Sentences with phrase «community animal populations»

Priority will be given to questions regarding care of animals in shelters, rescues, or foster care as well as shelter or community animal populations.

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Boosting these fish populations offers not only much - needed animal protein for the local community but also an unprecedented source of income.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

The restored forest allows plant and animal species to thrive, migrate, and re-establish populations in the new forest blocks, extending the benefits of forest and ecosystem service restoration to neighboring communities and beyond.

The feral cat population represents a unique challenge to the animal welfare community because most shelters and rescue groups seek to find homes for every homeless animal.

All of Tulsa's volunteers deserve recognition for what they do for our community's animal population.

This promotion encourages the community to strengthen the work of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populAnimal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populanimal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray population.

So instead of implementing HONEST reforms that help reduce pet populations in communities and programs that HONESTLY rehome animals surrendered to shelters or picked up as strays, they instead focus on these quick fixes just to get rid of the animals, rather than finding good, loving homes for the animals.

Our focus on the importance of microchip ID's spay and neuter awareness is one of the ways we hope to reduce the population of homeless and stray animals in our community.

We work with local animal rescues to help with the pet population and to do our part to give back to the community.

One of the reasons she began breeding was to contribute healthy and well - socialized animals to the community by introducing lineage (pedigree) into the pet population.

I felt drawn to the specialty because it offered help to one of the most vulnerable animal populations; it combined my interests of working towards the greater good in the community and public health; and it was profession where I felt like I could make a difference improving the lives of un-homed animals every day.

High - risk animals include dogs and cats less than six months old, bully breeds of dogs (as these breeds account for a significant portion of the intake population at Young - Williams) and «community» or feral cats.

TAILS is a website and print magazine committed to connecting the animal welfare community with the general pet - loving population.

In operation since 1974 and founded to help solve the growing problem of stray animals in the community, the organization advocates for spay / neuter as a humane and effective way to reduce the population of unwanted animals.

Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!

It effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies so they can focus on life - saving work such as adoptions, which also saves taxpayer dollars in the process.

If a community needs minimal animal control services due to a small population of animals, local governments may employ an animal control officer and contract with a private operator, like a local veterinary clinic, to provide other services.

Showing local officials that people want a humane approach to animal control — and that TNR is the best way to stabilize community cat populations — can eventually lead them to officially embrace the new model.

The PALS (Prevent Another Litter Subsidy) program is offered by the Edmonton Humane Society (EHS) to reduce our community's homeless pet population by assisting people who do not have the financial ability to spay or neuter their animals.

The Montgomery County Community Cat Coalition is a new initiative organized by the Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center (MCASAC) to help to support, encourage, and carry out spay & neuter and vaccinations for cats through Trap - Neuter - Return to protect and stabilize cat populations.

The organization has also been teaching the community how TNR for community cats is good public policy, as it effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies, saving taxpayer dollars in the process.

TNR humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, reduces calls of concern to animal control

Alley Cat Allies encourages communities to reject cruel, punitive, and ineffective ordinances and instead to embrace humane programs that really work to stabilize the population and keep cats out of animal shelters, including Trap - Neuter - Return for feral cats and subsidize and low - cost spay / neuter for all cats.

The Alberta Spay / Neuter Task Force: A Community - Based Solution for Managing Companion Animal Populations

The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of limited animal shelter budgets.

Reaching that threshold will dramatically decrease the population of community cats and, in turn, reduce the number of cats that end up at the county's animal shelter.

As a national animal welfare organization committed to humanely reducing the population of community cats through TNR, Best Friends has already reached out to WGA, encouraging them to remove cats from their list of invasive species.

Progressive communities across America are evolving from the antiquated philosophy of controlling the unwanted animal population by euthanasia, shifting toward ensuring the welfare of all animals by educating citizens regarding animal welfare, responsible pet ownership and encouraging rescue opportunities for all adoptable animals.

She changed the landscape of the animal welfare community of Santa Clara County by championing feral cats, and promoting the humane Trap / Neuter / Return method to control their populations.

We rely on our members to help us provide warm shelter, veterinary services and personal attention to all the animals in our care, in addition to offering proactive programs to the community that helps control the pet population.

Animal Care Expo is an annual conference bringing together professionals and newbies from around the globe to learn new skills and strategies to find pets homes, keep pets in homes, engage communities, humanely manage community cat populations, and more.

We focus on reaching pets in low - income and underserved communities, prioritizing aid for those animals at highest risk in local shelters, and supporting efforts to control feral cat populations.

Many are animal lovers who prefer humane solutions, and champion TNR as an effective alternative for addressing community cat population problems.

This puts them at the top of the food chain, where they play an important ecological role by regulating prey populations and structuring animal communities.

Your support of the Shelter helps fund community based efforts to control the stray animal population humanely.

Behaviorists can also work closely with communities who have a large population of wild animals.

The Animal Hospital of Signal Mountain is located 10 miles outside of Chattanooga (population 171,279) at the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau in the town of Signal Mountain, a close - knit and intimate family community.

In animal shelters, of greatest concern is keeping pets from contracting diseases while in the shelter, or introducing them to the existing shelter population on intake, or bringing infectious disease out into the community.

Last but not least, you, the Aiken community, who year after year have supported our efforts with enthusiasm and generosity, who have adopted your pets from the thousands of deserving animals who end up in the Shelter through no fault of their own, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be prouder.

Because we believe strongly that adoptions from rescue organizations and shelters are a benefit to our community and to the local homeless animal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proanimal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proAnimal Care and Control and its affiliated programs.

The Humane Society educates the community on responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals, advocates for spaying / neutering to reduce the homeless pet population and provides the best quality care to Brevard County's abandoned animals by placing them with responsible, caring owners in «furever» homes.

AHS has partnered with the Animal Defense League of Arizona and other community partners to develop an expanded TNR program to help reduce outdoor cat populations in the Valley.

This study documents the positive impacts publically subsidized low - cost spay and neuter programs can have that often go unmet in communities: pet population control, leading to the prevention of the proliferation of feral dog and cat populations, slowing the flow of animals into shelters both voluntarily and through field services, and reduction in the incidence of humane destruction of animals.

Historically, large numbers of healthy animals, including community cats, have been destroyed by animal protection agencies for population control as well as to prevent the possibility of potential suffering at some time in the future.

H.E.L.P. is committed to educating the community on improving the lives of pets, and reducing the stray and abandoned domestic animal population as well as to promote spay / neuter programs.

Through BARC's Healthy Pets Healthy Streets initiative, BARC partners with local spay / neuter providers such as Emancipet, Friends For Life, Spay - Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Humane Society to educate the community on the importance of spay / neuter and to provide free spay / neuter surgeries in targeted neighborhoods with the largest stray animal populations.

As the very first shelter in Chicago to not only rescue, but successfully integrate FIV + cats into our general population, Felines & Canines (under the leadership of Executive Director, Abby Smith) has broken barriers and made monumental steps towards changing the way the animal welfare community views the stigma of FIV.

Last but not least, you, the Aiken community, who have supported our efforts with enthusiasm and generosity, adopted your pets from the thousands of deserving animals who end up in the Shelter, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be prouder.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and