Many cities and counties in the United States have been able to put a stop to
euthanizing healthy cats, still others have developed a plan and a timetable for getting there.
We weren't
euthanizing healthy cats, but healthy cats admitted were certainly dying due to the ease of disease transmission that came with our self - imposed overcrowding.
and have more cities on the way, but we won't stop until every single city has stopped
euthanizing healthy cats and dogs!
To routinely
euthanize a healthy cat that could otherwise live out a normal life is unconscionable.
Those strategies included implementing return - to - field programs for community cats; limiting intake to only those cats who can be released alive or for whom death is the appropriate alternative; and investing the resources not spent on
euthanizing healthy cats in programs to benefit cats, wildlife and communities.
RCCAH will never
euthanize a healthy cat that tests positive on a routine screening test.
Euthanizing these healthy cats simply because they would not make good pets is something we, and many other organizations, will not continue to do just out of a fear that their life outdoors won't be ideal.
Not exact matches
Around 250,000
healthy cats and dogs are
euthanized in Australian shelters each year.
Dr. McDonald had seen too many
cats and dogs that would make wonderful pets
euthanized because no adoption organization was equipped to deal with them since most rescue organizations tend to take only
healthy or breed specific animals.
Fifty - six percent of dogs and seventy - six percent of
cats in shelters are
euthanized... many of them
healthy, well - behaved animals whose owners simply didn't have time for them anymore.
Every year literally hundreds of thousands of
healthy cats and kittens are
euthanized in US shelters for want of loving homes.
In other words, it means that
healthy, treatable or adoptable
cats and dogs will not be
euthanized simply because there is no space for them in the city shelter.
Thanks to a skilled and manipulative defense team, the two PETA staffers were found guilty only of lesser charges; however, the trial exposed PETAâ $ ™ s shocking record of
euthanizing healthy dogs and
cats - up to a 90 % euthanasia rate â $» as well as the fact that PETA is singularly responsible for the deaths of over 14,400 dogs,
cats and other companion animals during the period of 1998 - 2005.
Each year in this nation, 6 million to 8 million
healthy dogs and
cats are
euthanized at shelters such as the Seminole Humane Society because they can't find a home.
Around 250,000
healthy cats and dogs are
euthanized in Australian shelters each year.
Every year, as many as 8 million
cats and dogs end up in shelters where, tragically, roughly 2.7 million
healthy and treatable animals are still
euthanized.
The data also confirms that feral
cats live
healthy lives outdoors: less than half of a percent were
euthanized due to medical issues.
Every 13 seconds, a
healthy, adoptable dog or
cat is
euthanized in a U.S. shelter, according to the Humane Society of the United States (www.hsus.org).
To ensure that
healthy cats and dogs no longer used for research, testing or education purposes be made available for adoption instead of being
euthanized, and to put in place the process for adoption through agreements with local shelters or rescue groups.
«By spaying or neutering your pet, you'll help control the pet homelessness crisis, which results in millions of
healthy dogs and
cats being
euthanized in the United States each year simply because there aren't enough homes to go around.
Every year, millions of
healthy dogs and
cats in the United States are
euthanized simply because there aren't enough homes to go around.
• Have not: o We continue working toward a world where
healthy cats are no longer «
euthanized» in shelterso We work toward establishing TNR programs in all communitieso We need to increase public understanding of outdoor
cats» role in the community.
An estimated one million
healthy FIV +
cats are
euthanized each year because of misconceptions about this disease.
IndyFeral hopes one day that there will be homes for all
cats, but the current reality is that
healthy, adoptable
cats are
euthanized daily due to a lack of homes.
This year AC&C has not had to
euthanize any
healthy animals because of space, but the agency said in a press release they need the public to adopt
cats to keep that record intact.
«Unfortunately, tens of thousands of
healthy dogs and
cats are
euthanized each year in Quebec because homes for these animals are not found,» said Ewa Demianowicz, campaigner for HSI / Canada.
«PetHealthStore is focused on keeping pets
healthy, as are these rescue groups, who selflessly foster and adopt
cats and dogs who otherwise might be
euthanized.
Our vision is to end the need to
euthanize healthy, adoptable dogs and
cats by reducing the number of dogs and
cats that enter the region's shelters.
Many people are surprised to learn that nationwide, more than 2.7 million
healthy, adoptable
cats and dogs are
euthanized in shelters annually.
Of the 3 million
cats and dogs
euthanized in shelters each year, approximately 2.4 million (80 %) are
healthy and treatable and could have been adopted into new homes
Each year, millions of
healthy cats and dogs are
euthanized because shelters are full, and there is nowhere for them to go.
Almost all of the
cats euthanized for testing positive at Operation Catnip clinics appeared outwardly
healthy.
According to statistics published by the Humane Society of the United States in 2017, «Of the 3 million
cats and dogs
euthanized in shelters each year, appoximately 2.4 million (80 %) are
healthy and treatable and could have been adopted into new homes.»
Testing on
healthy animals who are infected on purpose is never easy in order to find a cure, but were these
cats that would have been
euthanized because of whatever reason?
Much work remains, as every 60 seconds, 5
healthy cats and dogs are
euthanized in American shelters because there are not enough good homes for them.
When a shelter admits more
healthy cats than they can either provide with lifetime care, place into homes or otherwise release alive, they will
euthanize the difference.
As of June 2014, only 13 feral
cats were
euthanized healthy in the prior 12 months.
The remaining 385
healthy feral
cats were
euthanized at the shelter from March 2010 to June 2014.
We house last chance dogs and
cats until they find their forever homes and never
euthanize healthy, adoptable pets.
But portraying them as miserable creatures in constant suffering leads to the conclusion that feral
cats should be
euthanized rather than being altered and allowed to live out their lives (which are frequently long and
healthy).
The Delaware State Senate voted unanimously to legally compel research laboratories to release
healthy dogs and
cats that are often times
euthanized when facilities no longer need them for testing.
Even if
cats that entered the shelter
healthy are ultimately
euthanized as a result of illness or stress rather than for space, the goal of «no euthanasia of
healthy cats» has not been met.
When a
cat was
euthanized as a
healthy feral, it was because the location to return the
cat was not deemed safe or viable.
From March 2010 to June 2014, 385
cats (3.4 %) were
euthanized as a
healthy feral, but unadoptable, out of the total 11,423
healthy feral
cats impounded alive at the shelter.
Did you know that every year, of the 8 million dogs and
cats that enter animal shelters, 3 million of these
healthy and treatable pets are
euthanized?
Local
cat advocates discussed a program with the shelter manager, based on a 2008 Jacksonville, Florida, USA plan (Mitchell, 2008), to alter all
healthy feral
cats impounded at the shelter, and then return the
cats to their place of capture, rather than
euthanize them as
healthy but unadoptable.
C.A.T. will not
euthanize healthy, adoptable
cats to make room for new ones.
The act would require that before a shelter could
euthanize a
healthy or treatable
cat or dog they would be required to make the animal available to a Certified Rescue Organization.
The Humane Society of Greater Miami does not
euthanize dogs or
cats that are
healthy (or treatable) and of good temperament.
KHS is committed to saving every
healthy, behaviorally sound
cat or dog who comes through our doors, and we never
euthanize for space, ever.