Sentences with phrase «dog shelter while»

Her interest in animal welfare and veterinary medicine began in 2008 when she began volunteering at the local dog shelter while attending University of California, Santa Barbara.

Not exact matches

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and while most people think of candy, cards, flowers and dinners out, Bellamy Young thinks about the dogs and cats that are in your local shelter, waiting to find their furever family and home.

Which is why childfree dating can be tricky to balance while you're out surfing, knitting, wine tasting, writing a novel, and volunteering at the local dog shelter.

While dogs and cats make up the majority in U.S. animal shelters, a smaller number of abandoned birds, rabbits and small animals also need homes.

Pets for Patriots helps United States military veterans adopt a new pet friend while giving the most overlooked shelter dogs and cats hope and a home.

Grieving and isolated while sitting in a darkened room, he confided to McNac how he missed his little dog, worried about Stretch, was angry that the family took him away and afraid the relative might have taken Stretch to a shelter.

While shelter dogs may no longer have to worry about the elements or the hazards of our urban jungle, they face a different set of problems in their temporary home.

Conversely, SB 1204 would have encouraged localities to pass pet sale bans even while creating a regulatory structure that all but eliminated a pet store's ability to source dogs from shelters.

While shelter law enforcement entities do rescue some dogs (American Pit Bull Terriers and other breeds alike) from bad situations, they tend to be the exception, not the rule for animal intake.

Reasons to adopt Some shelter dogs come from the streets, while others were surrendered by owners who can not — or no longer want to — care for them.

While it may not be easy — since the shelter runs on donations and proceeds from selling her own art — Vinter always put the dogs first, even ensuring they never go hungry even if it means she and her husband must skip a few meals.

Sadly, animals do not get into crisis only where it is convenient and, essentially, an unwanted animal on one side of a street may enter a shelter, while across the road, outside of city limits, the dog's fate is luck of the draw; many are abandoned to starve.

The plain fact is, while dogs from other shelters will be enjoying a forever home in their destination city, our Tulsa shelter dogs have missed out again.

Many shelters euthanize or restrict adoptions for dogs that exhibit food guarding while in the animal shelter.

While puppies are cuddly, and many grow up to become wonderful companions, prospective pet owners sometimes forget the trouble involved with raising a canine from infancy, and they overlook the countless mature dogs awaiting adoption from shelters and rescue organizations.

While only 13 dogs tested positive for either disease, shelter staff reduced services as an extra precaution to prevent these diseases from spreading into the community.

The SPCA Serving Erie County is fortunate to find new homes for around 8,000 dogs and cats each year and this new partnership with FOTAS and Aiken County has the potential to help hundreds of dogs and cats find their forever homes, while helping to ease the overcrowding of the county shelter.

While October is dedicated as National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, help is needed all year for the millions of dogs that remain in our shelters.

Some shelters train their dogs a lot, while others only have capacity to house and feed them.

Foster dog volunteers prepare dogs for home life while freeing up space in shelters and rescues.

They see dog breeding as an unhealthy exercise in genetic engineering and say it's insensitive to breed dogs while others languish in shelters.

Some people adopt rescued dogs from shelters, while other purchase dogs directly from a breeder.

While the act of not killing any adoptable dogs and cats in a shelter is the end goal, it should not only be done through limited admittance.

The Public Information Officer for the Liberty County Sheriff's Office stated, «Several of the dogs were found outside in wet and muddy pens with no cover or shelter of any kind while at least six cats were found in carriers in a dark building.

◊ If you are asked to leave your home and can take your animals with you but you do not have a place to take your animals (relative, friends, neighbors, boarding kennel etc.) you may contact: CCADT at 559 -433-WOOF (9663) and ask for assistance in sheltering / caring for your domestic dogs, cats and domestic small animals while you are displaced from your home during an evacuation.

