Sentences with phrase «dogs entering the shelter as»

Multiple sessions continued to produce effects, and dogs entering the shelter as strays appeared more susceptible to stress than dogs released by their owners.

Not exact matches

Giving all the dogs new names the moment they enter her shelter, she works closely with a dog therapist to help these pooches, and local groups such as Alaskan Wild Women, Challenge Alaska, FOCUS, and Arctic Paws Yummy Chummies often chip in, helping her and her shelter whereever they can, whether it be donations of treats, food to vet services.

That misguided notion alone, leads to countless dogs entering animal shelters each year and resulting in large veterinary bills (as a result of eating household items when their owners are not home).

Unfortunately, some dogs are abused or are poorly trained, and as a result, have less desirable traits even before entering the shelter.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), a contract entered into pursuant to subsection (1) shall require the adopting person to leave with the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter, or a designee of the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter, a good faith deposit of at least $ 25.00 that indicates the person's intention to have the adopted dog, cat, or ferret altered within the time provided pursuant to subsection (2).

(8) A contract entered into pursuant to subsection (1) shall include a statement that if the terms of the contract are breached because a person adopting a dog, cat, or ferret fails to have the animal altered as required in the contract, then the person agrees to pay liquidated damages of the greater of $ 100.00 or actual reasonable costs incurred by the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter to enforce the contract.

52 % of dogs who enter a shelter with a microchip are successfully returned to their owners and Billy's story serves as an important reminder to microchip your pets.

To see more dogs available for adoption at the Georgetown Animal Shelter, go to www.petfinder.com, select «dog» and enter 78627 as the zip code.

Waco was euthanizing 64 % of the cats and dogs entering its shelters in 2013, and Huntsville 22 % as of late 2014.

Many dogs that enter the shelter come in as strays and therefore have an unknown history.

As recently as 2008, the shelter killed more than 60 % of the dogs and cats that entereAs recently as 2008, the shelter killed more than 60 % of the dogs and cats that entereas 2008, the shelter killed more than 60 % of the dogs and cats that entered.

«Unwanted gift» was listed as a reason for only 0.3 % of dogs and 0.4 % of cats entering the shelters surveyed, compared with «No time for pet» as a reason 10 % of dogs were relinquished and «allergies in family» as a reason 18 % of cats were relinquished.

As for some other points in your post, I will say this: Even if there were no pet overpopulation problems and millions were not entering shelters each year to be inhumanely killed by horrible methods, I would still have my dogs (and cats if I still had them) spayed and neutered.

The only answer that makes sense is that they oppose No Kill, they oppose lowering death rates at shelters as evidenced by their own PETA shelter in Virginia that has a 96 % death rate for all the dogs and cats that enter its doors!!

As many as 25 % of dogs entering shelters each year are purebredAs many as 25 % of dogs entering shelters each year are purebredas 25 % of dogs entering shelters each year are purebreds.

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.

Numbers are regularly tossed around like pennies into a fountain as to the quantity of dogs and cats entering US shelters each year.

The dogs, if not rescued, would ultimately face euthanasia as over 90 % of the animals that enter the shelter system in Puerto Rico do not make it back out.

As a large, adult dog, she was one of the millions of hard - to - adopt pets entering shelters around the country each year.

Cabral's argument parallels the inverse moral logic that we see in several other aspects of no - kill militancy ---- a whole different phenomenon from realizing no - kill as the goal of a great amount of sustained targeted sterilization, so that unwanted dogs and cats are no longer born, entering shelters in huge numbers.

While it is certainly not always the case, many dogs that enter the shelter system come from abusive or neglectful homes and they may have behavioral problems as a result.

As a result of this uncontrolled reproduction, over 8 million healthy or treatable dogs and cats enter U.S. shelters every year.

Approximately 15 million dogs and 9 million cats enter shelters throughout the United States each year as strays, according to the American Humane Association.

We define a community as being at «zero» if it demonstrates the ability to save 90 % or more of cats and dogs that enter its shelters.

In the late 1990's as the number of dogs entering public shelters decreased, local shelters started working together more cooperatively.

In less than two generations, these practices have produced astounding results: we are caring for more than twice as many dogs today as in the 1970's, yet the number of dogs entering shelters in most parts of the country is just a fraction of what it was 40 years ago.

In her first few years as Director of Animal Services at WCRAS, she strategized and began implementing programs focused on making sure the homeless cats and dogs that entered her shelter would make it out alive.

L.A. Love & Leashes is helping to save lives by finding homes for as many as possible of the tens of thousands of dogs and cats who enter our city shelters each year.

Each of those dogs that are living on the streets, entering shelters, or being put to sleep due to a lack of good homes started out as the cute puppy that everyone thinks is so sweet and adorable and ««easy to find homes for.

As the vast, vast majority of all dogs who enter the Zoom Room were rescued from shelters or thanks to the diligent efforts of great rescue groups, we have tailored our dog training offerings to expressly embrace these wonderful animals and the often less - than - ideal life they lived prior to finding their new, loving homes.

With large numbers of imported dogs from rabies endemic areas entering the US pet trade, weak federal import laws, and state and local laws that specifically exempt the traffickers from regulation because they are supposed to be operating as humane shelters, the public Is vulnerable to this irresponsible activity.

Buying pets promotes the breeding of even more dogs and cats — sometimes under cruel and painful conditions, such as found in puppy mills — at a time when nearly 29,000 homeless pets enter our city shelters each year.

In 2015, we helped to prevent many unwanted litters of cats, dogs, and rabbits; as a result, we reduced the number of homeless pets entering local shelters, as well as the number of feral cats residing in our neighborhoods.

But as the volume of pit bulls entering animal shelters rose from about 5 % of the incoming dogs to upward of 30 %, pit bulls conspicuously often flunked the Assess - A-Pet test.

This course will address these and other issues such as pet surplus - animals entering shelters and those euthanized in shelters; the «no - kill» movement; reasons for relinquishment to shelters; recognition and documentation of animal abuse; dog fighting, and the role of the veterinarian in the recognition and reporting of these activities.