Sentences with phrase «high kill shelters because»

We have seen a number of stories this week about people dying and their living family members turned their pets into high kill shelters because either couldn't keep them or they didn't want them.

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Recently, there was a pure bred puppy in a high kill shelter here and «rescues» were fighting over her, when a friend inquired about adopting the dog she asked about the adoption fee the rescue said it depended on certain things and that once the dog was evaluated they would come up with a fee, so my friend asked if they had set fees and they responded no, because some dogs deserve a higher fee.

Because of those policies, owners often are referred down the road to a high - kill shelter, or pets are let loose to fend for themselves, according to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Because they were «owner surrenders», they were at the top of the list to be euthanized at the high - kill shelter that is very often beyond full capacity.

The task seems difficult because the communities that still have high - kill shelters are so lacking in infrastructure and resources.

The shelter went from being a high - kill facility to having its first two no - kill weeks overnight - and in fact, started pulling animals from other shelters because they weren't able to keep up with the demand.

Austin became a No Kill City because of a mixture of stable baseline programs already in existence, political and public awareness of high shelter death, and good, old - fashioned hard work creating new programs (Austin Pets Alive!).

The majority of the dogs we foster are pulled from high - kill shelters and we are asked to take them because they are deemed «unadoptable» for a variety of reasons - illness, injury, because they are scared, and unfortunately, because of their breed.

Second, I feel that counting ending inventory in the «save» category (as the NKAC calculation requires) is misleading in the case of high - kill shelters, because most of those animals are not «saved» and will soon be killed.

Even if your chosen dog is not at risk of euthanasia, (either because you are supporting a no - kill shelter or because of other reasons like high adoptability), you are making room for another dog to find their forever home in that shelter.

She is sitting in a high kill shelter with a bad injury and break of her left leg; a tough rescue because orthopedic surgeries are so expensive.

Because our animals usually start off with a medical bill and period of recovery and rehabilitation, and because we are a true no - kill shelter, our operating costs are much higher than other shBecause our animals usually start off with a medical bill and period of recovery and rehabilitation, and because we are a true no - kill shelter, our operating costs are much higher than other shbecause we are a true no - kill shelter, our operating costs are much higher than other shelters.

At Animal House Rescue, we get a lot of our dogs from high - kill shelters, but we're also getting a lot of owner surrenders, usually because people are moving and can't take their pets with them, or they've had some financial difficulty and they can't afford their pets anymore.