Sentences with phrase «care than a shelter»

Certain animals — such as nursing mothers, newborn puppies and kittens, and those with medical issues — often require more space or personalized care than a shelter can provide.

Not exact matches

What better way to push back against the darkness than to step into it with the very things it's trying to take away — food, shelter, medical care, protection.

This year, The Bowery Mission provided more than 406,000 meals to men, women and children, 91,000 nights of shelter and 44,000 articles of clothing, as well as showers, haircuts, and expert medical and optometric care.

It serves more than 500 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and day - care centers in 13 Illinois and five northwest Indiana counties.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50 cats.

«With more than 60,000 homeless New Yorkers sleeping in New York City shelters and thousands more out on the street, we need to take every measure to protect those in our care.»

I have spent more time than I care to during the spring in a tornado shelter.

First, there are more animal shelters than we thought — more than 7,000 — providing the valuable service of caring for and finding homes for 5.5 million dogs.

In 2017, Purina provided more than 395,000 pounds of Purina Pro Plan dog and cat food and Tidy Cats cat litter to SDHS, giving the shelter one less (big) thing to worry about and allowing them to focus more resources on helping the pets in their care find forever families.

At San Diego Humane Society, we are responsible for the care of more than 1,500 animals in our shelters on any given day.

Study: Save 5 times more dogs, cut costs and improve health in your animal shelter Short of finding a magic wand, there's really nothing better than foster care programs for boosting lifesaving, cutting costs and improving health in animal shelters.

Behind the scenes, the East Bay SPCA's Travers Family Compassion and Care Center hosts more than double the animals available for adoption in the Oakland shelter's public adoption area.

Fosters also care for animals that need more time and attention than the shelter can provide during the peak of kitten season, such as cats with treatable medical problems.

Soon there are more cats than the citizen can afford to take care of and they bring them to the shelter and expect the shelter to find them homes and provide medical care.

Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets: $ 372,000.

As movements and activists urge potential pet parents to «adopt don't shop,» working to minimize the wasteful death of innocent animals, caring people everywhere have opted to find their furry friends at shelters and rescues rather than pet stores and breeders.

All of the groups bringing animals to the event, including the ASPCA, Animal Haven Shelter, Bide - a-Wee, and NYC's Animal Care & Control, are members of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals — a coalition of more than 100 animal shelters and rescue groups that are working with the City of New York to transform New York City into a no - kill community.

A shelter which says killing is wrong and chooses not to take in more animals than they can humanely care for is not derelict because it refuses to kill animals.

As the largest No Kill animal shelter in Kansas City, we care for more than 10,000 animals a year and work collaboratively with Animal Control and other animal welfare organizations to increase the number of homeless pets adopted, and focus on lifesaving programs promoting pet retention, identification, lost pet reunions, and pet ownership education throughout the community.

American Humane Association is challenging 1 million people to take the Kindness 100 Pledge online at www.Kindness100.org to protect and better the lives of animals in four distinct areas, including 10 billion farm animals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers.

In most shelters, this is less than the cost of one day of care for a healthy animal, and certainly less than care for seriously ill animals.

So rather than wait due to concern about ownership issues, it is likely much safer for the animals and the shelter's reputation to provide vaccination in a good - faith effort of protecting the animals entering care.

Typically, these fees reflect the amount of veterinary care that has gone into the animal, but county shelters and humane societies may have lower adoption fees than rescue groups with the same amount of veterinary work if the shelter receives external subsidies.

I'm not trying to talk anyone out of adopting, but caring for a shelter dog for years to come is more than just a one - time save - a-life-and-forget-it thing.

More than 100 volunteers from across the country, many from other shelters, are in Joplin helping out - cleaning cages, providing veterinary care and exercising the animals.

They try to solve this problem by encouraging or requiring people to spay or neuter their pets (to reduce the number of cats and dogs who need homes), 57 encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters rather than purchasing them from pet stores or breeders (to increase the number of people looking to provide homes to animals in shelters), 58 and donating money to shelters and foster programs that care for cats and dogs waiting to be adopted (so they can house animals for longer).59 Collectively, these solutions have greatly reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters.60 The problem is well understood, although making further progress in solving it may be expensive in areas where all these solutions have already been implemented.

More than 200 dogs and puppies rescued from a commercial breeding facility in Estrie, Quebec last May — along with numerous puppies who were born subsequent to the seizure — are ready to leave the emergency shelter and be placed for adoption following weeks of care and rehabilitation.

The non-profit agency, Captain Care, does its utmost to keep pets at home with their family, rather than in the shelter system.

HSI Canada has been helping care for the dogs and puppies for more than two months at an emergency shelter near Montreal while awaiting a hearing to determine their custody.

Current thinking says that euthanasia is warranted for less than one percent of all animals entering a shelter, because of modern veterinary science and ways to preserve quality of life through palliative and hospice care.

This includes everything from requiring medical care needed that is greater than a shelter can offer to just a lack of space at a shelter.

Getting basic care from people who can't afford expensive food or vet bills is better than languishing in shelters, getting dumped by the road, being euthanized despite good health because nobody wants them, etc..»

Caring for kittens in such case is better trusted than the local animal shelter.

Our shelter in Largo cares for more than 8,000 animals annually that have been surrendered by their owners, along with injured wildlife.

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., founded in 2002 and powered by Maddie's Fund ®, The Pet Rescue Foundation, with support from the ASPCA, is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.

What traditionally may be called hospice care, Lizzy's Fund considers this care as a success when an animal is loved, cared for, and its end of life process is accompanied by a loving environment rather than languishing in a shelter.

American Humane is asking animal advocates to pledge to do four simple things to better the lives of animals: buy humanely raised foods with the American Humane Certified ™ seal to support farm animals; adopt one of the more than 6 million animals abandoned to animal shelters each year; watch movies and shows that contain the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end credit supporting more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain and educate us each year; and visit Humane Certified ™ zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers caring for the many endangered and disappearing species of the world.

These fees help to provide care for the other animals in the shelter or rescue group who may have medical bills that are much higher than any possible adoption fee.

On any given day, we care for more than 100 dogs and 120 cats at our shelter, and more in our network of foster families.

Now, shelters across the county bring the tiniest of cats - and sometimes their moms - to the Gaines Street warehouse where more than 100 volunteers and 12 staff members provide around - the - clock care.

They took over operations in January 2012, and in just six months, transformed the high - kill shelter into one that was saving more than 90 % of the animals in their care.

Sunny transformed almost immediately from a sad shelter dog to a happy, beaming family member, and she thrived for more than two and a half years in Lori's care.

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charity that works with more than 150 partner rescue groups and shelters, including Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC), to offer important programs and services that save the lives of NYC's homeless animals.

At the request of the SPCA of Texas, the ASPCA has deployed a team of professional responders to provide sheltering support and daily care for more than 150 animals displaced by Hurricane Harvey at an emergency shelter established by the SPCA of Texas in Dallas.

Her generosity supports the Humane Society in providing warm shelter, loving care and medical assistance to more than 2,000 animals in Kootenai County each year.

Some dogs come from local animal shelters and humane societies that contact us because the dog may need more medical care or one - on - one attention than they can provide.

When the shelter in the example above took in 10 more animals than were adopted one day, the next day they had an extra 10 in their care, and this will be sustained until active steps are taken.

The fund enables the Camden County Animal Shelter to provide costly medical care and procedures to needy pets wanting nothing more than to continue loving and enjoying life with a human companion.