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.
Not exact matches
With ad campaigns and other encouragements, we can, perhaps, increase the number of cats and
dogs entering and leaving
through the revolving door of our local animal
shelters, but spay / neuter programs, not adoption, prevent the overwhelming number of excess pets from needing homes,
entering shelters or becoming victims, no matter where on the timeline they are counted.
Love - A-Bull continues to assist Furever Friends and Rescue and the pit bull type
dogs of Childress
through rescue and by funding the spay / neuter, vaccination and microchipping of
dogs prior to placement or adoption, as well as assisting with the spay and neuter of
dogs prior to them
entering into the
shelter system.
Through our four main programs; Low - Cost Spay / Neuter, Low - Income Pet Food Assistance, Foster / Adoption, Feral Cat Trap / Neuter / Return and our Humane Education and Re-Homing Assistance programs, we believe we are delivering an important public service that prevents
dogs and cats from becoming homeless and
entering the very costly
shelter system.
This work was in addition to the 317 cats and
dogs who we've assisted in the first three months of 2016, preventing them from
entering the South Los Angeles Animal
Shelter through our
Shelter Intervention Program.
Adoptions
through special programs, including the Home 4 the Holidays program sponsored by the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, California, have actually declined lately ---- but because far fewer cats and
dogs are
entering shelters than 10, 20, and 30 years ago, many cats and
dogs who previously would have had no chance to be rehomed are now receiving the remedial and promotional help they need to be adopted.