Not exact matches
According to the animal welfare groups
involved in the big shift, each unit will be able to accommodate around 20
dogs and will include basic
facilities like food storage and bathing areas.
This training route
involves the owner leaving their
dog with a trainer for several weeks to be trained at the trainer's
facility or home.
The American Veterinary Medical Association is concerned after the U. S. Department of Agriculture removed from its website inspection reports, regulatory correspondence and other information
involving compliance with the Animal Welfare Act by commercial
dog breeders and
facilities such as zoos and research labs.
Boot camp situations
involve a trainer taking the
dog to their home or training
facility for a specified period of time and working with the
dog one on one.
Good infection control practices can reduce that risk, so
dog owners
involved in shows, sports, or other activities with their
dogs or who board their
dogs at kennels should ask whether respiratory disease has been a problem there, and whether the
facility has a plan for isolating
dogs that develop respiratory disease and for notifying owners if their
dogs have been exposed to
dogs with respiratory disease.
Make sure any group
facility has an infection - control plan in place, which
involves checking for respiratory symptoms at admission, immediately isolating a
dog that starts coughing, disinfecting everything that
dog has come into contact with and notifying all owners of the incident [sources: Iowa State, AVMA].
To help end the misery associated with large - scale
dog breeding operations known as «puppy mills,» The Humane Society of the United States has launched a national telephone tip line and encourages callers to report suspected cruelty or unlawful activities
involving such breeding
facilities.
The safety of the Vanguard CIV H3N2 / H3N8 vaccine was demonstrated in a study
involving 364
dogs, including 164 client - owned
dogs and 200
dogs from commercial breeding
facilities.
The construction of proper
facilities and maintenance of large runs and conditioned space for the
dogs involves a lot of resources.
He was also
involved in developing a
dog training program at the Mansfield Correctional
Facility that utilizes inmates to train shelter
dogs in order to learn a skill and make the
dogs more adoptable.
Pound seizure
involves shelter
dogs and cats taken away for research, sometimes directly by a research
facility or often through a class B dealer that will resell the animals for profit to the research
facilities.
The initiative does not affect individuals who raise hunting
dogs, livestock
facilities, or animal rescue and shelter operators that are not
involved in commercial sale of puppies.
Some of these animal control
facilities use extremely inhumane practices like gas chambers and heartstick to euthanize the
dogs and many have kill rates over 90 % before rescues get
involved.
She became
involved with the Stark County
Dog Warden Department five years ago and spends many hours each week walking, grooming, socializing and loving the
dogs at the
facility.
Because puppy mills
involve two different groups of
dogs — the adult breeding
dogs confined in the
facilities and the puppies that come from puppy mills to be sold to consumers — I want to clarify that the puppy mill
dogs we are referring to here are the adult breeding
dogs.
AB 389 of 2015 and the identical SB 231 provide that a court shall permit the use of a
facility dog when, in a criminal proceeding
involving the testimony of a vulnerable witness, the court determines by a preponderance of the evidence that it is likely that such witness will be unable to effectively communicate if required to testify without the presence of such
facility dog and that the presence of such
facility dog will facilitate such testimony.
«In a criminal trial
involving a jury in which the certified
facility dog is utilized, the court shall present appropriate jury instructions that are designed to prevent prejudice for or against any party.»
Idaho SB 1089 as enacted provides when a child is summoned as a witness in any hearing in a noncriminal matter that
involves the abuse, neglect or abandonment of the child, including any preliminary hearing, notwithstanding any other statutory provision, a
facility dog shall be allowed to remain in the courtroom at the witness stand with the child during the child's testimony.