Sentences with phrase «entering shelters»
There will always be more animals than there are homes until there is a reduction in the TOTAL UNIVERSE of animals needing homes — not just the number of animals entering shelters — and TOTAL supply balances total demand.
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«These free and low - cost services will have a significant impact on reducing the number of homeless pets entering shelters or being abandoned on the street.»
Schultz adds that only half of all dogs entering shelters have received the core vaccines.
Shelters, which offer food, warmth, and medical attention, care very much about these animals, but the volume of pets entering shelters greatly outnumbers the families looking to adopt.
With over 6.5 million animals entering shelters every year, shelters and rescues are already struggling to help every pet find the home they deserve.
«If we don't know more about the nature of animals entering shelters — why they are entering shelters and why they are or are not leaving alive — how can we expect to solve the problem?»
Under LifeLine's leadership, both shelters are within a few percentage points of the no - kill threshold, defined as saving 90 % or more of the animals entering the shelters.
Preventing these dogs and cats from entering our shelters takes a different set of tools than the tools we use to keep lost pets from entering our shelters (ID tags, educating the community about search methods, etc.).
Meanwhile, there's a huge overpopulation of dogs in the US, with 3.9 Million of them entering shelters each year.
No Kill Nation and Day are currently working with Miami - Dade Animal Services and Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Center to implement No Kill solutions, which will save upwards of 90 % of the cats and dogs entering their shelters.
When there are an estimated 8 million pets entering shelters each year, there is a problem, no matter what you call it and saying that S / N will simply render pets extinct is a gross exaggeration, that is not about to happen in my lifetime or yours.
In this study, researchers looked at false test results in dogs entering shelters in the United States, covering areas in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, New York, Colorado, and California.
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.
Wide - scale spay and neuter is the only way to reduce the number of animals entering shelters.
With about 7.5 million companion animals entering shelters across the country each year, it's critical we focus on making preventive services accessible and available for families — including pets — who need them most.
The goal of our nonprofit is to prevent unplanned litters and eliminate the excess of cats entering shelters and ultimately being euthanized.
The coalition also undertook intensive targeted spay / neuter projects that focused on geographic areas responsible for high numbers of pets entering the shelters.
By participating in one or more of our low - cost programs, you and your employees can save lives by reducing the number of animals entering our shelters.
Best Friends works locally in cities such as Atlanta, New York, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles to reduce the rate of animals entering shelters.
We offer free service to low income, under - served areas where data proves the majority of animals entering our shelters come from.
The Protect Pet Choice Alliance also commissioned Mississippi State University to conduct a nationwide study of shelters to gain information on how many dogs are entering shelters and what happens to them after they do.
«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 a result of these programs, the groups saw 29 % fewer cats entering their shelters.
The goal of this program is to reduce the number of Pit Bulls entering shelters, while also reducing the number euthanized.
Our Pack's mission is to keep dogs from entering shelters in the first place, by providing free spay / neuter, education, training, post adoption support, rescue, and facilitating the lifelong bond between dogs and their people.
More cats entering shelters as a result of trapping feral adults and kittens young enough to be socialized (tamed).
The survey revealed that the vast majority of people significantly underestimate the number of pets entering shelters.
Best Friends provides resources to help network partners assess community needs and implement effective programs to promote adoption and spay / neuter and to prevent pets from entering shelters in the first place.
Less than 2 % of cats entering shelters were reunited with their owners, and only 53 % of lost cats were ever found.
Waco was euthanizing 64 % of the cats and dogs entering its shelters in 2013, and Huntsville 22 % as of late 2014.
Preventing unwanted litters limits the number of animals entering shelters each year.
Animals entering shelters after being rescued from life in a puppy mill or hoarding environment may be afflicted with numerous physical and psychological health problems at varying levels of severity.
Our goal is to keep families together and prevent animals from entering shelters.
A number of national organizations, like the ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society, have worked hard to estimate the number of animals entering shelters.
«Until more people spay and neuter their pets and we reduce the number of animals entering shelters, the Rescue Waggin» program will continue to be a resource for shelters working to change the fate of homeless dogs in their communities,» said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of PetSmart Charities, Inc..
Humane Canada gathers data on the number of animals entering shelters and the numbers adopted, returned to their owners or euthanized.
An estimated 25 % of all dogs entering shelters are purebred dogs that originate from puppy mills, which puts a strain on community resources and contributes to the tragic 4 million + homeless pets euthanized annually.
About half of all animals entering shelters across America are euthanized.
We pledge to work individually and together to save lives through rescue, adoption, and foster care; to reduce the number of animals entering shelters; and, to provide pet owners with the services they need to keep their pets healthy and in their homes.
Most animals entering shelters didn't leave them alive.
About half of all animals entering shelters (that are not no - kill) are euthanized.
Reactive programs are those that work to save the animals once they have reached the shelters, and include adoption programs, foster homes, working with placement partners, and programs like Feral Freedom, which may be the single most effective program for saving the lives of community cats entering our shelters, who would typically die without this type of intervention.
About half of all animals entering shelters are euthanized — it's time to stop the cycle.
(trap - neuter - vaccinate - return) programs, like local partner MEOW Now, work to provide vaccines for community cat populations and to reduce the number cats entering shelters by spaying and neutering community cats.
Sending the cats to a shelter almost always means a death sentence, as nationally, seven out of 10 cats entering shelters - and almost all feral cats - are killed there.
Tampa animal services» intake numbers show a 47 - percent decline in cats entering shelters — 9,000 fewer cats each year — since the groups started their work.
With millions of dogs and cats entering shelters each year, there's really no reason to be breeding more dogs or cats at all.
«6 to 8 million — Number of cats and dogs entering shelters each year» — Humane Society of the United States.
This practice is widely accepted and acknowledged as a viable means to provide lifesaving protection to animals entering shelters.
The constant that emerged was a relative difference over time between the number of animals entering shelters and the number being returned to their owner or adopted.