The HSUS cautions against spending time and resources considering mandatory spay / neuter legislation when there is a necessary and effective path — one that will get us closer to building more humane communities and ending the euthanasia of
healthy animals in shelters.
AANT's intent and purpose is to prevent animal cruelty and neglect, reduce the euthanasia rate of
healthy animals in shelters and promote spay and neuter programs to reduce the number of homeless animals.
We need to educate people to take responsibility for their pets and implement legislation that will help to end the euthanization of millions of
healthy animals in our shelters every year.
Clay Humane is one of our areas oldest and most proactive animal welfare organizations, motivated by one goal — fostering humane attitudes in our communities and, in turn, ending the needless euthanasia of
healthy animals in our shelters.
Not exact matches
This declaration comes just two months after San Diego
Animal Welfare Coalition (SDAWC)
shelters ** announced reaching «Getting to Zero,» which refers to reaching zero euthanasia of
healthy or treatable
animals in San Diego.
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.
It's transitioned from a limited - admission
shelter to an open one, quintupled the number of
animals in its system and reached the epic milestone of zero euthanasia for
healthy animals five years ahead of schedule.
Donations from the public allowed SDHS to lead the Getting to Zero initiative, which ensures no
healthy, treatable
animal is euthanized
in shelters throughout San Diego County.
Local
animal shelters euthanize hundreds of
healthy and sweet
animals each day to make space for new ones coming
in due to their limited space.
«
In this difficult economy,
shelters and rescue groups need donations more than ever to keep up with the demand for their lifesaving efforts, «said Jane Hoffman, President of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's
Animals, a coalition of more than 150
animal shelters and rescue groups committed to ending the killing of
healthy and treatable cats and dogs at New York City
shelters.
Founded
in 2002, LifeLine
Animal Project is Atlanta's leading nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of healthy and treatable animals in county shelters, promote animal welfare and prevent pet overpopul
Animal Project is Atlanta's leading nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of
healthy and treatable
animals in county
shelters, promote
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopul
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation.
Built
in 1988, the existing
shelter is crowded, outdated and provides less than safe and
healthy conditions for humans and
animals.
The ASPCA's
shelter medicine experts,
Animal Poison Control Center staff and
shelter partners provide expertise and tools to keep
animals in your care
healthy.
The Montgomery Humane Society prevents cruelty to
animals by operating an
animal shelter for homeless, abandoned, and unwanted
animals; by operating an adoption center for
healthy animals; by investigating cruelty and abuse cases; and by educating the public
in animal owner responsibility.
If we are to really get to being a no kill nation — where no
healthy or treatable
animal is killed for being homeless — we need to quit talking about being «no kill
shelters» — and have all organizations
in a community
in order to become «no kill communities».
Can
animal shelters in Michigan really save all their
healthy and treatable pets?
No Kill Nation: A national advocacy organization dedicated to ending the systematic killing of
healthy and treatable
animals in our nation's
shelters.
A national advocacy organization dedicated to ending the systematic killing of
healthy and treatable
animals in our nation's
shelters.
By proving that open admission municipal
shelters, even with old buildings and limited resources, CAN save all the
healthy and treatable
animals in their care.
«The FOTAS Foster Care system not only ensures the
animals are raised
in a
healthy environment, it frees up limited space
in the
shelter for other adoptable
animals,» said FOTAS President Jennifer Miller.
In most
shelters, this is less than the cost of one day of care for a
healthy animal, and certainly less than care for seriously ill
animals.
Five years after that,
in 1994, the SF / SPCA and SF / DACC signed the Adoption Pact, under which the SF / SPCA agreed to accept any
healthy and behaviorally sound dog or cat whose holding time had expired at the
animal control
shelter.
Because the disease may be difficult for the
shelter to detect during the incubation period, apparently
healthy animals with panleukopenia may be adopted out only to become ill a few days later
in their new homes, causing heartache for the
shelter staff and the new owners.
Winograd's criterion, «Saving a higher percentage of
animals,» requires that a city's
shelters be receiving more
healthy animals who can be safely rehomed ---- meaning that the city has been less effective than San Francisco
in eliminating surplus births and
in promoting programs to help keep pets
in their homes, for example by giving landlords incentives to rent to pet keepers.
Temporarily
sheltering of an
animal goes a long way
in keeping abused, abandoned and neglected pets alive and
healthy!
The main features
in this issue of
Animal Sheltering — on the need to see
shelter dogs as individuals, the utility of transport programs and the value of building strong relationships with donors — all speak to the humane movement's sweeping progress
in making our
shelters and rescues successful
in finding homes for
healthy and adoptable
animals.
