Sentences with phrase «high shelter death»

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!).

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The group is dedicated to saving pooches from death row in high - kill shelters.

These high - volume, three - year programs focus on specific zip codes and / or neighborhoods (generally those known to be the source of highest shelter intake) in the community, and have proven highly successful at reducing both shelter intake and shelter deaths of cats and kittens.

These high medical costs can deter shelters and individuals from taking these animals in, thus leading to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of animals every year.

The problem is that there are so many breeding indiscriminately that we have millions sitting in shelters waiting to die a slow, agonizing death, including thousands of purebred dogs who are victims of the breeding industry, which produces many more dogs than there are owners willing to pay high prices for a dog.

Her goal is to eliminate the high amount of deaths among animals within shelters and to promote the spay / neuter programs that help to keep animals off of the streets where they are in danger of death.

We have saved many dogs from death row at high kill shelters.

Mahle is used to sleeping in his truck: Twice a month he leaves his wife and home in Zanesville, Ohio, to drive a familiar route through the Deep South, making stops in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to pick up dogs that have been removed from «death row» at high - kill shelters by local rescue groups.

Minnesota Spay Neuter Assistance Program (MN SNAP) exists to end the suffering and death of companion animals in Minnesota due to pet overpopulation by providing high - quality, affordable and accessible spay and neuter services to owned animals within low - income communities, animals within the rescue and shelter system, and feral cat communities.

Alternatively, adequately funded spay / neuter programs that target low - income communities have led to great success in reducing shelter populations and subsequent high death rates in cities in New Hampshire, Utah and California.

Nonetheless, Cabral now appears to be well on his way to joining Cesar Millan and Victoria Stilwell among the pantheon of dog trainers favored by shelter personnel and rescuers who insist on believing, against the weight of centuries of evidence and experience and soaring numbers of deaths and disfigurements inflicted by «rescued» dogs, that pit bulls in particular can be trained out of high reactivity and impulsive aggression, and can be made «safe» despite histories of dangerous behavior.

But as we as a nation make great strides in finding homes for dogs in need, our other companion animal, the cat, is still facing high death rates in shelters.

In other words, the risk of death is lower and the chance of adoption higher for cats on the streets than cats in the shelter.

On the other hand, I sometimes see numbers that are high enough for ORE or died / lost that they raise a question in my mind whether there was really nothing the shelter could do to prevent those deaths.

In fact, several studies have shown that even years of high - volume, low - cost sterilization within a community have less of an impact on shelter death rates than other programs of the No Kill Equation.

To our organization, this translates to helping those that we can save from certain death in high kill - rate shelters.

The death rate in ordinary shelters is unacceptably high 5.)

Marley's Mutts is a non-profit organization that rescues, rehabilitates, trains and re-homes death - row dogs from Kern County's high - kill animal shelters.

If you think about it, every animal who is in a high - kill shelter is sitting on death row.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.