Sentences with phrase «kill public shelter»

Dottie was rescued by California rescue group Marley's Mutts early last year after being dumped, pregnant, at a high - kill public shelter.

There has been a trend in the past year or two for cities and counties to realize that having a No Kill public shelter is an important asset.

The concept has subsequently been embraced by large numbers of traditional and No Kill public shelters.

Not exact matches

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

BUSHWICK — Public Advocate Letitia James said that her office is investigating the nonprofit operator of the shelter apartment where two little girls were killed by the steam from a malfunctioning radiator.

Temma Martin is a public relations specialist for Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters.

Founded in 2015, Share The Love Rescue Inc has a simple mission and simple goals: provide care and find homes for dogs in high kill shelters, as well as offer education and support services to the public regarding the treatment of animals.

As part of a public / private partnership with the City of Los Angeles, Best Friends Animal Society, the only national animal welfare organization focused on ending the killing of shelter pets, operates a Pet Adoption & Spay / Neuter Center at a city - owned facility in Mission Hills at its own expense.

What the public sees in «Adoption Row» is about a tenth of the animals that arein the shelter, waiting to be killed.

Furkids is a non-profit animal welfare group which seeks to provide a cage - free, no - kill shelter for our rescued animals where they can experience the best care in a loving environment until they are adopted, find permanent, loving, homes for all our rescued animals, and inform the public about pet overpopulation, promote sterilization, and provide information for low - cost high - quality spay / neuter services.

We are lucky to be fully funded by our supporters, receiving no public funds for our work with the homeless pets of Washington's Long Beach Peninsula, and the dogs we are able to pull from high kill - rate shelters in the region.

One, perhaps this museum would change the Miami Dade Animal Shelter's perspective (ideally) and educate the public as to what happens when they dump their dogs at this and other shelters and two, this city kills so many dogs they shouldn't be rewarded with Mark's humanitarian effort.

Our Mission The mission of the Maude Schiffley SPCA is to be a no - kill, non-profit adoption center, which provides care for sheltered dogs and cats: Facilitates placement of adoptive animals in nurturing, responsible homes; reduces pet overpopulation through spaying and neutering; and offers various educational opportunities to the public.

Mission Statement: HELP Humane Society is a 501 (c)(3) corporation committed to ending the suffering and killing of homeless, abused and neglected animals by rescuing, sheltering, rehabilitating and seeking forever families for these animals and educating the public on proper pet guardianship and the importance of spaying and neutering.

1) As a no - kill shelter, if one of our dogs is repeatedly passed over by the public, we do not automatically consider that dog unworthy or unadoptable and do not «remedy» the situation by opening up his held space through euthanasia.

Perhaps some of the public funds budgeted for shelters to kill animals could be better spent helping rescue groups who are proactive in matching adoptable pets to suitable homes.

Until recently, the large, wealthy, and entrenched animal welfare organizations have successfully dominated the national discussion on companion animals, and they have misused that power to falsely claim that animals are being killed because of the public, despite shelters trying their very best.

This is your opportunity to educate the public — on the truth about animal shelter high kill rates, Trap - Neuter - Return, local programs and Trap - Neuter - Return groups, or simply familiarize people with outdoor cats in general.

Furry Friends is the only no - kill shelter open to the public in northern Palm Beach County.

The puppies are sold either directly to the public via the Internet, newspaper ads, at the mill itself, or are sold to brokers and pet shops across the country.The documented problems of puppy mills include over breeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of socialization with humans, overcrowded cages, and the killing of unwanted animals.

Best Friends has put together a coalition in Los Angeles dedicated to ending the killing of healthy and adoptable pets in L.A. city shelters, as well as programs to spay / neuter animals, find homes for shelter pets, and raise public awareness.

A comprehensive initiative to end shelter killing, NKLA focuses on public awareness, high - volume pet adoptions and spay / neuter services for those most in need — pets of families in the city's lowest - income communities.

However, OHS does not refer to itself as a «no - kill» shelter because the term does little to help the public understand the decisions a shelter must make in caring for pets.

On the other hand, from the public's point of view, the split is massive, since the terms «kill» and «no kill» still get attached to the shelters, and I don't think that Mr. Avanzino could have predicted that.

The traditionalists argued that open - admission public shelters were necessary because private, limited - admission No Kill shelters were not able to deal with all the homeless pets who needed help.