You can contact the Mariposa SPCA at 209-966-5275 and ask for assistance in sheltering / caring for your domestic dogs, cats and domestic small animals while you are displaced from your home during an evacuation.

In addition, a volunteer might be asked to perform a temperment test on an ACD while at the shelter to provide more information to potential foster homes about the dog's personality, needs and adoptability.

While the primary focus of the American Pit Bull Registry (APBR) is to register pure bred Pit Bulls, we are a comprehensive resource for the Pit Bull dog breed, owners, rescues, shelters and those wishing to learn more about the American Pit Bull Terrier dog breed and its unique history.

The shelter is full of sweet, beautiful dogs and cats, now getting the proper medical care, feeding, neutering, spaying, etc., while preparing them for possible adoption to forever homes.

Irregardless of the future consequences, the dog should be taken into the shelter, cared for, and unless it displayed a vicious temperament while in the shelter, it should be spayed or neutered, and then allowed to be adopted.

She attended the University of Georgia, where she began honing her training skills while helping improve the behavior of local shelter dogs to reduce euthanasia rates.

While only 22 % of lost dogs entering a shelter were returned to their families, that percentage went up to 52 % for lost dogs who were microchipped.

While choosing a dog for your family, never forget mutts and possibly going to shelter in order to find a beautiful animal in need of a home.

While most people believe that shelters are full because of over population, behavior problems are the most common reason owners give up their dogs.

While most shelters even then did not supply animals to laboratories, the five - day holding interval became the default standard for weaned dogs and cats throughout the U.S., except for those deemed to be incurably ill or injured and suffering, or too dangerous to keep safely.

While the focus remains on saving dogs from California's high - intake shelters, some of the dogs come into rescue as owner surrenders or homeless strays.

While group interaction may seem like an obvious way to enhance a dog's quality of life while kenneled, social isolation is still the norm at most shelters across the couWhile group interaction may seem like an obvious way to enhance a dog's quality of life while kenneled, social isolation is still the norm at most shelters across the couwhile kenneled, social isolation is still the norm at most shelters across the country.

While we may not know what a dog's actual breed is in some cases, having a sense of the type and level of risk can be very useful in developing strategies and solutions — inside and outside of the shelter walls.

Animal advocates point out that, while every bit as wonderful as other dogs, black dogs have the hardest time getting adopted from shelters.

While you can usually find many shepherd mixes if you visit your local shelter, German Shepherds are not usually one of the breeds popular as a cross for hybrid dogs.

A family visits a shelter to re-adopt their dog who died while under the care of a boarding facility.

«While we may not always know what a dog's actual breed is, having a sense of the type and level of risk can be very useful in developing strategies and solutions — inside and outside of the shelter walls.»

The fact is that this is a human caused problem and it's sad just like the overabundance of cats and dogs in this country which cause 10 million of them to be killed each year in shelters while people still breed more (ignorance).

While some community animal shelters are busting at the seams with homeless pets, other communities have shelters with a waiting list of folks who are anxious to adopt a dog or cat and provide them with a loving forever home.

While the ban is suspended indefinitely, pit bull owners are free to walk their dogs un-muzzled, they are free to play in off - leash parks, and, best of all, the dogs currently in shelters and rescue are free to be adopted into loving homes.

This means more humane animal sheltering and this means the dogs have a better chance for adoption since they appear to the public (because they are) more relaxed, happy, and calm while waiting for a chance to be adopted.

While doing this, you should also research shelter dogs and the hurdles that you may face by adopting one.

While almost 4 million dogs are entering animal shelters each year, only 30 % are euthanized [5].

While the MPP focuses on both cats and dogs, the issue of lost pets is particularly relevant to cats, given their low reclaim rates in shelters; high euthanasia rates; decreased likelihood of having collars, tags or microchips; and propensity to hide when frightened.

Again, while this name may seem overly used it is still one of the more popular pet names particularly for male dogs who have escaped some type of unfortunate situation such as life in an animal shelter or a car accident or amputation.