Sentences with phrase «cats come into the shelter»

These programs lower the number of cats coming into shelters, help prevent feline disease and suffering, manage the flow of cats into shelters, and promote adoption.

Instead, all feral cats coming into the shelter would be turned over to FCNMHP or other animal welfare organizations.

Published in the November, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, «Prevalence of serum antibody titers against feline panleukopenia virus, feline herpesvirus 1, and feline calicivirus in cats entering a Florida animal shelter,» presented data indicating the majority of cats coming into a shelter do not have immunity to the common feline diseases feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), feline herpesvirus 1 (FHV1) and feline calicivirus (FCV).

The study found that 33 percent of all cats coming into shelters were black; gray cats accounted for the second - highest number, totaling 22 percent of all cats.

We are developing a waiting list of people to call when we have such cats come into the shelter.

So while there are some ownership rights issues that owners should be given an opportunity to reclaim their lost cat, the reality is that if a cat comes into a shelter in the US without a collar or microchip, its odds are statistically nearly 0 % of being returned home.

Do our current methods of running TNR programs really make a difference to the overall problem of community / feral cats coming into shelters and subsequently being euthanized there?

Last year, 3,947 dogs and cats came into the shelter and only 456 were adopted.

Heckman said for a while after the last outbreak, all cats coming into the shelter were vaccinated.

Seriously — Have you noticed fewer cats coming into your shelter?

Not exact matches

Cats generally don't go into heat during the winter months, so shelters see a flood of kittens come through their doors in the spring, many without their mothers.

These maps allow you to see where at - risk animals — cats and dogs living in areas that are sending the most animals into shelters — are coming from and target those hot spots with intervention programs.

When you come into the shelter, we invite you to interact with the dogs and / or cats.

Next, the ASPCA counsels, you should not be discouraged if you do not find «your cat» online immediately; «Pets come into shelters and rescue groups every day.

If you have feral cats that can't come inside, at least try to lure them into a garage or a barn where they'll be sheltered from the winds and some of the cold.

She wants to be able to find a perfect match for each cat and each person who comes into our shelter.

That's the origin of Feral Freedom, the landmark effort in Jacksonville, Florida to send feral cats brought into the shelter back to where they came from (sterilized, vaccinated and ear - tipped).

If only one cat from a colony comes into your shelter, sterilizing and returning that cat isn't enough to make an impact on the population.

Feral Freedom is a public / private collaboration to save all the feral / free - roaming / community cats that come into the city's shelters.

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.

If a cat found outdoors comes into the shelter thin or sick, or is too young to take care of itself, then it is not doing well in its environment and is a candidate for veterinary care and adoption, not RTF.

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.

If it comes into the shelter the cat has only a 5 % chance of every getting reunited with its owner.

Jacob comes into the shelter weekly to spend quality time with the cats while they wait to find their forever homes.

Cat intake typically has a sinusoidal shape, following the ebb and flow that comes from the seasonal mating of intact cats, whose offspring flow into animal shelters.

With an approved application, seniors (over the age of 65) can come into the shelter and adopt an adult cat and have all adoption fees waived.

«Euthanizing all community feral cats does not reduce the cat population and instead just creates a vacuum effect in which more cats come into the colony and take the place of those felines that are gone,» said Aiken County Animal Shelter (ACAS) Manager Bobby Arthurs.

The brain - damaged owner was so upset when I came to collect those cats that had not yet been taken to the shelter (I picked those up later) that, even though he loved his cats, he lost control over his emotions and physically abused 2 of the cats, who they did not sit still to be grabbed and shoved into the pet carrier, in all the conundrum.

That night I saw on Facebook this sweet cat had been reunited with his previous owner, who came into the shelter that afternoon looking for him.

But there aren't many lifesaving options for a feral cat once they come into the shelter.

A very thin mother cat with baby kittens coming from that shelter were supposed to come into our rescue but due to the very poor condition of the cat and the babies she was offered to stay there at Pets Alive because of her condition and fear of the babies passing due to being anemic because of the overwhelming amount of fleas.

FOTAS is committed to reducing the number of unwanted dogs and cats in Aiken County and thus reduce the number of animals coming into our animal shelter through our spay and neuter Fix - A-Pet Program.

The director of the shelter begged me come get him, even taking him into the cat room to see if he reacted to the cats aggressively, and begged me to come get him as he was days away from being put down.

The problem also includes cities that do not participate in Trap / neuter / release programs and actually make it illegal for people to properly care for feral cat colonies (the only solution has proven to work) by using cat leash laws, licensing laws, abandonment laws or pet limit laws to make TNR illegal — and thus, leading cities to kill every feral cat that comes into their shelter.

But, what it means is that if you catch the cat and bring it into MADACC, for whatever reason, the family will likely never come to see if the cat is here (often they fear the cat has been killed by a car or wildlife and feel there is no reason to look) and that could result in the cat being euthanized due to health or temperament in the shelter.

«I'm proud, but not surprised, that so many organizations and community members have come together to help decrease the numbers of stray dogs and cats euthanized or put into shelters,» says Mayor Stanton.

Each year, 2.7 million adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States, simply because too many pets come into shelters and too few people consider adoption when looking for a pet.

In 2009, the municipal animal shelter in San Jose, CA, was seeing the number of cats coming into the facility increasing even though they had a longstanding low cost spay / neuter program.

The numbers don't lie — of the 368 feral cats that came into the shelter last year, 355 were euthanized.

Many dogs and cats that come into our shelters bring fleas and ticks into the kennels.

That's when they began sterilizing healthy feral cats who came into their shelter, and returning them to the locations where they'd been thriving.

But it wasn't until one of the inmates, McNaught, asked shelter director Betty Peyton if the prison could foster cats — «' cause I'm not a dog person,» he told her — that the feline set came into the picture.

«Sometimes people have been known to come into the shelter with a cat in mind but, once the counselor has met with them and discussed their environment, they have gone home with an entirely different cat,» said Samantha Shelton, executive director and founder Furkids pet rescue, Georgia's largest cage - free, no - kill cat shelter.

These are cats that have come into the shelter system with severe fractures but are otherwise adoptable, she explains.

Approximately 25 % of the dogs and cats that come into shelters are purebreds.

When Jane came into the Shelter, we sensed that she knew exactly what it would take to provide a loving home for a cat like Cheryl.

The generosity PetSmart Charities of Canada has empowered the BC SPCA to make significant strides in addressing cat overpopulation across the province, resulting in a dramatic decrease in the number of kittens coming into our shelters.

As a general rule the majority of all the cats and dogs that come to the shelter are adopted into good quality, lifelong homes.

Spaying and neutering means fewer stray cats and dogs coming into the shelter because they got out of the house trying to find a mate.

So when many of the program kittens started filtering back into the shelter along with an increased number of additional cats and kittens coming in through the usual channels, it was bursting at the seams.