Sentences with phrase «u.s. shelters kill»

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Nearly 5,500 animals are killed in U.S. shelters every day, simply because they don't have homes.

With about 9,000 animals killed in U.S. shelters each and every day, we need to be open to new ideas that may run opposite to what we believe to be true.

When more than 4 million cats and dogs are killed in U.S. shelters every year, we need to be open to new, though sometimes controversial, lifesaving ideas.

Within a year San Francisco became the first U.S. city whose shelters killed fewer than five animals per 1,000 human residents.

Purpose of Study: Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) is an infectious disease that kills 1 in 100 to 1 in 300 of all cats in the U.S.. However, the incidence is 5 to 10 times greater among young cats coming from catteries and shelters.

Maxwell was trapped inside a cage when fire broke out Feb. 8 at the Seminole County Animal Control shelter on U.S. Highway 17 - 92, killing 32 cats and seven dogs.

33 U.S. shelter dogs & one U.K. shelter dog have participated in killing people since 2010, including 24 pit bulls, seven bull mastiffs, and two Rottweilers.

The only dogs rehomed from U.S. shelters to kill anyone, ever, before 2000 were two wolf hybrids in 1988 and 1989.

They wanted ARC to be part of a documentary they were creating and our emergency shelter would be their first stop on a five - thousand - mile journey around the U.S. as they would interview animal protection leaders, veterinarians, animal advocates, and other experts to learn what they are doing to reduce, and ultimately end the needless killing of 3 - 4 million homeless dogs and cats each year.

When animal lovers learn about the cruelty and killing that are rampant in U.S. shelters, and that national animal protection organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) defend these shelters and thwart efforts at reform, the first and the most logical question they ask is: Why?

The nationâ $ ™ s animal welfare organizations are not promoting the only effective model at ending the killing of savable animals in shelters There are some like Alley Cat Allies and Best Friends, which agree with all the programs, but only the No Kill Advocacy Center is promoting it nationally as the key to ending the systematic killing of five million dogs and cats in U.S. shelters every year.

In consequence, about 90 % of the dogs in the U.S. were mongrels, and about six million surplus puppies per year were among the eight million dogs per year killed by animal shelters.

On average of once a month, I am at a shelter somewhere in the U.S. helping them save lives or giving a seminar about how to achieve No Kill.

Amidst all the false claims, the sad truth is this: the number one documented cause of death for cats in the U.S. is being killed in a shelter.

Alley Cat Allies works with shelters to implement systemic change, transparency, and accountability within the U.S. animal control system to end the killing of cats.

Labrador mixes are another common mixed breed dog found in the U.S. Duke, a black Labrador Retriever mix, was previously waiting for his forever home at North Shore Animal League America, a no - kill animal shelter in New York.

The number one documented cause of death for all cats in the U.S. is being killed in animal pounds and shelters.

About KC Pet Project KC Pet Project is the 3rd largest No Kill, open admission animal shelter in the U.S..

Eastwood Ranch Foundation provides support to animal welfare groups, non kill shelters, rescues and sanctuaries around the U.S. by providing funding, support and logistical assistance to help better manage their organization.

For many years FIREPAW's primary research focus was conducting program evaluations, data analyses and strategic planning of ongoing programs for no - kill shelters and animal welfare organizations across the U.S..

Half of all pets born in the U.S. are accidents, leading to millions killed in shelters each year.

These transports, mostly from high - kill southern regions, are small but growing factors in a long - term decline in euthanasia at U.S. shelters.

U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D - VA) has introduced once again his resolution opposing the use of gas chambers to kill shelter animals, H. Res.

• Total number of nationwide animal shelters 5,000 • Number of companion animals that enter into animal shelters nationwide annually 5 million • Average annual number of companion animals that are euthinized at shelters 3.5 million • Percent of dogs in animals shelters that are euthanized 60 % • Percent of cats in animal shelters that are euthanized 70 % • Percent of cats that are returned to their owners 2 % • Percent of dogs returned to their owners 15 % • Total percentage of dogs claimed to be spayed or neutered 78 % • Total percentage of cats that are claimed to be spayed or neutered 88 % • Total number of animals that end up in a shelter that are spayed or neutered 10 % • Percent of dogs brought to shelters that were adopted by a shelter 20 % • Percent of dogs and cats that are adopted from shelters 25 % • Total number of dogs and cats that are bought at pet stores 6 % • Percentage of people that get their pets free or at low cost 65 % • Cost of taxpayer money annually to round up, house, kill and dispose of homeless animals $ 2 billion • Total percentage of dogs in shelters that are purebred 25 % • Total percentage of U.S. homes who own at least 1 companion animal 63 % • Total number of homes that own at least 1 companion animal 70 million • Tags:

From a pro-TNR website: «PETA is the last major animal advocacy group in the U.S. that overtly opposes TNR feral cat control and no - kill sheltering.»