Not only does the selling of undesexed
animals eventually contribute to the number of unwanted
animals in shelters, for every
animal sold, equally
healthy and deserving
animals needing homes
in animal shelters are on death row waiting for someone to adopt them.
Alakesi Sorokin, director of Basya Services, the company hired for extermination, was quoted as calling Sochi's strays «biological trash,» yet the company denies the killing of
healthy dogs, «insisting that it placed them
in shelters and only disposed of
animals found dead
in the streets,» according to Radio Free Europe.
I work with
shelters in the south as well and it breaks their hearts every day they have to put down
healthy adoptable
animals.
At the
shelter, Missy spends her time communicating with the public, ensuring that all
animals are
healthy and happy here, and working very hard to keep improving our
shelter in any way she can.
Despite a bleak economy, the percentage of pets
in homes that were adopted from
animal shelters and rescue groups has risen from 27 percent to 29 percent
in the last two years, with the number of
healthy and treatable pets losing their lives for lack of a home dropping from 3 million to 2.7 million.
To anyone who supports the murdering of
healthy animals in «
shelters», I have this question for you: Would it be ok if someone killed YOU?
Don't breed and buy when 8 — 10 million perfectly
healthy and adoptable
animals in shelters have to DIE!!!
Founded
in 2002, LifeLine
Animal Project is the leading nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of healthy and treatable animals in county shelters, promote animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation in metro At
Animal Project is the leading nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of
healthy and treatable
animals in county
shelters, promote
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation in metro At
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation
in metro Atlanta.
Today's society has a heightened awareness of the staggering euthanasia rates occurring
in animal shelters, and there is more determination than ever to reduce the killing of
healthy animals.
The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's
Animals, Inc., founded
in 2002 and powered by Maddie's Fund ®, The Pet Rescue Foundation, with support from the ASPCA, is a coalition of more than 150
animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C she
animal rescue groups and
shelters working with
Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C she
Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of
healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C
shelters.
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.
Founded
in 2002, LifeLine
Animal Project is a nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of healthy and treatable animals in county shelters, promote animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation in metro At
Animal Project is a nonprofit organization providing lifesaving solutions to end the killing of
healthy and treatable
animals in county
shelters, promote
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation in metro At
animal welfare and prevent pet overpopulation
in metro Atlanta.
Maddie's Fund ® has given the Berkeley Alliance for Homeless
Animals Coalition (BAHAC) a $ 474,000 Maddie's ® Lifesaving Award * for achieving and maintaining an adoption guarantee for
healthy and treatable
shelter dogs and cats
in Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont, California.
We pledge to work individually and together to save lives through rescue, adoption, and foster care; to reduce the number of
animals entering
shelters; and, to provide pet owners with the services they need to keep their pets
healthy and
in their homes.
Since then we have created partnerships with more than 40 different
shelters to transfer
animals at risk of euthanasia to our facility for the second chance they deserve; we have developed the second highest volume spay / neuter clinic
in Washington state; and we have continued to expand our efforts to ensure
healthy, adoptable and treatable
animals across Washington state and beyond are given a second chance.
Owner surrendered cats and those formerly adopted from Town Cats are taken
in on a limited basis and only if there is room at the
shelter or
in a foster home and only if the
animal is determined to be
healthy, friendly and adoptable by
shelter staff.
Examples include young
animals under eight weeks of age, mothers with litters,
animals that need ongoing medical treatment,
animals that are not doing well emotionally
in the
shelter,
animals who need socialization, and sometimes
healthy animals to free up kennel space
in the
shelter.
Best Friends has put together a coalition
in Los Angeles dedicated to ending the killing of
healthy and adoptable pets
in L.A. city
shelters, as well as programs to spay / neuter
animals, find homes for
shelter pets, and raise public awareness.
At any given time at the
animal shelter in my town, there are usually between two and ten
healthy guinea pigs waiting for adoption.
As a result of these cooperative working relationships, no
healthy animals are euthanized
in SDAWC
shelters.
All
healthy or treatable
animals are adopted or placed with other rescue groups or no - kill
shelters for adoption, and euthanasia is reserved only when medically necessary or when an
animal behaviorally is not safe
in the community.
Instead of wasting money on an endless cycle of impounding and killing
healthy cats
in shelters,
animal control officers and
shelter staff can focus on
animals in need.
Vets regularly check on the
shelter animals to make sure everyone is
healthy and that any
animal in need of medical attention is treated immediately.
If the
shelter is one of the old - style, ugly, concrete - block buildings located near the landfill or the railroad tracks,
in a bad part of town, with no thought given to disease control, then it will be harder to attract adopters and volunteers and harder to keep the
animals healthy.