Sentences with phrase «animals in your community including»

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As one of the few remaining, functioning businesses, Smith could supply desperately needed services to his community, including care to the dozens of cats, dogs, goats, horses and other animals in the community that suffered from burns and smoke inhalation.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

Recommendation: that after the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» is revised to no longer include small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, that buffer distances are determined in close collaboration with communities on a case - by - case basis where intensive agriculture is proposed.

Sunbridge students and their families are welcome to explore the Fellowship Community — including their beautiful farm (and farm animals), orchards, dairy, woodlands, and fields — and to occasionally participate in festivals and events held there.

Her 32 - year - old daughter, Sasha, has Down syndrome and receives Medicaid, which provides her with services, including transportation to sites, such as an animal shelter where she volunteers in her St. Lawrence County community.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Janeway also objected to a policy rider that would restrict disclosure of toxic and hazardous air pollution, including ammonia or hydrogen sulfide, released by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in rural communities.

While the same exact mechanisms are unlikely to be at work in humans, Dr Gilestro thinks that a lot of what they observe in fruit flies is applicable to higher animals: «Sleep is a fundamental process for all animals, and many of the results the community has obtained with fruit flies have been replicated in other animals, including mammals and humans.

These seeps support an entirely different community of animals, including anemones, tubeworms in the genera Lamellibrachia and Escarpia, and broad, white mats of bacteria.

«When an ecologist says, «There goes a badger,»» Elton wrote, «he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, «There goes the vicar.»»

Includes: the importance of communities, distribution and environment, organisms and their environment, competition in animals and plants, adapt and survive and competition in animals.

Five girls, including the two featured in the video, developed the two - minute spot to introduce their community to an amendment to the federal Animal Welfare Act, which excludes several creatures popular in lab research from being defined as animals, thereby denying them the standards of humane care, handling, and treatment animals now receive.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

Her volunteer experiences include Community Led Animal Welfare in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The mission of the Denver All Breed Rescue Network, Inc., is to provide a vehicle for the fostering and re-homing of abandoned purebred dogs, to assist in increasing the adoption of shelter dogs by promoting awareness and working with shelters, and to educate the community regarding responsible dog ownership including the spay / neuter of companion animals.

While he is also an advocate for the restoration of post war communities (including land mine removal efforts), Goldsmith has recently aimed his efforts towards the Morris Animal Foundation, a non-profit research group that pursues advancements in veterinary medicine and technology.

Our primary goals include finding the best home for each animal in our care, reducing pet overpopulation through our spay / neuter programs, and improving the lives of animals in our community.

Amy Wettlaufer — In her role as Program Manager with All About Animals Rescue, Amy Wettlaufer manages an active Community Cats program, which includes partnerships with the Macomb County Animal Shelter and the City of Warren.

Our standard presentation includes information about the East Bay SPCA's history and mission, bite prevention, dog body language, companion animal needs, and how children can help the animals in their community.

He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has created successful no - kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

Minimizing intake includes things like low - cost spay / neuter clinics, targeted spay / neuter outreach in poor communities and minimizing laws that cause animals to be removed from homes unnecessarily because they are certain breeds of dogs, not altered, or over the pet limit.

The pet community, including Ceva Animal Health, has come together and donated both time and money in droves.

These tours can be tailored to any level of interest, including those who work in animal welfare, or for community or classroom groups, or simply for private individuals.

Our Vision: To have animal unity in our community which includes a collaboration with the city, county and rescue organizations to support spay / neuter programs, reduce overpopulation, and promote animal adoptions from local shelters.

The mission of All Breed Rescue Network, Inc., is to provide a vehicle for the fostering and rehoming of abandoned purebred dogs, to assist in increasing the adoption of shelter dogs by promoting awareness and working with shelters, and to educate the community regarding responsible dog ownership including the spay / neuter of companion animals.

Cats can be altered when they reach 2 lbs (generally around 8 weeks) and there are several low - cost and even FREE options in our area — including our very own JHS Community Animal Hospital.

