Sentences with phrase «cat shelter designs»

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Or business students developing a functioning budget for the local animal shelter while Drafting students design the outdoor homes that the Carpentry students construct for feral cats.

, where they'll be living in foster homes and being part of a diagnostic study designed to help FeLV - positive shelter cats.

Architects design and build creative outdoor winter shelters for the city's strays, which are displayed at the event and then donated to caregivers with NYC Feral Cat Initiative to be put to use.

I believe Francis says it best, and I'll stick with his words: «The truth of the matter is that animals are dying in shelters because of outdated and discredited draconian adoption policies that are designed to protect the emotional well - being of the rescuer rather than to ensure a safe future life for a dog or cat.»

The truth of the matter is that animals are dying in shelters because of outdated and discredited draconian adoption policies that are designed to protect the emotional well - being of the rescuer rather than to ensure a safe future life for a dog or cat.

Designed by Orlando architect Miguel Lazaro Martin, the humane society's shelter will have glazed tile floors and walls, radiant heating for controlled animal comfort, special cat and puppy suites with open - up walls that allow fresh air and separate mature animals in individual indoor and outdoor kennel runs.

Cats will love this angular designed shelter with shingles and a base that is filled with indestructible peacock feathers.

With the 10 stamp designs — five cats and five dogs — the U.S. Postal Service hopes to raise awareness of the need to adopt shelter pets.

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The winner of the second annual Architects for Animals competition to design a shelter for New York's stray cats was a purrfect choice.

The intervention itself was designed and implemented in a comprehensive way by seeking numerous paths to engage pet owners and reduce shelter intake of cats and Pit Bull type dogs.

In a project called «Architects for Animals,» founded four years ago by Leslie Farrell, and presented by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, some of the city's most renowned architectural firms and designers design and build delightfully original winter shelters for New York City's outdoor «community» cats to provide them with a refuge from the cold.

Finally, the intervention itself was designed and implemented in a much broader and comprehensive way beyond just spay / neuter to prevent intake by seeking numerous paths to engage pet owners and reduce shelter intake of cats and Pit Bull type dogs (who are at high risk for longer shelter stays and euthanasia compared to other dogs).

The box was designed to help cats deal with the stress of being in a shelter.

These programs are designed to reduce intake, improve the conditions that cats experience in shelters, remove barriers to adoption and revolutionize the way community / feral cats are handled.

In 2003, LifeLine Animal Project opened its first shelter in Avondale Estates designed for dogs and cats with special needs, such as those with heartworms or those having been abused, often the first to be put down in many shelters.

This ends the cycle of impounding and killing healthy community cats, and allows shelters to focus more resources on adoptable animals, which is what they are designed for.

As Director of Maddie's Fund ®, she has launched a series of live and on - demand webcasts on various shelter medicine topics designed to help shelter personnel address medical and behavioral problems in shelter dogs and cats, thereby helping them save more lives.

The cageless environment was designed to encourage cats in the shelter environment to enjoy living in social groups to reduce stress and promote adoption.

Istanbul - based n11.com devoted a year of their Research and Development budget into coming up with a simple design that will literally provide homeless dogs and cats with shelter from the storm.

Additionally the design of the clinic increases the capacity of the veterinary staff to spay / neuter feral cats and shelter animals.

The Pyramid consists of six programmatic levels all designed to reduce the intake of cats and dogs coming into shelters, as well as get them out as quickly as possible.

The program is designed for people who can keep a dog or cat in their home during the week and place it up for adoption at CAP on the weekend, a time when most potential adopters visit the shelter.

Increased capacity in 2014 to humanely house feral cats at the shelter by building two additional large outdoor habitats specifically designed for feral cat comfort

Designed to encourage shelter pet adoption and regular veterinary care for cats, the campaign has been implemented in states including Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey and Oregon.

For this event, participating architectural design firms built and donated creative outdoor shelters to provide cats with refuge from the harsh elements.

