Sentences with phrase «animal hoarding interventions»
Animal hoarding interventions are most effective when utilizing a collaborative approach between service agencies.
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Her commitment to serving animals includes a term as treasurer of No More Homeless Pets of Alachua County and applying her veterinary technician skills during deployments to three large - scale feline hoarding interventions, a dog - fighting confiscation, and turtles confiscated from the illegal meat trade.
In natural disasters, puppy mill busts, animal fighting interventions, and hoarding cases, law enforcement and emergency management agencies often rely on specially - trained response teams to rescue animals and mitigate the associated risks to humans.
The ASPCA supports laws that would allow for intervention in hoarding cases before animals have deteriorated or died and would provide for the seizure of the animals and for court - ordered counseling for the hoarder.
a. Develop training on animal cruelty and the link between cruelty and domestic violence for law enforcement personnel; b. Expand the current ACO training curriculum; c. Train and educate judges, appropriate court personnel, and prosecutors about animal cruelty; d. Educate veterinarians about recognizing animal cruelty and understanding current law; e. Create a state multidisciplinary team for animal hoarding that would develop an emergency response system and oversee a task force to focus on early intervention of hoarding including mental health counseling in all animal hoarding cases; and create a Department of Mental Health and Department of Corrections forensic assessment protocol for early intervention, sentencing, treatment, and rehabilitation; and f. Develop and promote animal cruelty prevention, identification, training and screening tools among pet service providers, associations, and the commercial pet industry.
Hoarding situations may go unreported for fear that the people will get in trouble or that the animals will be taken away, however, early intervention allows for the best possible outcome for the animals and humans involved.
The ASPCA's cruelty intervention efforts in New York City are focused in three main areas: animal hoarding, emergency veterinary care for underserved communities and resources for domestic violence survivors.