Sentences with phrase «animal population control programs»
Effective animal population control programs exist: The number of pets received into county animal shelters and euthanized in CA each year has significantly declined over the past 20 years.
http://www.naiaonline.org/
The New Jersey Department of Health supports several animal population control programs to prevent animal overpopulation and to protect human health.
The purpose of the current study, conducted in 2005, was to revisit the population of cats and dogs in Santa Clara County 12 years following the earlier study, and to correlate pet population changes with the institution or disestablishment of animal population control programs, including vouchers, field services, and low - cost spay and neuter facilities.
The department is encouraged to in the animal population control program «clinics or mobile units» for free or low cost spay / neuter services.»
The NYC code changes also established «in the joint custody of the city comptroller and commissioner of finance» a city «animal population control fund» consisting of «all moneys collected from the animal population control program», [the license surcharge of at least $ 3.00 for unaltered dogs]... and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.
Revisions made last year to the New York City Code required the health department within 6 months of the law's effective date of January 1, 2011 «to establish and implement an animal population control program to reduce the population of unwanted stray dogs and cats».
Not exact matches
The federal Department of the Interior runs an adopt - a-horse-or-burro program to control the animals» populations in wildlife reserves.
Our mission is to provide moral, financial, and medical support for those fostering homeless pets; to end the practice of euthanasia as a means of population control, instead relying on spay and neuter and trap and return programs; and to create a sanctuary for animals not yet placed in foster or permanent homes.
I know a few years ago, there was a trap / spay / release program on the block and I was just wondering earlier today if it was still being done... it's the smartest way to keep the feral population under control while still remaining humane to the animals.
«This program has given me the knowledge to improve the lives of animals through effective population management and disease control,» Dr. Black said.
One study found that nuisance to animal control about cats decreased after a TNR program was implemented — even though the human population increased.
This program rescues the most vulnerable, at - risk population of dogs — elderly strays, puppy mill victims, and older dogs slated for euthanasia at animal control facilities.
We rely on our members to help us provide warm shelter, veterinary services and personal attention to all the animals in our care, in addition to offering proactive programs to the community that helps control the pet population.
Because we believe strongly that adoptions from rescue organizations and shelters are a benefit to our community and to the local homeless animal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proanimal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proAnimal Care and Control and its affiliated programs.
The measurable benefits of animal control programs are unknown and the aim of this study was to determine the impact of these programs on pet population changes.
Read the full article, which includes details on efforts to measure how animal control programs can affect different segments of cat populations.
This study documents the positive impacts publically subsidized low - cost spay and neuter programs can have that often go unmet in communities: pet population control, leading to the prevention of the proliferation of feral dog and cat populations, slowing the flow of animals into shelters both voluntarily and through field services, and reduction in the incidence of humane destruction of animals.
The Animal Assistance League of Orange County is a non-profit no kill humane society dedicated to aiding lost and homeless pets, helping people with pet related problems, promoting responsible pet - ownership and pet population control, and preventing cruelty to animals through educational programs.
Recognition of the human - animal bond that exists between caretakers and the feral cats they feed may facilitate the development of effective control programs for feral cat populations.
All of Iowa Humane Alliance's programs are aimed at reducing the number of animals going into shelters in the state of Iowa and ending euthanasia as a way of controlling the population of the animals we love.
Nothing is perfect but I fully agree with more controlled and limited breeding of all cats and dogs by responsible, reputable breeders to reduce the overall population, spaying and neutering all other dogs and cats and expanding the foster program, and helping some groups to become a sanctuary themselves to help those animals that are harder to adopt have a quality place to stay (following in the footsteps of the Best Friends model) until they are adopted, other programs that train some of these dogs to be therapy dogs, search and rescue dogs, dogs to help the handicapped, police dogs, etc..
First, I can not support diverting [the State's Animal Population Control Program Fund] funds from existing programs that have already proven effective for humanely controlling feral cat populations.
In fact, the purpose of New York's Animal Population Control Program Fund, as written into law, is to «reduce the population of unwanted and stray dogs and cats thereby reducing incidence of euthanasia and potential threats to public health and safety posed by the large population of these animals.»