He asked Dervan for the approximate number of animals killed in U.S. shelters each day and she told him: 5,500 dogs.

According to the American Humane Society, «Anti-cruelty laws exist in all U.S. states and territories to prohibit unnecessary killing, mutilating, torturing, beating, neglecting and abandoning animals, or depriving them of proper food, water or shelter.»

Redemption, the definitive book on animal sheltering in the United States, offers the formula to end the killing of up to 5 million homeless dogs and cats who enter U.S. shelters every year.

Many pioneers contributed to developing the methods of today The origins of no - kill dog and cat sheltering may be traced back as far as 1858, when Elizabeth Morris and Anne Waln cofounded the first animal shelter in the U.S. on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

Billeaud believes the transport program and its partnerships with other no - kill shelters throughout the U.S. is a key factor in AAA's animal rescue success.

This was at the time the lowest shelter killing rate in the U.S., and perhaps still is.

Many cities, animal control agencies and private shelters in the U.S. are forming alliances that they hope will lead to a no - kill nation in half a decade.

Nathan is the national director of the No Kill Advocacy Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the systematic killing of animals in U.S. shelters.

Every year, U.S. cities and communities needlessly round up millions of cats, put them in shelters, and kill them.

Best Friends Animal Society is on the ground in New York City, helping to save the lives of homeless pets, supporting other organizations in their efforts to make New York no - kill permanently and raising awareness about the more than 4,100 dogs and cats killed every day in U.S. shelters.

For 15 minutes, we will sit quietly, together, in remembrance of the nearly 2 million shelter pets killed annually in the U.S. Learn more and Sign up >>

Alley Cat Allies has charted a course set on animal control and shelter industry reform and humane treatment through activities including: advocating for pounds and shelters to keep public records of animal intake and kill rates, for public and mandatory government oversight, and for increased pound and shelter accountability; mobilizing and educating the public and leading the national movement to end the killing of cats and to protect and improve their lives; and supporting the efforts of, and acting as the national voice for, thousands of individuals and groups across the U.S. who provide humane care for stray and feral cats.

According to one source, more cats are killed by cars annually than are euthanized in U.S. animal shelters.

No one knows exactly how many cats are killed each year in the U.S. but research reveals that 7 out of 10 cats who enter the nation's shelter system are killed.

The national lifesaving concept space in New York City is designed to raise awareness for the nearly 5,500 dogs and cats killed every day in U.S. shelters and to engage people in the work Best Friends is doing to end the killing.

Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, all - breed dog rescue composed of a network of fosters and volunteers who work together to rescue sweet, loving, adoptable dogs from high kill, rural shelters in the southern U.S. states and get them adopted into wonderful forever homes.

U.S. animal shelters killed about 187,230 fewer dogs in the most recently completed fiscal year than the year before ---- and the entire reduction appears to have been in reduced killing of pit bulls, as the toll among acknowledged pit bulls fell from 910,000 to just 724,000, the lowest number in more than 15 years.

For every human killed or disfigured by a shelter dog, there have been hundreds of lesser bites, and ---- based on the ratios discovered by ANIMALS 24 - 7 described in Record 32,550 pit bulls killed or badly injured other animals in the U.S. in 2016 ----- probably upward of 100 other pets killed in their own homes.

What we do know, from the survey data that follows, is that U.S. animal shelter killing is down to about 2.7 million per year, including about 1.4 million cats (53 %) and 1.3 million dogs (47 %).

We know that U.S. animal shelters in the most recent fiscal year appear to have killed about 77,250 fewer cats than in the year before, but we do not know whether fewer homeless cats were actually killed.

U.S. animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years ---- nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 per 1,000 Americans, the lowest ratio on record ---- but is the recent dramatic progress really saving animal lives?

That translates into ending the killing of shelter pets in the U.S..

More than 4,100 animals are killed in U.S. shelters every day, simply because they don't have safe places to call home.

Only two dogs rehomed by U.S. animal shelters had ever killed anyone as recently as 2000, a pair of wolf hybrids who were rehomed in 1988 and 1989.

Nearly 5,500 healthy and adoptable dogs are killed in shelters across the U.S. every day yet most pet stores still in operation continue to promote and sell dogs from large - scale breeding facilities known as puppy mills.