Sentences with phrase «animal shelter budgets»

The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of limited animal shelter budgets.

Not exact matches

They began with a summary of all changes made to the budget including the cancellation of the proposed renovation and upgrade of the Hi - Tor animal shelter.

With tax revenues booming, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday proposed a new $ 82.2 billion city budget that included goodies for just about every constituency, from a $ 50 million pool on Staten Island to animal shelters in Queens and The Bronx.

BY JOE KUHN The Orangetown Town Board convened this week to review budget presentations from several departments and services including the Rockland Paramedics, the Nyack Ambulance Corps, Hi Tor Animal Shelter and the Orangetown Department of Environmental Management and Engineering.

Or business students developing a functioning budget for the local animal shelter while Drafting students design the outdoor homes that the Carpentry students construct for feral cats.

Is this simply about affecting the city budget by privatizing our municipal animal shelter and couching it as concern for the animals?

The animal shelter cuts are part of Brown's proposed $ 92.5 billion budget that would eliminate 50 mandates or reimbursable amendments that have been suspended for the last two years or more, said H.D. Palmer, deputy director of California's Department of Finance.

Discussion centered on a management and budget department report that criticized 13 aspects of animal control operations, including finances, a rebate program for pet spaying and maintenance of the county animal shelter.

... As of 2013, Charity Navigator listed 80 major U.S. animal shelters with budgets over $ 3.5 million, together endowed with $ 835 million.

Perhaps some of the public funds budgeted for shelters to kill animals could be better spent helping rescue groups who are proactive in matching adoptable pets to suitable homes.

We're celebrating by sharing the clever ways shelters and rescues reuse & and recycle materials to provide animals top - notch care on a budget.

We also quickly realized that the budget for our local animal control agencies is so small that we would have to go into the shelters and donate services immediately in order to provide assistance.

The stress on shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the shelter; counties lacking even a shelter or inside kenneling.

In doing so, RCHS went from being an all - volunteer non-profit with a budget of $ 80,000 and no office, to an organization with three full - time employees, a budget of over $ 300,000 and an animal shelter to run.

Supplemented the Shelter's Medical Budget to provide both preventative and rehabilitative medical care for hundreds of animals including treatment of 196 adoptable heartworm positive dogs through FOTAS» Save a Heart, Have a Heart Program

They approached the City of Pullman to offer a solution to the animal care situation when budget cutbacks made it impossible for the city to adequately staff and maintain its animal shelter facility.

Board members have argued that the euthanasia rate at the shelter is too high; the Humane Society has argued that its budget forces the destruction of animals whose veterinary bills would be too high.

The shelter is designed to be a comfortable and healthy environment for the animals and for the staff, with the resources and space needed for the present and for future needs, with budget and sustainability as a priority.»

If the shelter provided its budget and an approximate or actual number of animals served, those were recorded and used to produce an estimate.2 If we could not find enough information on the shelter website to make an estimate, nothing was recorded.

For instance, requiring shelters to alter animals before adoption and to devote a substantial proportion of their annual animal control and shelter budgets (e.g., 10 - 20 %) to offering free spay / neuter services would do far more to help cats and reduce pet overpopulation than cat licensing and other punitive mandates.

We are federal and state tax - exempt so we take donations of items and money and every cent (except our power bill) goes to hosting Low cost vaccination events, helping low budget pet owners have their animals vetted, and we help pay for our shelter to have dogs and cats spayed or neutered.

The Napa County Animal Shelter does not get to pick and choose its residents; their intake has no restrictions; their facility, employees, budget are required to meet the space, needs and care of every animal in our county; they do not have the commonly - utilized option to say,» it breaks my heart to say this, but I'm sorry, we're full right now... please call someone else.&Animal Shelter does not get to pick and choose its residents; their intake has no restrictions; their facility, employees, budget are required to meet the space, needs and care of every animal in our county; they do not have the commonly - utilized option to say,» it breaks my heart to say this, but I'm sorry, we're full right now... please call someone else.&animal in our county; they do not have the commonly - utilized option to say,» it breaks my heart to say this, but I'm sorry, we're full right now... please call someone else.»