One reason that criticism of No Kill on the ground of «limited admission» has died down is that it is now abundantly clear that «open admission» public shelters can be No Kill.

We believe the public is better served by looking at a shelter's admission policy and overall treatment record, rather than relying on a vague term such as «no - kill.»

Mike Arms and North Shore were making a life - saving difference with strong public support and a broad donation base without being engaged in animal control contracts, shelter killing or any of the nonlife - affirming activities that had been the stock in trade of regional humane societies and SPCAs for most of the prior century.

Demand of your elected officials for public shelters or board members of not for profit shelters institute the programs of the no kill equation.

Serving the community since 1927, the Baltimore Humane Society operates a no - kill animal shelter for dogs, cats, rabbits, and other small mammals; a low - cost spay / neuter clinic and pet wellness center for the public; and a pet cemetery on our property called the Nicodemus Memorial Park, which offers funeral, burial, and cremation services as well as free pet bereavement services that are open to all (not just clients of the cemetery.)

While public shelters HAVE to take them, they then have to kill the cats to make space for more.

As far as the connection between breeding and shelter killing, I think there is a correlation as far as public behavior is concerned and separate from the manner in which shelters are operated for the bad or for the good.

Many shelters call themselves «no - kill» in an effort to galvanize public support and make themselves out to be «better» than shelters who do euthanize (often called open - admission shelters).

If we (as a movement) are to bring an end to the killing of pets in shelters, we need to engage the public on a deeper level than just a guilt - relieving donation.

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Romania - the mayor of Drobeta - Turnu Severin, Gheorghe Constantin, will apply the «Slaughter Law» and kill all 577 dogs that are currently in the public shelter because he rather prefers spending the money that is needed for their «maintenance» on the eld

Why do these volunteers commit themselves day after day, week after week, to a public open admissions shelter where the number of homeless animals exceeds the number that can be adopted locally or transferred to no - kill shelter partners in other parts of the country?

For us, the poor treatment and killing of homeless pets by the millions in our country's shelters is the lens through which we view the commercial breeding industry that competes with the adoption of shelter pets on the front end and burdens public shelters on the back end, where an estimated 25 percent of impounded dogs are identified as purebred.

Two years ago, Newkirk gave a video presentation on what amounted to why Pit Bulls should be killed and this year, one of her devotees will share PETA's strategy for how to engage in «damage control» and «public relations spin» when a shelter or community which kills is challenged by No Kill proponents.

A good no - kill shelter markets its animals to the pet - buying public, makes sure the dogs and the adopters are compatible, and does whatever training, socialization, and medical care is necessary to provide healthy, stable pets to new homes.

I've tried to explain it by the simple observation that the founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, formerly held a job killing homeless dogs and cats at the Washington Humane Society, a shelter with a consistently poor record for saving lives and the subject of historical public acrimony for its over-reliance on killing.

Each blind eye turned and each handshake extended to the killers at PETA strengthens PETA's ability to not only continue harming animals with impunity, but to use their increasing influence, power, and wealth to undermine the efforts of those laboring to protect the lives of community cats, pit bull dogs, and shelter animals whose killing PETA publicly champions to the American public and our elected officials.

No Kill will be the accepted standard procedure for shelters, whether public or private.

Kill shelters are disturbing, unsettling places to visit for those who care about animals, not to mention the fact that the more a shelter kills, the more dirty and neglectful it is likely to be, and the more hostile and poor its customer service — all driving the public away from shelters and into the arms of the commercial pet trade.

Many members of the general public don't even know the difference between no - kill rescues and «shelters,» the latter of which are actually pounds that impound animals and kill the surplus.

There are a few rescue groups that are working independently rescuing cats from the shelter and the public to keep them from being killed.

With revenues from the Thrift Store, Recycling Saves Lives Campaign, Bark - N - Purr Club and other fundraising programs, and generous donations from the public that would like to see a No Kill Shelter in Blount County, we will be able to accomplish all our dreams and goals.

The protagonist of Just Life is Samantha Lewis, a veterinarian who runs a no - kill shelter and gets drawn into the public health epidemic.

is leading the charge towards No Kill by energizing the public and breaking down myths about sheltered pets.

The use of the words no - kill shelter and kill shelter are to place a wedge between the two in the eyes of the naive public for the almighty dollar.