Sentences with phrase «public shelters also»

Public shelters also offer many of the same programs and services as private shelters.

Not exact matches

Also known as a tax - sheltered annuity (TSA) plan, a 403 (b) is a retirement plan for some employees of public schools, employees of certain tax - exempt organizations, and certain ministers.
However I also believe in democratizing the production of certain industries (food, water, shelter)- In other words, every basic human need should have a public option, or provided by the state.
Nixon and her wife also have a charitable organization, the Nixon - Marinoni Family Foundation, which last year gave $ 44,896 to non-profits, which ranged from organizations like WNYC Public Radio, Trinity Place Shelter, the Bowery Mission and the Roundabout Theatre Company.
And the U.S. Attorney's office also is seeking all communications between the health department, NYCHA, the Department of Homeless Services and any city, state or federal governmental agency about conditions in public housing or homeless shelters.
There's also $ 300 million for homeless shelter renovation and $ 355 million for repairs at public housing.
Also known as a tax - sheltered annuity, a 403 (b) plan is an employer - sponsored plan designed for employees of certain tax - exempt organizations (e.g., hospitals, churches, charities, and public schools) to invest for their retirement.
Many shelters also function as spay and neuter clinics, offering low cost neuter and spay surgery to the public.
Dr. Rodan also lectures to the public and staff members of the local shelter, Dane County Humane Society.
Depending on the availability of space and foster homes, we also accept homeless animals directly from public and private animal shelters and from rescue groups.
Florida wildlife officials are proposing a tough policy of ridding public hunting areas of feral cats and also cracking down on feral cat shelters anywhere near threatened or endangered species of wildlife.
«The Vet Pets program places them in view of the public at about five weeks old, so it not only takes them out of the shelter and decreases our euthanasia rate, but it also gets them adopted more quickly once they do reach eight weeks.»
The organization has also been teaching the community how TNR for community cats is good public policy, as it effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies, saving taxpayer dollars in the process.
Not only can they not take on more shelter animals, they also can not accommodate the myriad of kittens they are handed by the public at adoption sites.
The bill also would require shelters to keep, and make public, records of all animals who enter and leave their facilities.
The public has been taught that bringing any cat to the shelter, whether stray or a pet they can no longer keep, is not only an easy and low - cost option, it is also the right thing to do for the cat.
This duty may also include interacting with the public, especially if the shelter also allows for pet adoptions.
A faculty fellow for the Center for Animals in Public Policy at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts, Bollen also served as director of behavior programs for the shelter medicine program at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Our stand - alone shelter would also include a low - cost, high - quality spay / neuter clinic open to the public.
Of course, New York City shelters (www.nycacc.org) also offer many wonderful animals for adoption, and they're open to the public seven days a week.
The rural shelters also suffer from a lack of funding, which directly translates to a lack of hours for animal control officers to spend networking and a lack of adoption hours for the general public to view and choose the dog that they want to bring home.
Young at Heart also provides community outreach to help keep senior pets out of shelters in the first place, from providing pet food to low - income food pantries, to educating the public on senior pet care, to helping other organizations network their senior pets.
We also work with animal shelters and the general public to increase awareness of sound animal husbandry and all aspects of appropriate equine care in Iowa.
Public shelters tend to attract more adopters, but their intake is also much higher and so is their euthanasia rate.
This Division also maintains the Civil Section which works in conjunction with the Courts to serve the public and the Animal Services Section which is responsible for operation of the Yolo County Animal Services shelter and animal control services.
Such a law is not only necessary, reasonable and an effective means of saving lives, its passage would also bring Florida's sheltering procedures more in line with the humane, progressive values of the American public.
The new facility will also allow JCHS to focus solely on the medical needs of both shelter & public pets in one designated area — so that the JCHS Shelter Team members can carry on with their goals of caring for & finding furr» ever homes for the countless stray, abused, neglected, and unwanted animals of Jefferson Countyshelter & public pets in one designated area — so that the JCHS Shelter Team members can carry on with their goals of caring for & finding furr» ever homes for the countless stray, abused, neglected, and unwanted animals of Jefferson CountyShelter Team members can carry on with their goals of caring for & finding furr» ever homes for the countless stray, abused, neglected, and unwanted animals of Jefferson County, Ohio.
