Sentences with phrase «euthanasia rate from»

Together with our Maddie's Fund Community Partners, we work closely with Alachua County's municipal public intake shelter, Alachua County Animal Services to reduce the euthanasia rate from over 7,000 per year to under 1,000.

Working together with PSPCA since 2005, Pets Come First has assisted the shelter in decreasing the euthanasia rate from 87 % to 0 %.

The goal is to reduce the countywide euthanasia rate from 64 percent to 10 percent or less.

Not exact matches

Some longtime animal welfare professionals can remember the days of tiny cinderblock shelters hidden away from the community, bare concrete kennels and unthinkable euthanasia rates.

The Rescue Waggin» is a program which transfers dogs from areas with excessive euthanasia rates to areas where the dogs have a much greater chance of being adopted.

According to an article by Asiaone, euthanasia rates have been decreasing — from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, a total of 963 animals were put to sleep at the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), down from 1,068 the previous year — but these high numbers still prove that overpopulation is a glaring issue, and more can be done to educate everyone about it.

Dogs we bring in from high - euthanasia rate shelters often have heartworm disease.

We also try to help minimize euthanasia rate of healthy, adoptable dogs by rescuing them from high kill facilities.

Every day, hundreds of animals are taken in trucks, vans and cars from overcrowded Southern shelters where euthanasia rates sometimes reach 70 percent to states in the North, where puppies and kittens are not as plentiful.

Many shelters report that over half their adoptions come from Petfinder and that their euthanasia rates have dropped substantially since they began using the site.

Since then, the euthanasia rate for shelter animals in the City has dropped dramatically, from 74 % in 2002 to 33 % in 2009.

In this Friday, March 4, 2011 photo, dogs fill a kennel at the Lenoir County Animal Shelter in Kinston, N.C. Animals routinely go from overloaded Southern shelters like this where euthanasia rates sometimes reach 70 percent to the puppy and kitten - starved states of the North.

Janelle Holden: The euthanasia rate has decreased from 36 % of animals available for adoption in 1990 to less than.75 % of animals available for adoption in 2017 and is now limited to terminally ill animals or severe aggression.

The majority of our dogs and cats come from animal control facilities (aka «the pound») with high euthanasia rates.

One state interested in Houston's pet surplus, Perini and Carlock said, is New Hampshire, where a landmark 1994 law gave the state the lowest euthanasia rate in the nation, thanks to a state - subsidized spay / neuter program for pets of owners on public assistance and for animals adopted from shelters.

Kerry had rescued one puppy at a time from a shelter in Lake County that had a high euthanasia rate and no rescue organizations to assist them.

With FCRC, Felines & Canines will be able to pull animals from facilities with high euthanasia rates and get them cared for and ready for transport to receiving rescues (their Chicago shelter included).

The impetus for this primarily has been population control and a desire to reduce rates of euthanasia for unwanted dogs and cats resulting from unintended breeding.

... The euthanasia rate at the Jefferson County Animal Shelter has dropped significantly going from 74 % to just 3 %!

He is from a rural animal control with a high euthanasia rate and had a congenitally defective eye that was causing him discomfort and needed to be removed.

Since its inception in 2002, the Alliance's collaborative efforts have reduced the euthanasia rate in New York City from 74 percent in 2002 to 39 percent in 2008.

Over the past 9 years, Carson Cats has rescued over 11,000 animals from the Los Angeles County Shelter System which has one of the highest euthanasia rates in the country.

Young at Heart rescues 100 % of our senior pets from open - door shelters, reducing the euthanasia rate for adoptable senior pets at area shelters.

According to Raul Contreras from the Mayor's Office, in 2015 the euthanasia rates plummeted — down 36 percent for dogs and 25 percent for cats compared to the previous year — with adoption rates rising by 17 percent.

The organization founded and operated Spay & Save, a program credited with dramatically reducing euthanasia of shelter animals and improving live release rates from area shelters.

Due to efforts by AnimalSave and other local animal welfare groups over the years, the euthanasia rate at the local shelter has dropped from 70 percent to 2 percent.

We want to save as many lives as we can, so we move animals from areas where the euthanasia rate is very high to areas where the demand for those animals is much greater.