The York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing long - term human and animal services to residents of York County through programs that find permanent, loving homes for displaced and stray animals, help control animal population growth, investigate and prosecute cruelty offenders and educate the general public about animal wellness and Animals (SPCA) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing long - term human and animal services to residents of York County through programs that find permanent, loving homes for displaced and stray animals, help control animal population growth, investigate and prosecute cruelty offenders and educate the general public about animal wellness and animals, help control animal population growth, investigate and prosecute cruelty offenders and educate the general public about animal wellness and safety.
It is not appropriate that responsible breeders pay to correct the government's inability to control the feral cat population, educate the public, provide low - cost spay / neuter programs, and prosecute animal smugglers and fighting dog breeders.
That's why Animal Care Services has a robust Community Outreach Program designed to support the shelter's mission of enhanced enforcement, increasing live release, controlling the roaming population, and engaging and educating the community.
Humane Society of McCormick County, McCormick, SC, is a private, non-profit, no - kill organization dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals, to providing shelter and care for lost and unwanted animals, to implementing educational programs and services, to promoting responsible pet ownership including population control and to placing animals in humane environments.
A TNR program in Maricopa County, Arizona, called the «Maddie's Pet Rescue Project» was so successful the County Board of Supervisors issued a resolution stating: «Maricopa County Board of Supervisors does hereby endorse non - lethal trap - neuter - return, when accompanied by ongoing feral cat management, as the most effective, humane method of controlling feral cat populations in Maricopa County and in so doing better provides for the welfare of these animals while better serving our communities» public health and safety concerns.»
They worked to educate the township officials at numerous meetings about TNR, how the program would humanely reduce the population of feral cats and save the township animal control costs.
The Animal Assistance League of Orange County is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 no kill humane society dedicated to aiding lost and homeless pets, helping people with pet related problems, promoting responsible pet - ownership and pet population control, and preventing cruelty to animals through educational programs.
The mission of Iowa Humane Alliance is to forge partnerships and develop programs to reduce animal shelter admissions and end euthanasia as a form of population control.
There also are programs that will help you arrange for the free spay and neuter of the street cats in your neighborhood, to help control the cat population while providing humane treatment of the animals.
Ideally the operation of the program is legalized and codified by the adoption of a local ordinance to regulate the circumstance and procedures under which the cats are humanely trapped and returned as a means of controlling the community cat population and a compassionate alternative to putting healthy animals to death.
«The McKee Project promotes cultural change to improve the quality of life of dogs and cats in developing nations and strives to control companion animal population by supporting communities in starting sustainable spay and neuter programs.»
Most developing nations don't have shelter facilities or governmental programs to humanely control population of companion animals.
In 2003, Costa Rican government outlawed euthanasia as a form of animal population control so instead, this nation relies on high - volume, low - cost spay and neuter programs to keep numbers of unwanted animals at manageable levels.
To carry out our humane commitment to the animals of Benton County by operating an open - door shelter and caring for homeless animals; providing education and enrichment programs to promote healthy human - animal bonds; offering access to low - cost services to those in need, with an emphasis on population control; developing progressive outreach programs; setting a high standard of animal care and husbandry; supporting opportunities for clinical education; and enhancing our funding resources to continue expanding these efforts.
TNR is the only humane method of community cat population control — and it works, especially when it is part of a shelter - integrated program run in cooperation with local animal control agencies.
The ASPCA encourages cat advocates, animal shelters and rescues, local government officials and the public to work together, and believes that lawful TNRM, RTF, and, as a last resort, community cat relocation programs, are humane and effective approaches for managing and controlling community cat populations.
Thousands of volunteers and animal welfare groups throughout the country stepped forward in the early 1990s to control the wild cat population through mass sterilization programs.
And I dare say that your tax dollars will go farther with a TNR program than the time it takes for animal control to round - up the population and gas them, and as long as there is a food source they will keep coming back!
When I learned of the TNR program, I concluded this was a much better solution to the feral / stray cat population problem compared to depending the «random acts of kindness» by others or efforts by the «animal control authorities».
Some animal control authorities have what's called a «capture - neuter - return» program, which allows these cats to do their self - appointed mice and rat catching duties without adding to the local cat population.