Sentences with phrase «from shelter kennel»

The proposal is to remove breed labels from shelter kennel cards, forcing adopters to base their decisions on more important factors like the dog's personality, size, and training.

In the meanwhile, we all might want to give careful consideration to the PLOS One study and possibly remove breed names from shelter kennel cards to allow the public to make choices based on interactions with individual dogs rather than sensationalist headlines.

Employees are happy to work with Animal Friends and help shelter animals get some relief from their shelter kennels.

Not exact matches

Some longtime animal welfare professionals can remember the days of tiny cinderblock shelters hidden away from the community, bare concrete kennels and unthinkable euthanasia rates.

Reader «Fed up 1978» asked: «What's the hold up on the Jamesville dog kennel and is it true that there is a contract with DeWitt the only for - profit shelter in our area to pay them $ 75 to $ 125 per dog on top of the money they receive from the city via their contract?

What started with three pets in the first year now shelters 150 — from hamsters and cats to horses and dogs — in kennels or foster homes, and provides relief for more than 1,000 people seeking safe temporary housing.

You'll learn everything from where to locate your shelter to how to how to provide daily in - kennel enrichment to hundreds of animals to dismantling the shelter at the end of the operation.

«Some shelter dogs can get kennel cough, which is a virus passed from dog to dog,» says Kelly Dilday, a technician at the Animal Medical Clinic in Portland, Ore. «They might also have some abdominal parasites.»

In breeding facilities, animal shelters, kennels, and other areas where numerous pets may come into close proximity with one another, it is wise to isolate infected animals from those that are not.

People come in and say, «You're killing them all,» and here they are giving me sick kittens from their cat they never spayed,» said Tina Lee, kennel supervisor at the shelter.

Boogie was rescued from an animal shelter near Corpus Christi and taken to a nearby vet to be treated for kennel cough and await transport to our center.

Cassie came in as a stray from a County Animal Shelter and developed a bad case of kennel cough there (always a serious problem for older dogs in a shelter enviroShelter and developed a bad case of kennel cough there (always a serious problem for older dogs in a shelter enviroshelter environment).

◊ If you are asked to leave your home and can take your animals with you but you do not have a place to take your animals (relative, friends, neighbors, boarding kennel etc.) you may contact: CCADT at 559 -433-WOOF (9663) and ask for assistance in sheltering / caring for your domestic dogs, cats and domestic small animals while you are displaced from your home during an evacuation.

The animals often come from questionable breeding centers that have been shut down, as well as from kennels, veterinarian offices or local animal shelters.

Like many dogs coming from the shelter, Tyson has come down with kennel cough and is starting medication.

In addition to working for FIDO, her background ranges from working as a veterinary assistant, doggy daycare attendant, groomer, as well as working in kennels, shelters, and even horse stables.

Nearly every morning, a small team of volunteers heads to the Aiken County Animal Shelter's play yard and gathers dogs from the kennels so they can exercise together.

The animal shelter has been helping all of the homeless shelter dogs escape from the extreme heat — thanks to the support of the local community, dogs who are confined to kennel runs at the facility get to cool down thanks to their own personal pools which have been donated by area residents.

When purchasing a dog from a kennel or shelter, be certain that disinfectants are used routinely and that all dogs are properly vaccinated.

Most shelters let you visit with a dog in an area away from the kennels.

Our shelter never received any funds from the Hayden mandate when they had to expand the shelter by 40 kennels to adhere to the law.

If a dog with respiratory signs is presented, staff members should inquire whether the dog has recently been boarded or adopted from a shelter, has recently participated in dog - related group activities, or whether it has been exposed to other dogs known to have canine influenza or kennel cough.

«We got an anonymous call Thursday saying the dogs were at their owners» house,» said Jerry Swanger, Deltona Animal Control manager.The dogs - which a Volusia circuit judge sentenced to death last month because of their aggression toward people and because they have killed five cats - disappeared Oct. 31 from the shelter, where workers found a lock cut and a kennel door pried open.

MAP was born as the ASPCA fielded inquiries from overcrowded shelters seeking facilities with open kennels or help connecting with a partner.

In this Friday, March 4, 2011 photo, dogs fill a kennel at the Lenoir County Animal Shelter in Kinston, N.C. Animals routinely go from overloaded Southern shelters like this where euthanasia rates sometimes reach 70 percent to the puppy and kitten - starved states of the North.