Iâ $ ™ ve volunteered with local shelters, have fostered hundreds of kittens, served on the Board of Directors of a humane society, was Director of Operations for one of the largest and most successful shelters in the nation, was Executive Director of an open admission animal control shelter which created the nationâ $ ™ s first (and at the time only) No Kill community, and have consulted with dozens more, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

Our current Spay Neuter Programs include our No Cost - Low Income Spay Neuter Program funded by Petco Foundation, Canine Spay Neuter Progam in partnership with a community S / N transport and our Cat Clinic Program in partnership with Carolina Animal Hospital.

The CVMA encourages and supports a community approach to dog bite prevention, including responsible breeding, training, pet selection and pet ownership as well as education on animals in the community.»

We believe that addressing puppy mill cruelty is essential to alleviating many of the other problems in the animal welfare community, including shelter euthanasia rates, animal abandonment, and owner relinquishment.

To address your point about offering assistance and helping people plan, we do just that via our No More Homeless Pets Network partner program (which includes a list of more than 1,000 rescues and shelters across the nation), our annual conference aimed to help educate animal lovers looking to make a difference in their communities, and numerous workshops held at the Sanctuary throughout the year.

They include implementing lifesaving policies for animals in communities and local animal shelters.

The animal protection community will remember him for making a difference in the lives of countless animals, including community cats.

Naturally, she volunteered her time and services to the local animal welfare community, including TLAC, and in 1999 began her own program called Emancipet — a free and low - cost mobile spay / neuter operation, which she grew into a local powerhouse that provided over 100,000 surgeries to the community by 2009.

Efforts have included reuniting people with displaced pets at Baytown Animal Shelter and in the community; providing pet food and supplies to help keep people and their pets together; assisting with adoptions at the shelter and through large - scale adoption events; recruiting new foster families to rescue pets from the shelter; expanding our roster of rescue partners and transporting pets to reputable organizations within a 200 - mile radius of Baytown; and working with veterinarian partners to provide low - cost and free services to rescued and owned pets.

They're a powerful source of experience, knowledge, training and insight that can guide animal shelters to improvements in every area of animal care, including those that cause the most ill - will with community members: low adoption rates, disease outbreaks and poor conditions in the shelter.

He oversees the organization's community - based programs, including animal control field services, humane law enforcement and the community cats program, which conducts free trap / neuter / return (TNR) services for community cats in the District of Columbia.

2007 — LSU SVM establishes a community companion animal health program, including an active spay / neuter component that will serve animal shelters in south Louisiana.

Opportunities include offering peer education in schools, speaking to small groups of similar age children at local events, volunteering at community based get - togethers, and creating unique ways to engage friends and family, and spread the word about animal rescue.

This community includes animal welfare advocates and supporters like you as well as the many animal welfare organizations in our area.

AWS operates an animal shelter and adoption center in West Kennebunk and offers life saving community programs including Pets and Women to Safety, Paws in Stripes, Paws Across America, Humane Education, Behavior and Training classes and the Shelter Spay / Neuter Clinic.

And dominance is now a topic on which the scientific community, including vets, leading animal behaviorists and dog trainers, are in agreement.

Volunteers are the heart and soul of C.A.R.E. and provide our full range of services, including animal care, fostering animals, conducting adoptions, providing humane education, participating in community outreach and fundraising.

Historically, large numbers of healthy animals, including community cats, have been destroyed by animal protection agencies for population control as well as to prevent the possibility of potential suffering at some time in the future.

As part of its commitment to the most vulnerable animals in its community, Danbury Animal Welfare Society operates various innovative programs, including a Senior - to - Senior discount adoption program.

July 4, 2017 — The Ottawa Humane Society has just expanded its adoption program to include cats with the FIV virus, helping even more of the animals in our community get their second chance.

Its desired results include a reduction in abandoned and euthanized animals; a reduction in the oversupply of kittens; a higher percentage of spayed / neutered and microchipped pets; and more community awareness of overpopulation and efforts to address it.

We have expanded our low cost spay neuter program which now provides more than 2,000 surgeries annual for animals in our community, including may underserved communities

Homeward Bound in the Heartland relies on community generosity to perform many of its functions, including feeding foster kids, homeless animals, feral cat colonies, and animals in low - income families.