Not exact matches
It was created
in February 2009 by a group of people
in the Atlanta area who wanted to do more to save the many
adoptable dogs and cats who found themselves on death row
in Georgia animal control
facilities.
The photo above is of FOTAS Volunteer Karen Brady spending time with
adoptable shelter
dogs Iago (left) and Octavia
in one of the
facility's play yards.
Several times per week, Mary Ellen Tidwell, the President of Crossing Paths Animal Rescue, visits one of the many the high - kill
facilities in Alabama and removes as many
adoptable dogs as she can accommodate
in her own kennels and foster homes.
In 1997, a small group of volunteers, motivated by the unnecessary deaths of thousands of adoptable pets in our local shelters, recognized that Washoe County needed a new type of animal rescue facility — a facility dedicated to giving the dogs and cats at our municipal animal control shelter a second chance at life before their time ran ou
In 1997, a small group of volunteers, motivated by the unnecessary deaths of thousands of
adoptable pets
in our local shelters, recognized that Washoe County needed a new type of animal rescue facility — a facility dedicated to giving the dogs and cats at our municipal animal control shelter a second chance at life before their time ran ou
in our local shelters, recognized that Washoe County needed a new type of animal rescue
facility — a
facility dedicated to giving the
dogs and cats at our municipal animal control shelter a second chance at life before their time ran out.
He was also involved
in developing a
dog training program at the Mansfield Correctional
Facility that utilizes inmates to train shelter
dogs in order to learn a skill and make the
dogs more
adoptable.
It seeks to rescue
adoptable dogs and puppies from animal shelters and animal control
facilities, rescue
dogs and puppies from abusive and neglectful situations, including puppy mills and «backyard breeders», help educate the public on proper animal care and promote spaying and neutering of all pets, provide medical treatment for all animals
in our care, provide foster homes for all animals
in our care, and place rescued animals
in permanent, loving homes.
Hudson eventually sent 22 of the Vick pit bulls to Best Friends and 10 to BADRAP, «with stipends of $ 5,000 for each
dog considered
adoptable, and $ 20,000 for each
dog considered so aggressive that it will have to spend significant time, if not its entire life,
in a special
facility,» wrote McGlone.
When the San Francisco SPCA dropped its contract as the city's animal control agency and began its quest to save all
adoptable cats an
dogs in the city, it was criticized by some other California shelters that questioned its definition of «
adoptable» and complained that no - kill
facilities merely shift the burden of killing to other shelters.
Even if we could disregard the other offenses that take place
in these breeding
facilities, the fact that 2.7 million
adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized every year is enough reason to refrain from purchasing a companion animal.
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.
Because we do not operate out of a shelter or have a
facility in which to house our
adoptable dogs, we rely heavily on volunteers who lovingly open their hearts and their homes, offering temporary accommodations.
Over the past year, we have formed a relationship with TJ O'Connor
in Springfield to assist with transferring
adoptable dogs from their
facility to ours.