Sentences with phrase «animal recovery program»

Dr. Carmen L. Battaglia is President and C.E.O. of the AKC Companion Animal Recovery program.

The American Kennel Club founded the Companion Animal Recovery program in 1995.

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In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Few efforts to spur the recovery of endangered animals have evoked as much opposition as recent programs to reintroduce the wolf to the wild.

Programs like the American Kennel Club (AKC) Companion Animal Recovery (CAR) program maintain worldwide databases so they can help reunite lost pets with their families.

Each year thousands of search and rescue, recovery, detection, drug, and other working animals are treated through this program.

Using Microchip Technology The microchip has many uses but when the American Kennel Club adopted it for its Companion Animal Recovery (CAR) Program, pet owners were given a new way to protect their pets.

The Companion Animal Recovery (CAR) Program is a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) affiliate of the AKC.

«Opening your heart and home to an animal in need — particularly one being rescued from cruelty or neglect — is crucial to not only that animal's recovery but the ASPCA's ability to take in even more animals at risk,» said Eileen Hanavan, Senior Manager, Foster & Offsite Programs, ASPCA Adoption Center.

Brigid Wasson is the president of Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit dedicated to lost pet prevention and recovery, and the CEO and principal consultant of The Path Ahead Animal Shelter Consulting, providing infrastructure building, management team support, and lifesaving programs for animal shelters across the coAnimal Shelter Consulting, providing infrastructure building, management team support, and lifesaving programs for animal shelters across the coanimal shelters across the country.

Thanks to the highly skilled surgeons at Animal Medical Center in Manhattan, Animal League America's Foster Care Program and our one - of - a-kind Help Me Heal Program, Yogurt was able to receive the corrective surgery and rehabilitation he needed to make a miraculous recovery.

The microchip has many uses but when the American Kennel Club adopted it for the Companion Animal Recovery (CAR) program pet owners were given a new way to protect their pets.

Animal Specialty Hospital of Florida's physical rehabilitation team designs treatment programs focusing on sports medicine, performance optimization, fitness, weight management, surgery recovery and chronic illness alleviation.

For more information on lost pet behaviors, shelter - based lost pet recovery programs, and community - based lost pet search - and - rescue teams, a 5 - day Missing Animal Response course as well as in - house workshops for shelters, visit the Missing Pet Partnership website.

«While these dogs are now on the road to recovery hundreds of thousands of others are suffering in equally horrific facilities across the country,» said Rebecca Aldworth, director of animal programs for HSI Canada.

The AKC Companion Animal Recovery (CAR) program was founded in June 1995 to help reunite lost pets with their owners.

Following a recovery program, the animal is thriving again.

Our Wildlife Program focuses on preventing extinction and promoting recovery of imperiled native plants and animals across the West and beyond.