Sentences with phrase «euthanize aggressive animals»

We also euthanize aggressive animals that are determined to be a potential threat to the community and those sick or injured animals that are we can not rehabilitate given our resource limitations.

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Despite aggressive treatment with intravenous fluids and antibiotics, the animal developed severe respiratory distress and was humanely euthanized 5 days later.

Aggressive spay / neuter programs could cut the number of animals euthanized by half in less than five years.

Animals who are aggressive to the point of posing a serious threat to humans may also be euthanized.

We evaluate each animal and take into consideration the animal's age, temperament, behavior and health in order to determine which animals will be made available for adoption, transferred to another organization or should be euthanized because it is too sick / injured or aggressive.

Like open - admission animal shelters across the country, PETA performs the heartbreaking task of euthanizing animals who are unwanted for one reason or another: because they are aggressive, sick, hurt, elderly, or at death's door and because no good homes exist for them.

Proponents of gassing say it is necessary for aggressive, diseased or distressed animals, but obviously most shelters euthanize them without CO gas.Â

«71 % said this statement came closest to their view, «Animal shelters should only be allowed to euthanize animals when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted.

On January 1, 2013, the SPCA of Brazoria County instituted a «No Kill» policy, meaning that they would only euthanize a pet animal if it was too ill or injured to be humanely treated or too aggressive to place it back out into the public.

The 192 animals that were deemed unadoptable were euthanized for the following reasons: 148 were unresponsive to treatment or had a life - threatening illness that would reduce their quality of life significantly; 34 were considered aggressive; and 6 were wildlife animals.

Dogs, cats, puppies and kittens who are not adopted most often live terrible, short lives in shelter kennels, or are often euthanized because they become scared, unhappy and aggressive living in the shelter — and there is simply no more space for them as more animals are brought in.

PAC only euthanizes animals when they are suffering from an incurable disease or their behavior is too aggressive to allow adoption, keeping that number as low as possible.

We were founded in January of 2004 and our mission is to reduce the numbers of animals euthanized in our area shelters through aggressive adoption and spay / neuter programs.

Furthermore, after raising the money, HSUS recommended that the 53 Vick dogs be euthanized, but canine behavior experts recommended by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the request of the US Department of Agriculture determined that all but one of the dogs could be rehabilitated because they were not aggressive to humans.

However, the latest figures indicate that the number of pet deaths (cats and dogs combined) in shelters is closer to four or five million and that many of those animals are euthanized at owner request or because they are too old, aggressive, or sick to be adopted.

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The numbers include dogs that were ill, injured, or aggressive upon arrival and are euthanized by their respective animal control facilities when their owners did not turn up to reclaim them.

And yes, the question always raised...... we do, at times, have to euthanize animals in our care because they are too sick, old, or aggressive for placement.

Animals still may be euthanized when they are highly aggressive, severely injured or have an untreatable medical condition, says Jody Jones, operations manager for Richmond Animal Care and Control.

They neglect to note that a large number of these animals are either surrendered by their owners for euthanasia because they are old and sick, seriously injured, or dangerously aggressive; that many of the dogs euthanized are unidentified, unclaimed strays that are too old, sick, injured or aggressive to be placed in new homes; and many of the cats euthanized are feral animals that were never owned but were trapped and impounded because they have become nuisances.

A recent (January 2012) poll by the Associated Press found that almost three - fourths of Americans believe shelters should be «allowed to euthanize animals only when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted.»

It soon became obvious that only the very old, very ill, severely injured, or aggressive dogs were to be euthanized at the SPCA and that no animals would die for lack of space or because they had treatable diseases or behavior problems.

If you can't keep your cat separated from the stimuli that brings on her aggressive behavior and you're unable to work with a professional animal behavior specialist, please consider having your cat humanely euthanized.

Although they do euthanize, this shelter will keep the animals as long as they don't get full and the animal is not seriously ill or aggressive.

Animals are euthanized if they are too aggressive to be safely placed in a home or too ill to be rehabilitated.

Large dogs over 40 pounds that are aggressive to cats, other dogs, and people are considered a public safety issue by Huntsville Animal Services, and if they are accepted into the shelter they will be humanely euthanized.

The focus in shelters across the nation is to drastically reduce the number of homeless animals that are euthanized to less than 10 percent — with that 10 percent being only the truly aggressive or unhealthy.

If an unadoptable animal such as this has to be held for a week, space issues might also dictate that an adoptable animal would have to be euthanized in order to make room for the aggressive one.