Sentences with phrase «euthanize animals who»

It's one thing to euthanize animals who are suffering and beyond help, but it's another to destroy healthy and adoptable animals who have every potential to live long, happy lives as beloved family members.

Still, we believe it is important to have the opportunity to openly discuss why it is sometimes necessary to euthanize animals who are not suitable candidates for adoption.

Some shelters euthanize animals who can't find homes in order to make space for other animals that have a better chance of being adopted.

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.

It also may be deemed necessary to euthanize an animal who displays behavior that poses a threat to humans and / or animals.

Cities and towns spend millions of dollars each year caring for, and unfortunately euthanizing animals who are homeless

Not exact matches

Shedd Aquarium is saddened to announce the passing of one of its most iconic and beloved animal residents and longest - lived of any fish in a zoological setting in the world — Granddad, a male Australia lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) who was humanely euthanized Sunday due to a rapid decline in quality of life associated with old age.

«However, when the Moore tornadoes hit, and I saw so many animals displaced by the destruction, I began to worry more about the safety of my pet — especially after seeing the story on the news about one of the pets who had been claimed by a displaced family, being accidentally euthanized.»

Every year thousands of animals are euthanized or sent home to die because the people who love them can not financially absorb the cost of veterinary care.

Near and dear to my heart, it opened in 2013 with the goal of saving the lives of behaviorally challenging animals who may otherwise have been euthanized due to reactivity or shy, fearful behavior.

Many high - kill shelters must euthanize animals each day in order to make room for new ones who have come in.

Shelters or pounds who euthanize animals must be obligated to ensure that employees are technically proficient, competent, skilled, compassionate, properly trained, and doing everything in their power to make sure the animals are as free from stress and anxiety as possible.

In order to end overpopulation, we need to spay / neuter the animals on the streets, in the alleys, and tied to the backyard trees, these are the animals who need spaying / neutering, both for their health and to lessen the number euthanized each year, for lack cage space or homes.

We have great relationships with certain shelter workers who contact us when they have animals in danger of being euthanized and we rescue as many as we can off those lists.

Shelters that euthanize aren't run by evil people, just people who feel like they're out of options and don't want to watch the animals in their care waste away.

The same shelter has a save rate of 66.66 % (where «saved» includes animals who will likely ultimately be euthanized) and a live release rate of 33.33 % (where animals without a final fate are included in the formula of intake).

Department of Agriculture reports mention more than 100 cases of animals receiving inadequate medical care, including a cat with a broken leg and internal bleeding that went seven days without being seen by a vet and a dog with a gunshot wound to the face who went 12 days without medical attention before being euthanized.

They hug clients who lose a beloved pet, and they cry when sick or injured or old animals are euthanized.

There was camp A, those who thought that Boo - Boo Kitty deserved a second chance, and there was camp B, those that thought she should be euthanized because they were far too many more adoptable animals out there.

Now assisted by four volunteers and the network of foster families, «We all work full - time jobs, and the five of us give 100 % to stop the deaths of so many animals who will be euthanized,» Betina said.

Animals who are severely injured or have a serious disease from which they can not recover may be euthanized if it is the most humane option to end their suffering.

They try to solve this problem by encouraging or requiring people to spay or neuter their pets (to reduce the number of cats and dogs who need homes), 57 encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters rather than purchasing them from pet stores or breeders (to increase the number of people looking to provide homes to animals in shelters), 58 and donating money to shelters and foster programs that care for cats and dogs waiting to be adopted (so they can house animals for longer).59 Collectively, these solutions have greatly reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters.60 The problem is well understood, although making further progress in solving it may be expensive in areas where all these solutions have already been implemented.

San Francisco Aid for Animals was founded in 2011 by four San Francisco veterinarians who became alarmed by the number of pets being euthanized or surrendered because many owners could not afford to pay for their pet's veterinary care.

The shelter operated by the nonprofit Animal Friends of the Valleys is engaged in a national competition sponsored by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to save the lives of abandoned or straypets who otherwise would be euthanized.

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

The Halifax Humane Society handled about 17,000 animals last year, more than 9,000 of which were euthanized, according to Noe, who added that animals are put to sleep «daily» because they are not adopted.

Located in Mesa, Arizona, the dedicated team save companion animals who were scheduled to be euthanized at a Maricopa County area kill shelter.

More than 70 percent of cats who enter our animal control and sheltering system are euthanized.

Animals who either failed to perform or were no longer competitive were routinely euthanized to the tune of nearly twenty thousand dogs per year.

It is a sad society when the busiest among us is the person who is in the business of euthanizing healthy animals.

The dogs that attacked Fitzgerald and neighbor Harvey Randolph, who rescued her, were euthanized after an animal control hearing.

The animal - rights group trying to save Rufus from being euthanized is no longer working with the dog's owner, who has now hired her own lawyer to get the beagle back after it bit her 4 - year - old son in the face.

August 2012 Research suggests that eliminating adoption fees does not devalue the animal in the eyes of the adopter, and that free adult cat adoption programs could «dramatically impact the lives of thousands of shelter cats who would otherwise reside in a shelter for months or be euthanized.»

Aside from the toll it takes on your dog to give birth to a litter and raise pups, the number of homeless animals who are euthanized each year makes it an irresponsible decision to allow your dog to mate.

Excluding the dogs who arrived at LAAS shelters dead and those that died while in the shelter but were not euthanized, nearly 20 percent (or one dog in five) brought into Los Angeles city animal shelters is put to death.

Based on a 1997 survey of 1,000 shelters, the American Humane Association estimates that roughly 64 percent of the animals who enter shelters are euthanized.

While I definitely do applaud Mr. Avanzino for all the innovative programs he created that benefit animals everywhere, the real blood, sweat and tears still occurs in the public shelters and with the people who choose to stay and not walk away to the private shelter that doesn't euthanize animals.

The private companion animal veterinarian who splits her time between Vieques and the main island of Puerto Rico has equine expertise and could come out to assess the animal, but she wouldn't be able to treat or euthanize the foal without the owner's permission.

Remember that animals with ID and those who will be euthanized rather than made available for adoption or rescue can always be held longer.

It's a month where we shift our focus to the millions of shelter dogs who enter American animal shelters every year, and where far too many are euthanized.

In shelters that have to euthanize, there are thousands of animal lovers throughout the country who devote their time and open their heart so a dog or cat will know someone does care, all the while realizing it could be the the last time that animal will know a loving hand or a kind voice.

When she was hired as executive director in 2009, half of the roughly 1,400 animals who came through Lynchburg Humane's doors each year were euthanized.

Feral cats» needs are not met by the current animal control and shelter system because animals who are not adoptable are euthanized.

Ill and injured cats may be very disturbing to other compassionate citizens, who may call animal control authorities believing that the animal should be euthanized, rather than living with illness or injury.

Every animal who goes into a foster home brings down the number of shelter pets euthanized each year.

Anyone who has seen an animal euthanized in a shelter for lack of a home knows the truth behind this dangerous myth.

Until pet overpopulation is reduced to a point where animal shelters and rescue groups can handle the number of homeless, incoming animals without having to euthanize for space, we believe it is more humane to spay the pregnant pet than it is to contribute to pet overpopulation where that future litter could potentially live life on the streets as homeless pets, and will displace another pet who is waiting for a hone.

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.

You should also track animals who die, are lost while in care or are euthanized.

Often rescues receive requests for help from people who wish to find foster homes for their beloved pets instead of surrendering them to the local animal shelter where they will most likely be euthanized.