That was the message from two representatives of Target Zero, an animal welfare group that works with shelters around the country to lower euthanasia rates.

The Washington County / Johnson City Animal Shelter celebrated its lowest euthanasia rates ever last year, but a few glaring numbers in the animal reports keep the shelter from no - kill status.

SNP LA has spayed and neutered over 150,000 cats and dogs — preventing millions of pets from being born into homelessness and helping to cut the euthanasia rate in half at L.A. city shelters.

A grant from the Joanie Bernard Foundation has been helping Northern Kentucky animal shelters reduce the euthanasia rate of cats through a regional spay / neuter program.

By 1994, Deb and Kerry's home - based, part - time rescue efforts had evolved into a full - time, successful collaboration where dogs were rescued from Lake County (plus other shelters with high euthanasia rates), given veterinary care and spayed or neutered, and then adopted out to qualified homes.

The CanINE Express Transport Project humanely transports shelter dogs from south central Indiana — areas with extreme pet overpopulation and high euthanasia rates due to kennel overcrowding — to shelters in areas in our country where there is a need for well - socialized, healthy dogs.

Based on communities that have transitioned from a high - kill to a no - kill community, below are the identified necessary components to impact outcomes to lower euthanasia rates.

Lucy Ling was adopted on March 5, 1999 at the age of 7 months from a mid-Michigan shelter that practiced pound seizure and had a high euthanasia rate.

Finally, I happen to know from participating with a Maryland - based animal advocacy group that the euthanasia rates in Maryland shelters are unnecessarily high.

So far, they have removed around 30 dogs from city shelters, all of them with high rates of euthanasia.

100 % of the animals we rescue come from open - admission shelters with high euthanasia rates for older animals.

She had been researching puppy mills, and as she looked at Chicago's euthanasia rates and the sales figures from pet stores, she realized that she had to take action.

The premise of their attack is based on the belief that pet stores are responsible for (1) local pet overpopulation, (2) increased population at shelters, (3) the high shelter euthanasia rates and (4) the sale of sick dogs from «puppy mills» to unsuspected consumers.

Rescued from the euthanasia list from a kill shelter in Manhattan, despite being only a year old and having a perfect behavior rating.

According to San Bernardino County spokesperson Doug Wert, pit bull admissions to the San Bernardino County animal shelter have dropped from 2,066 with a 77 % euthanasia rate in fiscal year 2009 - 2010, just before the ordinance was passed, to 1,037 with a 31 % euthanasia rate in fiscal year 2014 - 2015.

This morning, The Washington Post published my article about a new study from Mississippi State University showing that shelter euthanasia rates for dogs have dipped to the lowest level in modern history, with fewer than 780,000 dogs per year now dying in U.S. shelters.

The non-profit organization Found Animals does a wonderful job of fostering awareness, and aims to reduce the euthanasia rate of pets in animal shelters by taking them from shelters and adopting them out to loving pet parents.

«To help reduce the population at the now overcrowded shelter and avoid the euthanasia of adoptable animals, the county is offering dogs and cats at a drastically reduced rate of $ 10, down from $ 50 and $ 40 respectively,» said Brian Sheahan, director of Lake County's Community Safety & Compliance Department, in the release.

Kansas Humane Society Highlights from 2016: Total animals in our care - 15,660 Live animal intake - 11,918 Live animal outcomes - 10,330 Euthanasia - 1,588 which is down 554 from last year Increased Save Rate from 83 % to 87 % Performed a total of 8,651 Spay / Neuter surgeries to help reduce overpopulation (2,843 of those were donor - subsidized for low - income familes) The Youth Education Program reached 14,311 children in our community

Oklahoma suffers from even worse euthanasia rates due to our severe pet overpopulation problem.

Shelters that are currently experiencing a high stray kitten intake and, as a result, have a high euthanasia rate for kittens — especially those with URI — will benefit from the Foster to Surrender program.

The euthanasia rate dropped to 4 percent, down from 16.

Pet Zone saves dogs from euthanasia from animal control facilities in Walton and surrounding counties (this area of Georgia has an 85 % euthanasia rate).