Sentences with phrase «between community animal shelters»
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by focusing on partnerships between shelters, veterinarians and the community to decrease shelter intake and improve health, welfare and positive outcomes for homeless animals.
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We focus on finding adoptive homes for the animals in our shelter, providing low - cost veterinary care to the public, and through community involvement and education we are able to further the bond between people and animals.
Between 2009 and 2015, the intake of community cats at Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services decreased from 5,173 to 2,604 a 50 % decrease that translated into a decrease in shelter deaths (overall cat intake during that same timeframe decreased from 12,920 to 6,427).
Dr. Newbury focuses on partnerships between shelters, veterinarians and the community to improve health, welfare and positive outcomes for homeless animals.
Transports, by taking animals from an area of low demand for shelter pets to an area of high demand, can level the playing field between communities.
Through our own pet retention and community medicine work in New York and Los Angeles, we are learning how effective collaboration between animal welfare, law enforcement and human service agencies can be in helping people keep pets, reducing the numbers of animals entering shelters, and allowing more effective use of shelter and law enforcement resources.
From the heartland of Texas where dozens of cities now claim live release rates between 90 % to 99 %, to the shores of the Great Lakes where over 50 of Michigan's 80 sheltered communities have likewise done the same, causing killing to plummet and adoptions to skyrocket, and all points north and south, east and west and in between, virtually all marks on the compass now point in the direction of an American shelter which has replaced the killing of nine out of 10 animals with humane, life - affirming alternatives.
The ASPCA believes that while effective shelter policies must strike a difficult balance between appropriate discretion and necessary accountability, the primary responsibilities of animal shelters are to identify and pursue successful placement options for the animals in their care, provide quality care to the animals sheltered and to fulfill the needs of pets and people in the community they serve.