Sentences with phrase «from shelters and rescues»

Oftentimes, future animal parents are wary of adopting from shelters and rescues because of the misconceptions surrounding the actual process of animal adoption.

This incredible policy applies to dogs adopted from shelters and rescues — obviously, our preference here at Shelter Me, to the extent we have a say — and dogs acquired via other means.

Supporting stores that only feature adoptable animals from shelters and rescues is one of the many ways you can help put these inhumane breeding operations out of business.

This would help ensure that animals adopted from shelters and rescues would not go to known animal abusers.

Including the event this weekend, FCNMHP has held 21 Mega and Super Adoption Events, saving the lives of more than 13,000 homeless dogs and cats from shelters and rescues across northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

Please adopt animals from shelters and rescues.

Today, it is estimated that about 35 % of pet acquisitions are from shelters and rescues (all - breed rescues seem to have been very rare before the 1990s).

Sarah is especially interested in helping dogs from shelters and rescues become happy, healthy, life - long companions.

In order to reduce the occurrence of euthanasia of adoptable animals, we must not only increase the number of animals that are adopted from shelters and rescues, but we must also reduce the number of animals that enter municipal shelters.

On the return flights, animals from shelters and rescues have been primarily flown to St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in New Jersey, and then the animals are distributed amongst a network of shelters in the Northeast to be placed up for adoption.

AB 485 would also jeopardize warranty protections currently required of retailers, as the state could not reasonably require stores to warranty pets from shelters and rescues.»

Now the time comes for me to welcome a puppy or small breed adult into my family and I'm met with road block after road block from shelters and rescues.

Moving forward, under the terms of this ordinance, only adoptable animals from shelters and rescues will be made available in local retail outlets.

She provides coaching and consultation services to those who choose to adopt senior animals from shelters and rescues across the country.

Many of the pets from shelters and rescues are already housetrained, which means you're not only saving a pet's life, you may be saving your rug.

The number of adoptions from shelters and rescues went up from about 5 % or so of intake in 1970 to over 40 % today.

HB 4056 would allow pet stores across the state to only acquire dogs and cats from shelters and rescues, and direct the Department of Agriculture to study the issue after five years.

I've been volunteering with, fostering, and adopting dogs from shelters and rescues for many years.

Veterinarians Many of the «new» dogs of your clients are adopted from shelters and rescues, and the standard «Puppy Package» doesn't fit the bill.

This bill would require pet stores to get dogs and cats from shelters and rescues.

-- According to the ASPCA, about 60 percent of U.S. households have a pet, but only 10 - 20 percent of those cats or dogs were adopted from shelters and rescues.

This type of law may still allow pet stores to provide physical space to help rehome animals from shelters and rescues.

Fatal and disfiguring attacks by dogs from shelters and rescues have exploded from zero in the first 90 years of the 20th century to 80 in the past four years, including 58 by pit bulls, along with 22 fatal & disfiguring attacks by other shelter dogs, mostly Rottweilers & bull mastiffs.

Another recent article, from USNews, details other states that are working toward pet stores only being able to sell animals from shelters and rescues (if at all).

For one, Troy Burress, the author of the World - Herald comment, reasons that because he knows one rescue dog that bit people that most animals from shelters and rescues are going to be violent.

Adopt from shelters and rescues rather than breeders and pet stores.

I hope your project will fan the flames of awareness and get more people out there to adopt from shelters and rescues.

Leader Dog takes dogs from shelters and rescues.

Furthermore, the chain store appears to have amended its policy late this year: «Effective October 1, 2015, Petland company stores will only source puppies from shelters and rescues, hobby breeders and USDA - licensed breeders who have no direct violations within the previous two years.»

The dogs pictured hail from shelters and rescue groups and serve as a reminder that, as Casteel writes, «adoption is a fantastic option when considering bringing a puppy into your life.»

At Best Friends pet super adoptions, hundreds of adoptable pets are available from shelters and rescue groups

While puppies are cuddly, and many grow up to become wonderful companions, prospective pet owners sometimes forget the trouble involved with raising a canine from infancy, and they overlook the countless mature dogs awaiting adoption from shelters and rescue organizations.

Also, we've been highlighting a legislative bill that's currently in Nebraska's Unicameral which proposes that, among other things, pet stores in Nebraska should only sell animals from shelters and rescue.

«This bill will simultaneously decrease the demand for animals bred in puppy mills and kitten mills, and increase the demand for animals from shelters and rescue organizations,» Assemblymember O'Donnell told the Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

Additionally, S63 would require that any new pet stores could only sell animals from shelters and rescue groups (YAY!).

Her experiences dealing with the animals from shelters and rescue groups strengthened her interest in the field of shelter medicine, and in 2006 Dr. Janeczko became the first resident in Shelter Medicine at Cornell University.

Adoption fees from shelters and rescue groups can vary from free to several hundred dollars.

We are also collecting data from shelter and rescue directors about shelter medicine within your organization.

The specific purpose of GSRNC is the prevention of cruelty to animals by rescuing and rehoming German Shepherds, educating the public about the advantages of adopting dogs from shelters and rescue organizations, providing proper care and training, and teaching about the need for spaying and neutering to reduce pet overpopulation.

The dogs and puppies shown below are available for adoption from the shelters and rescue groups that will be attending Adoptapalooza in Union Square Park on Sunday, September 18, 2016.

We will select appropriate puppies from shelters and rescue groups to be trained by Putnam Service Dogs, ending up in loving, appreciative homes of their recipients.

Eight high / volume, low - cost, spay / neuter clinics serve Michigan's homeless pets from shelters and rescue organizations.

We respond to calls from shelter and rescue groups that are forced to destroy animals as a means of population control, and we respond to the cries of so many dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens in peril that count on us to save their lives.

According to the ASPCA, only 20 to 30 percent of cats and dogs are adopted from shelters and rescue groups; the rest are purchased from breeders and pet stores.

On Valentine's Day, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously for an ordinance requiring pet stores to only sell cats and dogs coming from shelters and rescue groups.

Accurate data from shelters and rescue groups is difficult to obtain because there is no central data reporting system for these institutions, and most states don't require reporting.

The laws require pet stores that offer dogs for sale to source them from shelters and rescue organizations instead of breeders.

Pets adopted from shelters and rescue groups typically cost less than pets purchased or even acquired for free — once you add in the cost of vaccinations, spay / neuter surgery, microchip, dewormer, and other «extras» included in your adoption fee, you'll probably be surprised what a bargain an adopted pet really is!

For example, Florida law requires that animals adopted from shelters and rescue groups be sterilized, and most adoption programs are already compliant with this law.

The new ordinance will help move the marketplace away from puppy mills, and toward consumers buying directly from responsible breeders and pet stores holding in - store adoptions of animals that come from shelters and rescue groups.