Sentences with phrase «animals at pet»

I started working with animals at pet stores then moved on to veterinary medicine.

OBOL raises public awareness about the plight of homeless animals at pet expos and adoption events.

The Cambridge ordinance banned nearly all non-rescue, non-shelter sales of live animals at pet stores.

California will give their cause a huge boost if it becomes the first state in the nation to ban sales of such animals at pet stores.

In California, 36 local jurisdictions are among the more than 230 cities, towns, and counties across the country which have passed ordinances to stop the sale of cruelly bred animals at pet stores in their communities.

It has been reported that rabbits are the third most commonly euthanized animals at pet shelters.

Cathi began her career with animals at a pet store in Alaska in 1997.

But it allows pet stores to provide «space and appropriate care for animals owned by a city animal shelter or animal control agency, humane society, or non-profit rescue organization and maintain those animals at the pet store retail business or other commercial establishment for the purpose of public adoption.»

That's because Steve Sweikert, a Clark County deputy district attorney, said Nevada law allows breeders to sell their animals at pet stores if they follow certain regulations.

Teach them to swim, encourage them to make friends on the playground, try rollerskating or touch that animal at the petting zoo that they've previously kept their distance from.

If WE can afford to let them go low cost, no cost, or reduced fees — then maybe, just maybe we will encourage a person in the market for a new pet to ADOPT and not BUY an animal at a pet shop or a breeder.

When purchasing an animal at a pet store, buyers have no way of seeing where the animal came from and under what conditions it was bred and raised.

Not exact matches

Your list of credentials should probably include personal pet ownership — if not currently, at least in the past — as well as other pet - related experience, including working at a pet food store, an animal hospital or other animal - related business.

Putting animals in the overhead compartment is against the airline's policies, which say pets are required to travel in carriers that «must fit completely under the seat in front of the customer and remain there at all times.»

In Texas, emergency pet supply truckloads arrived at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in Houston and Dallas.

From those working to save more animals» lives at the shelter to those helping prevent pets from being there in the first place, we're covering the people and organizations that are making a difference.

Animal - rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer ¯ a bioethics professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values who was, once upon a time, beloved by those activists for his 1975 book Animal Liberation.

A kindly lover of animals, Buckland kept many domestic and exotic pets at home — and had no qualms about consuming their flesh after they passed away from old age.

Per health department regulations pets are not allowed, only certified service animals are permitted at the event.

Victoria's Agriculture Minister, Peter Walsh, condemned the strike, saying the picketers were «putting animal welfare at risk» and «causing hip pocket pain for growers».

But then the waitress brings a plate of salami, his face lights up and he changes tack, telling me he's recently become a part - owner of a pig farm on the Yorke Peninsula («It's called Pork on the Yorke», he says, laughing — it's not), and that he's considering getting a piglet as a pet to follow him around at Seppeltsfield («fuck they're funny animals!»).

Although the majority of the commercially available pet foods are based on a variety of animal - and plant - based ingredients, extremes at each end also exist, including vegetarian diets and those based on very high amounts of animal - based proteins.

UC Irvine's website features a nice look at Peter's transformation over the years — what I like about the current mascot is that he's got the «bicep - having, uniform - wearing anthropomorphic animal» thing that 99.9 percent of college use, but also is an anteater with a silly neck and huge proboscis.

On Sunday we went to one of our favorite pumpkin patches from some pumpkin - hunting; corn maze walking; animal watching, feeding and petting, followed by pumpkin carving at home.

Make your way through the corn maze, play a round of pumpkin checkers, milk a cow, play pumpkin tetherball, pet the barnyard animals, and more at Connors Farm (Danvers)

I used to be an avid animal lover had 1 - 2 dogs and at least 2 cats my whole life and thenmoivng out on my own I of course did not own a dog and even the cats were given up to my parents where they could have a better home... married a man who allergic to animal dander and an anti-anti histamine person I actually had to write out the pros and cons the biggest con being that I would not be able to have animals in my future at least not indoor cuddly hair all over the place pets that I was accustomed to.

We held Ava's 4th birthday party at a local farm where the kids had the option to feed and pet animals, have a pony ride, play in a giant tree house, and more.