To get started, Hilton spoke to cat behavioral specialists, teamed up with the city's oldest no - kill shelter, and set to work finding and designing the perfect space.

The shelter for cats comes with a solid construction and the design is top of the line.

In December, the organization spread the fun (and the wealth), heading to Washington, D.C., for the first time and holding a one - evening display of a new collection of nine out - of - the - box community cat shelters, designed by D.C. - area architectural firms.

The sold - out event at the D.C. chapter of the American Institute of Architects was designed to raise public awareness of community cats, and was packed with people snapping photos of the shelters, inspecting them inside and out, discussing their functionality and aesthetics, and voting for favorites.

Maddie's Fund grants are designed to help build and sustain a no - kill nation so that shelter dogs and cats can be guaranteed a loving home.

Feral cat caretakers are an inventive lot and there are many other designs for winter shelters that make use of Styrofoam and / or Rubbermaid storage bins.

It was engineered from scratch with the intention of overcoming the shortcomings of the common designs for cat shelters that were little more than variations on the decades - old dog house design.

The creative designs of these shelters help the cause architecturally (they generate good ideas for future shelters) and in other ways, too, as Michael Phillips, Community Outreach Coordinator of the New York City Feral Cat Initiative, a program of the Mayor's Alliance, points out.

For Milton, it was clear to our staff who met him at the shelter the he would benefit from a stay in our Studios, where he would get one - on - one attention from our specially trained volunteers and staff, in a tranquil environment designed to allow former shelter cats to decompress.

That's why Maddie's Institute has designed a learning track on stress reduction for cats in sheltering environments.

It seeks to partner with animal shelters to implement initiatives designed to increase the number of cats who leave shelters alive.

RELEASE — October 24, 2017, Los Angeles» Architectural Community Designs Innovative Outdoor Shelters for Homeless Cats Click here to view slideshow, or here to download 13 Shelter Designs & Detail, Accompanying High Resolution Image Files -LRB-.

The national lifesaving concept space in New York City is designed to raise awareness for the nearly 5,500 dogs and cats killed every day in U.S. shelters and to engage people in the work Best Friends is doing to end the killing.

And in 2014, Best Friends created NKUT (No - Kill Utah), a comprehensive initiative designed to decrease the number of cats and dogs entering shelters through spay / neuter services and increase the number of pets being adopted.

Cameron Moore of Target Zero has taken over 25,000 cats through such a program in Jacksonville, FL, and will be sharing the data behind her recommended program design with advocates who want to implement shelter diversion and TNR programs for cats in their communities.

A three - year study of euthanasia risks in a Philadelphia - area animal shelter concluded that adult dogs are most likely to die, purebred dogs are more likely to be reclaimed by owners, and that compilation of such information is necessary for the design of community intervention programs to reduce euthanasia of dogs and cats.

Sponsored by Maddie's Fund ® and led by Drs. Kate Hurley and Julie Levy, the Million Cat Challenge seeks to partner with animal shelters across North America to implement one or more, or all of five initiatives designed to increase the number of cats who leave shelters alive.

Take Shelter: Architects for Animals initiates well - designed homes for cats Wallpaper.com — April 8, 2016

In work funded by the Morris Animal Foundation, Dr. Hurley looked at how cage size and design affects shelter cat health and discovered that larger - sized cages and portals to combine two cages are better for cat health and well - being.

Preventing the births of unwanted cats and dogs through well designed spay / neuter assistance programs costs less money per animal over the long run than paying to catch, transport, shelter, and care for unwanted animals — who, all too often, will eventually be euthanized.

Did you know Cat Town started as a foster program designed to give vulnerable shelter cats an alternative path to adoption in a free - roaminf environment?

The program was designed to help the cats we already have at our shelter, and unfortunately the availability of barns and colonies we can place at are already too limited to handle the cats we have.

The Orange County animal shelter — which was designed to hold about 185 dogs and 150 cats — houses about 700 animals on any given day.

While the grants are not designed to cover adoption programs, the two organizations believe improving feline health and behavior will result in increased adoption of shelter cats.