This program is for individuals who are 18 years or older and are interested in providing temporary
care for a shelter animal in their home.
Despite what some critics may tell you, breeding dogs does, in fact, take away homes
for shelter animals in need.
The goals we had were to increase adoptions and provide a better quality of
life for shelter animals, and most of all help solve the animal overpopulation problems.
This is helpful because it is people in the community who provide
homes for shelter animals, and the more people there are, the more potential homes are available.
Thanks to valuable clients, our pet boarding and grooming service provides critical revenue to provide care
for the shelter animals who are awaiting their forever homes.
In addition to 45 paid full - time employees, the shelter has 3 veterinarians to oversee its health and wellness issues
for shelter animals as well as service our community wellness clinic.
Although formal shelter health consultations are a powerful tool to change the
outcome for shelter animals, not every shelter challenge requires an onsite visit to get effective advice for positive change.
With over 130 years of service to our community, we are proud of the support
for our shelter animals from local foundations, businesses, families and individuals.
She quickly realized she wanted to do
more for shelter animals and decided the best way to achieve that goal was to attend veterinary school and focus on shelter medicine.
We will also be making comfortable dog
beds for shelter animals who would otherwise have to sleep on the concrete floor.
In shelters, as in the farm animal context in which they were developed, meeting all five freedoms
for all sheltered animals at all times is not possible.
Groups are encouraged to collect toys /
treats for shelter animals or raise money for the animals and bring their donations to the shelter at the time of their tour.
They will either specifically accept donations for the food pantry or will give away any donations they are not able to
use for the shelter animals.
You become an active volunteer by collecting pet food for our free pantry, making
toys for our shelter animals or doing different fundraising projects for our needy pets!
On occasion, other vaccinations may be indicated
for shelter animals because the diseases pose a known risk for a particular population.
Are you ready to develop the knowledge, experience, and wisdom to join a shelter and make an immediate positive
impact for shelter animals and the communities they live in?
We work tirelessly to save as many homeless pets as possible and to relocate them to shelters in states where there is a
demand for shelter animals.
This event happens because of the compassion of people in the local rescue community who take time out of their busy lives to provide some extra
love for shelter animals.
The Rescue Crew was created especially to help fill a need in the local rescue
community for shelter animals facing imminent risk of euthanasia without rescue support.
The Friends could not offer much of our community outreach or provide all of the medical care
for our shelter animals if it were not for the remarkable generosity of our veterinarian partners.
In addition, most shelters and rescues also offer in - house behavior and training
plans for shelter animals to begin their education and make them more desirable for adoption.
I don't believe that that is true for any of the world's problems that we face and I can prove that is not
true for shelter animals or homeless youth.
Finding that perfect «adoption number» is made both more critical and more complicated by the fact that length of stay is not
neutral for shelter animals.
The challenge, according to this logic, is better marketing of shelter pets both by the shelters themselves and by rescue groups, which serve as halfway
houses for shelter animals.
A bright
future for sheltered animals depends on new generations of veterinarians with specialized knowledge and skills to keep shelter pets healthy and treat those who are sick and injured.