Animal shelters may be appropriate sources of pets for families with low budgets or the desire to save an unfortunate dog from euthanasia at a kill shelter or a long stay in a no - kill shelter.

Summit County's 2003 Budget report (PDF) includes what appears to be a request for four additional pound - keepers, which would have doubled the staff caring for animals at the shelter.

Northeast Animal Shelter receives no local, state or federal funding and is entirely dependent on contributions from the public to cover its annual operating budget.

An abundance of homeless and displaced animals have strained the no - kill shelter's resources, stretching their budget to the max and forcing them to seek assistance from other no - kill shelter partners in various parts of the country.

You've done your research, budgeted for a new pet, visited animal shelters, found the perfect pet — and now you're ready to bring your adopted pet home.

Orange County leaders voted today to bolster its animal services budget by $ 355,000, a move prompted in large part by the death of Hershey, a pit bull terrier who was accidentally euthanized at its shelter last summer.

We are a very small shelter and accept animals as space and budget allows.

Shelter managers and animal welfare organizations must budget carefully, prioritizing food above all else.

But when surgery isn't in the cards — or the budget — for your animal shelter, managing those fractures can often be done humanely and effectively without it.

Our staff and volunteers care for animals at the shelter 365 days a year, and our service and adoption fees cover less than half of our annual budget.

If our adoption fees don't fit in to your budget, please visit the local animal shelter run by the county.

Aware that shelter budgets are often insufficient to cover animals» basic medical and emergency care in a timely manner, the group felt compelled to work together towards a solution.

During the spring and summer, animal shelters all over the country become packed to the brim with an influx of felines, which can stretch their budgets and supplies extremely thin.

Last year the Alachua County Animal Shelter, with a budget of a little more than $ 1 million, took in 4,827 cats and had to destroy 3,714 of them.

And social media is an easy way for smaller organizations and low - budget shelters to help the animals in their care.

The plaintiffs also questioned the allocation of the shelter's astonishing $ 7.1 million annual budget: Staff are each paid $ 100,000 annually for what are patronage jobs; yet the animals go without sufficient veterinary care, an animal behaviorist or trained staff.

«Small shelters often have small budgets and they can't provide staff overnight so this was seen as an option to help animals found at night, but drop boxes generally aren't the best solution,» she said.

«It's incredible to have shelter directors thinking in terms of operations and budgets engaging with veterinarians who are thinking about medicine and behavior, or to have animal control officers learning to work with vets to gather evidence in cases they are investigating» said Dr. Spencer.

But with small budgets and little time to devote to advertising animals looking for a home, finding a forever home for hundreds of animals can be very difficult for a local shelter operation.

Many veterinarians practicing in low - income areas or in animal shelters on limited budgets are still using the more inflammatory adjuvanted rabies vaccines.

Too many animals, a tight budget and not enough time: These are facts of life at many shelters, but a data - based approach can help shelters make the most of limited resources by targeting them where they'll have the biggest impact.

For those who prefer not to gamble with the shelter budget, an alternative is to request the Board of Supervisors to allocate seed money for a trap / alter / release program, after showing them the future savings to the animal control budget.

Unfortunately, it can be very expensive, especially for animal shelters, rescue groups, and municipal agencies working with limited budgets.

The shelter has been open for a little less than six years and boasts a 99 percent save rate for its animals, with little to no budget.

Donations from compassionate individuals and businesses in our community are our primary source of funding.The cost of providing shelter, food and medical care for more than 3,000 animals each year far exceeds what we take in from adoption fees, and town contracts amount to less than 7 % of our overall budget.

Most Indiana animal welfare groups and shelters operate on shoe - string budgets.

'' «One of the things that has been detrimental to our budget is when municipalities bring in stray animals, they are only responsible for the care of the animal for the first seven days,» she said.After that the SPCA takes on the cost of care while the pets are in the shelter, regardless on their length of stay.

Delta County used to have a county - run animal shelter, but budget cuts forced the facility's closure in August of 2011.