Sentences with phrase «entering public shelters»

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

Not exact matches

This breaks the cycle before an unwanted litter enters a shelter as a public expense.

Best Friends has done such an amazing job in spreading the word about adopting shelter animals as opposed to supporting breeders and pet stores, and educating the public on the importance of spaying / neutering your pets so that no more «unwanted» furbabies enter this world.

Sales, promotion and marketing strategies can move the dial to some degree on shaping the public's pet preference, but with a publicly funded spay / neuter program, there is complete control over to whom and how you target the resource in order to affect the number, sources and even types of animals entering the shelter to begin with.

Even in forward - thinking cities like Austin, animals entering the sheltering system can end up dead when their situation, through no fault of their own, places them in conflict with competing and worthy interests like public safety.

And in a continuation of our longstanding commitment to shelter medicine, Maddie's Fund recently launched our Shelter Medicine Changes Everything campaign, designed to inform the public about the lifesaving contribution of shelter veterinarians, inspire veterinary students to enter the field, help university programs and donors to more clearly understand the important role shelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinshelter medicine, Maddie's Fund recently launched our Shelter Medicine Changes Everything campaign, designed to inform the public about the lifesaving contribution of shelter veterinarians, inspire veterinary students to enter the field, help university programs and donors to more clearly understand the important role shelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinShelter Medicine Changes Everything campaign, designed to inform the public about the lifesaving contribution of shelter veterinarians, inspire veterinary students to enter the field, help university programs and donors to more clearly understand the important role shelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinshelter veterinarians, inspire veterinary students to enter the field, help university programs and donors to more clearly understand the important role shelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinshelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinshelter directors to hire staff veterinarians.

When the Feral Freedom program was introduced in 2008, it was the first public - private collaboration in the nation to save all feral, stray and community cats that entered the city's shelters.

In 2011, Best Friends entered into a groundbreaking public - private partnership with the city of Los Angeles to operate one of the L.A. Animal Services city shelters as the Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay / Neuter Center.

The bill also would require shelters to keep, and make public, records of all animals who enter and leave their facilities.

C. Shelters must provide public notice, appropriate to the community, of stray animals entering the shelter.

It was the first public - private collaboration in the nation that aimed to save all the community cats who entered the city's shelters.

There's not an animal shelter around — public or private — that isn't entering 2010 overloaded, overworked and overwhelmed.

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 allows for the reasonable likelihood that about 10 percent of animals entering a given shelter system will either be irremediably suffering due to injury, illness or age, and euthanasia to end that suffering will be deemed appropriate and humane, or will be too demonstrably or historically aggressive to be responsibly adopted to a member of the public.

It takes on average 90 days to fully treat a heartworm positive dog for heartworms and 75 % of the adult dogs entering the shelter test positive because the general public does not protect their animals from this disease with monthly preventative.)

To achieve its mission of elevating Montgomery County to a No - Kill Community, the group promotes programs that not only inform the public but also help reduce the number of companion animals entering shelters and to increase the number of furry friends leaving shelters alive.

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.

The LifeLine Community Animal Center will ensure that Atlanta can maintain its status as a no - kill community — keeping more animals from being surrendered to public shelters in the first place, and allowing every adoptable animal that does enter the shelter to find a new forever home.

The majority of the dogs that enter our program come to us from public animal control facilities («dog pounds»), and animal shelters.

Please note that the animal shelter is closed to the public during this time, and you will not be able to enter the building any earlier than 10:45 am — but you are welcome to walk around the property and take a look at our farm animals if you would like to arrive early!

Based in North San Diego County, LYFF educates the public on spaying / neutering and the process of trap / neuter / return (TNR) to reduce the number of feral cats and kittens entering the shelters.

We focus on educating the public on spaying / neutering and the process of TNR to reduce the number of feral cats and kittens entering shelters.

(c) Public animal control agencies or shelters, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelters, humane society shelters, and rescue groups may enter into cooperative agreements with each other and with veterinarians in lieu of requiring spaying and neutering deposits to carry out this section.

According to a 1996 study from the Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy, about four million dogs enter US animal shelters each year.

(e) Public animal control agencies or shelters, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelters, humane society shelters, and rescue groups may enter into cooperative agreements with each other and with veterinarians in lieu of requiring spaying and neutering deposits to carry out this section.

The public or private shelter may enter into cooperative agreements with any animal rescue or adoption organization.