As someone who worked with animals my whole life before becoming a stay at home mommy, and, yes, treated my cats and dogs like my children, when I actually HAD children, the four legged in the house became, * gasp * «pets», yes, still part of the family, just not as highly up on the ladder as the kiddos.

They range from the mundane (go look at the animals in the pet store) to crafty (make baby pants out of a t - shirt).

So at first, he may pretend he's shopping just like mommy, and later he may line up his stuffed animals and go shopping for pets.

Hand off the pet - training duties to the kids and watch as theylearn a little about animal behavior at the same time.

Here are some of the excluding criteria most experts agree on: «Obese parents; parents who smoke (either during pregnancy or at present); parents sleeping on a waterbed, recliner, sofa, armchair, couch or bean bag; parents who sleep on multiple pillows, a sagging mattress or a sheepskin or use heavy bedding, such as comforters or duvets; sleeping in overheated rooms; parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol; other children or pets who can or are likely to climb into the bed; and stuffed animals on the bed that could cover the baby's face.»

The animals and about 60 other furry, scaly and feathered friends make their home at Riegel Farm, a petting zoo run through the village Parks and Recreation Department.

On horseback and on foot, police, employees of a petting zoo, a Barrington veterinarian and other volunteers embarked on a roundup after the animal escaped from an enclosure at a vegetable stand's petting zoo at Buffalo Grove and Aptakisic Roads, said Buffalo Grove Police Sgt. Robert Leake.

Perhaps add an array of stuffed animals to cuddle with, a small nightlight, put a bedtime pet (like a turtle) on her nightstand, give her a CD player with a children's audio book or soft music for her to listen to at bedtime.

At 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris holds an event highlighting his bill that would ban pet stores from selling animals from for - profit «mills,» 31 - 19 Newtown Ave., Astoria, Queens.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Phil Boyle (R,C,I - Suffolk County) and Senator Sue Serino (R,C,I - Hyde Park) today joined with their legislative colleagues, law enforcement and hundreds of pet owners and animal advocates to hold the 6th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet Conneanimal advocates to hold the 6th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet ConneAnimal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet Connection.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), the driving force behind passage of the landmark Buster's felony animal cruelty law to protect people and pets, today is blasting the shocking decision by Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Angelo Delligatti to free a convicted animal torturer potentially putting public safety and the well being of companion animals at risk.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) and Senator Phil Boyle (R,C,I - Suffolk County) today joined with their legislative colleagues, law enforcement and hundreds of pet owners and animal advocates to hold the 5th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet Conneanimal advocates to hold the 5th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet ConneAnimal Advocacy Day at an event in Albany emceed by Steve Caporizzo from Pet Connection.

If at any time you or your pets have been exposed to a wild animal, or bitten by a dog or cat, you should contact the Erie County Department of Health at 716-961-6800.

A $ 65 million animal transit facility at JFK that opened a year ago to great fanfare, as «the world's only animal terminal and the first full - service quarantine facility» for the import and export of horses, pets, zoo animals and livestock sits empty due to a legal battle.

Anyone who has questions, or think they or their pet may have come in contact with saliva from this fox or any other wild animal should contact the Tompkins County Health Department at [phone].

A Queens animal hoarder convicted of 108 counts of animal cruelty dodged jail time at her sentencing Monday but was banned from owning pets for 10 years and was also...

If your pet is not up - to - date on its rabies shots, the ten - day confinement / observation period must take place, at the owner's expense, at an appropriate facility such as an animal shelter, veterinarian's office, or kennel.

The County Health Department reminds residents that if their pets have been exposed to a wild animal, or bitten by a dog or cat, to contact the department at 961-6800.

Fraser also predicts robotics and lab - grown tissue will converge to create animal cyborgs with machine brains and living flesh, allowing visitors to interact with more species at petting zoos.

At one point they took SM to a pet store to see how she would behave around snakes, an animal she had earlier told them she hated.

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

I began to find it increasingly difficult to reconcile using animals to test drugs at work while showering lavish attention on my pet dog at home.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the leading non-profit devoted to animal welfare, reports that in the 1970s American shelters euthanized between 12 and 20 million cats and dogs every year at a time when there were 67 million pets in U.S. homes.