Not exact matches
Local
animal welfare organizations, rescue
groups and shelters
often offer low - cost vaccinations, spaying and neutering.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ---- The 2007 conviction of football star Michael Vick for dogfighting helped hundreds of
animal welfare executives and their minions to get filthy rich, yet the
animal advocacy
groups pocketing the money did little, if anything, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the April 20, 2007 drug bust and April 25, 2007 police raid that sent Vick to prison, sent pit bull advocates laughing all the way to the bank, and ---- indirectly ---- sent tens of thousands of human and
animal dog attack victims to hospitals, veterinarians, and
often their graves.
Still, she thinks we have a long way to go in terms of addressing the in - fighting and «us vs. them» mentality
often found between different
groups of people working within
animal welfare — all of which contributes to compassion fatigue.
Fully equipped to handle an emergency during surgery, and staffed with trained and experienced veterinarians, many of these mobile clinics offer fast and low - cost sterilization,
often funded by donations from concerned citizens and
animal welfare groups.
I hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and
animal -
welfare groups, while
often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.
Opportunities can
often be found in
animal welfare groups, zoos and conservation projects.