Shelter directors get a lot of criticism, and all kinds of people approach them with all kinds of agendas.
Not exact matches
The 10 - acre park, which
Director Larry DeGraaf describes as «run down,» will
get three new baseball fields, a hiking and biking path, new playground equipment, a picnic
shelter, a sand volleyball court and an in - line skating rink.
«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to
get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive
director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.
The nominees could very well end up being the same as
Director (Beginners, The Descendants, Drive, Shame, and Take
Shelter), though I'd say at least one
gets upended by the likes of Like Crazy, Rampart, or The Tree of Life.
The optimism of youth
gets scrambled with the affairs of adults in «Mud», the latest film from writer /
director, Jeff Nichols («Take
Shelter»).
«With three to four million pets still euthanized across the nation each year, we created the Rescue Waggin» program to help
shelters achieve their goals of
getting more adoptable pets placed into good homes — wherever those homes may be,» says Susana Della Maddalena, Executive
Director of PetSmart Charities.
Shelter directors from open - admission public and private
shelters in Michigan and Minnesota will be sharing their secrets of success at the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance's «
Getting to the Goal» Conference in Troy, Mich., on Sept. 4 - 5, 2014.
The significance of the above calculations is that we can
get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on
shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the
shelter and before homeless pets clog those
shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of
shelter directors and the rescue community.
«When we found out we were able to
get the grant from PetSmart Charities, it was huge,» said Kari Vincent, Norfolk SPCA
shelter operations
director.
«Kay's great about bringing the pets and
getting the word out to the public what they're in need of and what events they have coming up to support the
shelter,» Lewis said of Hyman, Charleston Animal Society's
Director of Community Engagement.
As we go forward we need to have training resources for
shelter directors that
get down to a very granular level of detail of implementation.
If personnel and policy decisions are controlled by the government hierarchy, above the level of the
shelter director, it can greatly hinder
getting to No Kill.
In Boston, FlexPetz» next target city, that would be: the Animal Rescue League of Boston (Jay Bowen, President, 617-226-5680), MSPCA (Carter Luke, President, 617-522-5055), Buddy Dog Humane Society (Laurie Lincoln, Executive
Director, 978-443-6990) and local
shelters and rescues (
get contact info on petfinder.com).
«It's about
getting the dogs out of the
shelter for a break and spoiling them a little bit,» says SPCA of Brazoria County executive
director Stacey Allen Suazo.
; — RRB - When I told the
shelter Director what I bought for Vanilla, she nodded in approval and said «You
got the good stuff.»
The
director of the
shelter begged me come
get him, even taking him into the cat room to see if he reacted to the cats aggressively, and begged me to come
get him as he was days away from being put down.
«We expect some of the most valuable information each
shelter will
get will come from the other participating
shelters,» said Dr. Julie Levy,
Director of the University of Florida program.
That was the wake - up call Oregon Humane Society
Director Sharon Harmon
got when she took a look at how she and others at the
shelter were thinking about the people who wanted to adopt from them.
Karen Hirsch, Public Relations
Director at LifeLine Animal Project share with WagBrag that, «county
shelters in the metro Atlanta area are more crowded than ever», so if you are wanting to
get a pet this holiday season please think about adopting.»
«Often, the rabbits are coming from
shelters,» says Lehr, the organization's managing
director, «or from a rescue who
gets overloaded.
Kevin Sheehan, senior managing
director of real estate for Greystar, Charleston, S.C., said many of the Greystar communities host pet - friendly events such as «Yappy Hours,» pet costume contests, and other
get - togethers to encourage responsible pet adoption from area
shelters.
Shirley wrote to
shelter director about a dog she saw on webcam and offered to
get dog veterinary care, but dog had already been killled.
Abigail Kamleiter,
director of the No Kill South Carolina initiative, said the statewide effort
got off the ground in the last year and a half and that she's been pleased by the reception she received while visiting nearly every animal
shelter, about 80, in the state.