies shelters don't have any space or foster homes available for kittens, they often work with the East Bay SPCA to find appropriate foster placement.

Goodwill, positive press and donations are generated when an animal control agency or shelter takes a proactive approach to reuniting lost pets with their families.

When your pet is brought to a veterinarian or animal shelter or found by animal control, authorities only need to scan the chip to pull up your contact information and let you know that your pet has been found.

All of the cities within the service area of the Society fund and operate animal control departments and shelters to care for, and when necessary, humanely destroy unwanted and stray animals.

When dogs are picked up and taken to the animal control shelter the owner is subject to a $ 4 a day boarding fee, $ 10 for shots and $ 25 for picking up the dog.

When Mr. Salomon was picked up as a stray and brought into the Animal Care & Control (AC&C) shelter in March, his microchip made it easy to locate his former adopters.

Updates as to when the cats are healthy enough for adoption will be posted on the Orangeburg County Animal Control and Shelter Facebook page.

Palm Beach County animal control reluctantly killed dozens of animals before Frances, when the shelter exceeded its capacity of 500 and owners kept surrendering their pets.

Senior Animal Control Officer (Burbank California Animal Shelter) Stacie Wood - Levin's advice reminds us, «When using an air horn or boat horn, realize it will also scare the heck out of your dog,» so have a good hold on him and be prepared to destress him once the situation has played out.

Columbus County Animal Control, located in Whiteville, had the reputation of being one of the worst shelters in the state until Joey Prince took control in September 2015 when he replaced RossieControl, located in Whiteville, had the reputation of being one of the worst shelters in the state until Joey Prince took control in September 2015 when he replaced Rossiecontrol in September 2015 when he replaced Rossie Hayes.

Each year, Lake's animal control shelter must euthanize thousands of dogs and cats who aren't wearing ID tags when they arrive at the county pound in Astatula.

That number is down from 74 percent in 2002 (the year the Mayor's Alliance was formed), when 31,908 of the more than 40,000 dogs and cats entering NYC's Animal Care & Control (AC&C) shelters were euthanized.

When you adopt a dog from animal control, a shelter or a rescue group, you save a life.

«That is when the staffer found her crying in the hallway,» says Chris Collins Weinstein, a board member with Friends of Anne Arundel County Animal Control — a nonprofit associated with the county shelter — who was there that day.

When you donate to Olives Hope Pet Rescue, all of your dollars will go to surgeries, transporting animals, food, beds, shelter runs, medical care including but not exclusive to wormer, vaccinations, flea and tick control, heart worm tests and preventative and sometimes specialized food if the animal's condition requires it.

Many of the felines that end up at shelters are captured by animal - control officers, but most are brought in by owners who are overwhelmed when their cats give birth.

There will be a discussion on adding a wing to the animal control building when Osceola County Humane Society meets Thursday.Under discussion will be the need for a quarantine wing at the county shelter on Kissimmee Park Road.The panel of guest speakers will include Dr. David Andrix, Dr. Ric Austin, Dr. Bill Ackerman, a representative from the county animal control, Osceola County commissioners Jim Swan, Larry Whaley, Randy Sheive and Mike Bast.The meeting, open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in the Humane Society Bingo Hall, 127 Broadway, Kissimmee.

When Veal began volunteering there, she was impressed by the efforts staff make to adopt out the animals brought in by animal control, and she says the shelter rarely has to euthanize animals for space.

Chris Hannah, a music teacher from Mennies Elementary School in Vineland, would just be starting his search for a new companion to bring a little joy into his life when, at the same time, «Harry Potter» found himself in the clutches of an animal control officer and wound up at the shelter.

When hundreds of cats in the New York City Animal Care and Control shelters tested positive for avian influenza last year, everyone involved set their only goal — saving the cats» lives.

When the San Francisco SPCA dropped its contract as the city's animal control agency and began its quest to save all adoptable cats an dogs in the city, it was criticized by some other California shelters that questioned its definition of «adoptable» and complained that no - kill facilities merely shift the burden of killing to other shelters.

In the event of a prolonged period when the shelter is too full to accommodate the impounding of new strays, the Animal Control Officer would have to select animals for euthanasia.

Duncan described the city - run animal shelter on Circle Road as a «regional» facility that is eliminating the need to euthanize two of every three dogs and cats brought there, which it was doing when the city took control about two years ago.

San Francisco Animal Care & Control San Francisco's Animal Care & Control shelter does euthanize dogs, but only when there are absolutely no other alternatives.

«An animal control shelter or animal protection shelter may [emphasis added] consider an individual's criminal history when deciding whether to allow that individual to adopt an animal.

The case started when Karen Lewis attempted to adopt a pit bull terrier from the shelter; Lewis had actually called animal control to have the dog removed from a home where she said it was left tied to a tree without food or water.

Dogs can be scanned when picked up by an animal control officer or brought to the shelter.

AHS» New Hope Program, allows us to select and transport animals from Maricopa County Animal Care & Control (MCACC) for adoption at our shelters when kennel space permits.

And, with more than 25,000 animals entering shelters in Pima County each year and thousands more in dire need of spay and neuter services, Altered Tails will collaborate with Pima Animal Care Center, the largest animal welfare group in Pima County that provides animal control, to assist them with spay / neuter surgeries when they face overflow conditions due to their high intake nuAnimal Care Center, the largest animal welfare group in Pima County that provides animal control, to assist them with spay / neuter surgeries when they face overflow conditions due to their high intake nuanimal welfare group in Pima County that provides animal control, to assist them with spay / neuter surgeries when they face overflow conditions due to their high intake nuanimal control, to assist them with spay / neuter surgeries when they face overflow conditions due to their high intake numbers.

Also, it was hoped this historic legislation would give law enforcement and animal control the tools they need to stop animal cruelty and avoid the burden large puppy and cat mills place on communities when they must be shut down, leaving large numbers of animals in need of veterinary care, sheltering, and placement. it is the state and local government that is forced to absorb the cost of rescue, care and placement of animals that must be seized from mills because of abhorrent conditions and animal cruelty and neglect.

When this happens, licensed animal shelters, rescue groups and animal control agencies are prevented from tackling companion animal overpopulation thus perpetuating the cycle of animal suffering and death.

It's become a basic practice for shelters and animal control to scan for microchips when picking up an animal from the street to help identify if they have an owner or not.