The Montreal SPCA would also like to remind the public that there are many other dogs and pets available for adoption at our shelter and that they are all looking for a forever home.
And the problems also include cities and shelters that like Aurora and Denver, CO that choose to kill all dogs of certain breeds because they look like types of dogs they don't want in their city (regardless of the reality that their own statistics don't support their ideas to ban these dogs, nor do the dogs themselves, based on their actual behavior, pose any threat to the public).
We also strive to educate the public on the importance of adopting pets from the shelter instead of buying from pet stores and backyard breeders.
She is also the Assistant Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and Director of the Shelter Medicine program.
We also provide Dog Training classes to dogs that have been adopted from our shelter, and to the general public.
The bill would also set standards of care for animal shelters, boarding kennels, commercial breeders, commercial kennels, dealers, pet shops, pounds, public auctions, or research facilities.
Update Mar. 3, 2010: The Senate as well as the House have now passed Utah bill, H.B. 107, which would make pound seizure discretionary instead of mandatory for Utah public shelters and also improve laws requiring public shelters to search for owners and find homes for animals.
Hughes also visited the Randolph County Animal Shelter, which is located next to the Randolph County landfill at 1370 County Land Road, Randleman, to film a public service announcement about Randolph County's anti-tethering law.
The new law also strengthens requirements that public shelters search for owners of lost animals and find homes for animals.
To achieve its mission of elevating Montgomery County to a No - Kill Community, the group promotes programs that not only inform the public but also help reduce the number of companion animals entering shelters and to increase the number of furry friends leaving shelters alive.
A volunteer, rescuer, or any other member of the public not only has the First Amendment right to speak out against abuses and violations of law committed by a government shelter, he or she also has a constitutionally protected right to demand that the government correct the wrongs that are identified.
Not only should the regulations require all of the things in the proposed regulation (rather than just three of them), but they should also require shelters to remain in compliance with all laws and regulations, maintain daily adoption hours when the public can visit without an appointment, and maintain a live release rate of at least 51 %, if not more, so that more animals are saved than killed.
Yes, our animal sheltering system is indeed flawed and in need of strong and expedient reform, but we must also remember that these facilities are our nation's pet dumping grounds tasked with «cleaning up» the mess our irresponsible and negligent public has created.
«We've [also] spent decades training the public to think of the shelter as the first resort for dealing with a concern about animals, so whether that's... an animal that's a nuisance, or an animal that you see in the neighborhood, we've very much [ingrained] the concept of taking that animal to an animal shelter,» says Levy.
Our team also consists of caring shelter staff who alert us of dogs who need our resources and care, Veterinarians and Veterinary Clinics who care for our dogs as if they were their only clients, Businesses who donate supplies and food for your foster dogs, and the public who donate to our program.
(See also «Stamford fires shelter manager for rehoming dangerous dogs, http://wp.me/p4pKmM-yJ; «Connecticut shelter investigated for allegedly adopting out dangerous dogs,» http://wp.me/p4pKmM-v1; «Fitchburg becomes third public shelter to suspend operations due to liability concerns about pit bulls,» http://wp.me/p4pKmM-y1; and «Roswell resumes releases of dogs to rescue groups following 3 - day suspension after pit bull attack,» http://wp.me/p4pKmM-xd.)
The public really need educating on how to buy a pet (preferably rescue one from a shelter) and all pet shops should not be allowed to sell dogs or cats and online sales of animals should also be banned.
Many of the services we provide for our shelter animals are also available to the public.
Doing so allows shelters to provide information that the public wants in a way that also allows the shelter to place the information in context and tell its own story.
Some demand also exists in lower - paying jobs found in epidemiology, shelter medicine, food safety and public health.
(a) Uncontrolled and irresponsible breeding of animals contributes to pet overpopulation, inhumane treatment of animals, mass euthanasia at local shelters, and escalating costs for animal care and control; this irresponsible breeding also contributes to the production of defective animals that present a public safety risk.
During inclement weather when Durham County Government offices are closed, the Animal Protection Society and the Durham Animal Shelter will also be closed to the public, starting at 2PM Friday, January 6 through Tuesday, January 10, 2017.
[FN122] It is also a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $ 5,000 or imprisonment, or both, for a person who «is the owner or possessor, or has charge or custody, of any animal» to abandon that animal «in a street, road, or public place without providing for the care, sustenance, protection, and shelter» of the animal.
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