Sentences with phrase «animals less opportunity»

Every day, perfectly healthy animals are euthanized to create more room in shelters and purchasing from breeders gives homeless animals less opportunity to have a home.

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Or that there is way less junk food that has no animal products in it, and so less opportunity to eat junk.

The most efficient ways of helping companion animals are likely to be almost fully funded, or fully funded in most areas.67 However, there seem to be much more efficient ways of helping farmed animals that aren't fully funded.68 Most donors are more willing to donate to help companion animals, so even though they could help more animals by donating to a farm animal organization, they donate to opportunities to help companion animals, funding the most efficient ways to help these animals, and then also less efficient ways.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

Plus, it gives them an opportunity to be around other animals, making it less stressful for them when they walk into a veterinarian's office.

By accepting animals from larger but less - specialized shelters, Felines Inc. provides them with an indefinite opportunity to be placed in loving, permanent homes.

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

Studies have shown that captive animals live healthier, less stressful lives if they have opportunities to spend time doing things they'd normally do in the wild.

The career has advantages for people who enjoy working with animals and people alike, in that the education can be completed in three years or less and can begin right after graduating high school, it is very affordable, pays a good hourly wage, and has job opportunities in a wide variety of fields.