As the behavior and training manager, part of my role is to develop individual training plans for shelter dogs who display common behavioral issues: fear, lack of impulse control, high arousal, or deterioration from kennel stress.

In the six months that passed from the Vick fight bust to the start of Uba's new foster life, shelter volunteers said he sat pressed against the chain link of his kennel in Virginia, a small cement space that was routinely hosed down while he sat inside it.

IMPORTANT: Note that you should not give puppies honey; puppies are mostly likely to have kennel cough from their time in shelters or pet stores, but do not use this until they are considered an adult (over 2 years of age).

From the crate they will go to shelters and be put in stainless steel 3 sided kennels with no fresh air and again sitting in their own waste between paper changes.

Kittens adopted from shelters quite often have URIs (upper respiratory infections), including Bordetella (kennel cough).

Receiving help from our Aussie friends, Buster was pulled from the shelter for MARS on June 10th, and taken to a wonderfully generous veterinarian who boarded him, treated him for his kennel cough, and performed the necessary neuter, using Acepromazine as a sedative, as we looked for a foster home.

Funding from the Pet Memorial program helps stock shelter shelves with supplies, keep kennels clean, improve facilities, expand enrichment programs for pets, provide medical care, and ensure that more adoptable pets find forever homes.

Kennel cough is a cold that dogs typically get from shelters or kennels.

In the book, Kavin investigates everything from hobby breeders to shelters to the billion - dollar pure - breed industry the she says fuels the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

The stress on shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the shelter; counties lacking even a shelter or inside kenneling.

Dogs at Saving Grace are selected from local shelters where lack of kennel space keeps animals from being placed up for adoption.

The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D - Union), looked to require any new pet store licensed on or after Jan. 12 of next year to only sell dogs or cats that hailed from kennels, shelters or animal rescue organizations.

One of the biggest challenges for a shelter like this is to keep illness from spreading, especially those that are airborne, such as kennel cough, which is pretty much guaranteed to be present in the air at most shelters.

Proposed as a revision to the state's Pet Purchase Protection Act, the year - old law hailed nationally as a tough check on puppy mills, the Senate - approved bill sought to also prohibit kennels, shelters or animal rescue organizations from purchasing dogs or cats from the commercial breeders.

It would also prohibit pet shops from getting their stock of animals from anywhere except kennels, shelters or animal rescue organizations, unless the shop had its own breeding outfit, Lesniak said.

While I am pleased that the animals trapped in forced breeding kennels in West Virginia will have better lives, in my view, there is no such thing as a «good» commercial breeding operation because no good comes from exploiting animals and flooding the market with factory - farmed pets while millions are dying in our shelters.

New York, NY — Friday, October 8, 2010 — Despite its disappointment with the American Kennel Club's (AKC) decision to forbid adoptable dogs and puppies from local animal rescue groups and shelters from being on the premises at this month's «Meet the Breeds» event at the Javit's Center, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals says it does not want to discourage New York animal lovers from attending the event and gaining the benefits of its educational components, particularly with regard to responsible pet ownership.

From there, she began working at a veterinary hospital / animal shelter, as a kennel assistant, her senior year of high school.

The virus is transmitted by direct oronasal contact as well as aerosolization of respiratory secretions from infected dogs, with an increased risk of exposure in high - density settings such as animal shelters and boarding kennels.

The chapter on choosing a dog will encourage people to above all get a dog from a breeder who pays registration fees to a kennel club, rather than getting a shelter dog or a mixed mutt.

-- Thank you for taking the time to learn more about what we do to save thousands of animals each year from overcrowded shelters and catastrophic disasters where they often face the prospects of being euthanized for lack of kennel space.

Wings of Rescue's 2018 Mission is to fly as many healthy adoptable pets as possible from overcrowded, high intake shelters to shelters with empty kennels where our precious cargo will not only be guaranteed safety, but also be quickly adopted.

Wings of Rescue is working around the clock to change this mindset by providing desperately needed air transport for thousands of pets from overcrowded high intake shelters where bad things are liable to happen to shelters with plenty of empty kennel space and adopters waiting.

He has worked in all aspects of sheltering from kennel worker to Veterinarian over that time.

When kennel space is available, we are proud to be able to admit pets from other shelters.