Sentences with phrase «high shelter intake»

FOTAS addresses the cause of high Shelter intake: rampant overpopulation of dogs and cats.

When you see high shelter intake relative to the human population and a low reclaim rate, you are probably in a place where the residents don't have the resources to keep their pets off the street and safely at home, or the resources to look for them when they disappear.

This study, conducted in Portland, Oregon, relied on the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to precisely and scientifically identify an intervention area (with high shelter intake) and to identify control areas to compare the project results with community - wide trends.

This research expands on previous studies by first relying on the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to precisely and scientifically identify an appropriate intervention area with high shelter intake.

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.

Puppy mills do play a large role in perpetuating the cycle of high shelter intakes and euthanasia rates, and they are easy to speak out against because of their clearly inhumane conditions, but they are not the only problem.

Not exact matches

Besides guzzling water like a high school wrestler, there are some other precautions you can take to help prevent dehydration when pregnant, like staying away from caffeine, taking shady shelter on hot days, and upping water intake on exercise days.

«In addition, shelters anticipate higher poultry intakes, particularly as unwanted birds are turned loose to become strays.»

New to Tulsa this year, the concept of transporting animals from an overburdened shelter to one with high adoption rates and lower local intake numbers is not unique.

Our partners at the Friends of the Verona Street Animal Shelter (d / b / a Verona Street Animal Society) have a foster program for our animals with special needs or to extend the walls of the shelter during periods of high Shelter (d / b / a Verona Street Animal Society) have a foster program for our animals with special needs or to extend the walls of the shelter during periods of high shelter during periods of high intake.

Arnold was rescued by Tickled Pink Weimaraner Rescue (TPWR) from a high - kill shelter in New Mexico, where he had been a stray intake without any known prior history; a volunteer from our NM chapter (and not Mr. Garay as he has claimed) pulled Arnold from the shelter.

Started in May of 2016, the shelter's Community Action Team, abbreviated as CAT Team, targets high animal intake areas within Orange County.

HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA — January 15, 2018 — Cat's Cradle of the Shenandoah Valley today announced it has received a $ 32,000 grant from PetSmart Charities, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America, to help fuel its spay and neuter efforts in select zip codes in Augusta County, representing high intake zip codes for cats into the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center, the county's public intake shelter.

While the focus remains on saving dogs from California's high - intake shelters, some of the dogs come into rescue as owner surrenders or homeless strays.

The animals served by the Spay Shuttle are those that have been identified as being at highest risk for reproduction and then admission to the shelter, based upon breed, age and residence within high - intake neighborhoods in Knoxville and Knox County.

Around 100 students each year at the Felix Varela Senior High School get to participate in training and caring for dogs from Miami Dade Animal Services, a large, open - intake shelter.

There are the surplus animals in shelters struggling with high intake numbers and euthanasia.

Finally, the intervention itself was designed and implemented in a much broader and comprehensive way beyond just spay / neuter to prevent intake by seeking numerous paths to engage pet owners and reduce shelter intake of cats and Pit Bull type dogs (who are at high risk for longer shelter stays and euthanasia compared to other dogs).

But while the extremely high intake of animals makes for challenging times at the Shelter, there are many ways you can help, including:

It's a matter of faith that spay / neuter programs will lead to reduced shelter intake and a higher rate of lifesaving in a community.

When targeted and large enough scale, TNR also decreases shelter intake in areas of high cat density.

The research team tracked stress scores and recorded food intake for the first 7 days of shelter stay and found that stress and food intake were highly correlated: cats that had high stress scores tended not to eat very well.

Many cats had higher stress scores for their first few days in the shelter, but when stress scores decreased, their food intake rose.

The shelter has a high intake rate, and transporting animals opened up space.

In 2017 Camden County Animal Shelter became the leading animal welfare agency in the region with the largest intake and highest save rate in the region.

For shelters transferring in animals from very high risk locations / source shelters, intake quarantine may be justified to avoid animals breaking with severe illness on the adoption floor or after adoption.

Shelter intake is thought to have been static in the U.S. as a whole since around the year 2000, but Michigan demonstrates that there is still more to be gained, at least in some places, by low - cost, high - volume spay / neuter programs.

Clearly, high - impact targeted TNR combined with the adoption of socialized cats and nuisance resolution counseling for residents is an effective tool for reducing shelter cat intake (Levy et al., 2014).

Roughly half of shelter intake on average is owner surrenders, and some pet retention programs have claimed high rates of success.

Effect of high - impact targeted trap - neuter - return and adoption of community cats on cat intake to a shelter.

After two years, per capita shelter intake was 3.5 times higher and per capita shelter euthanasia was 17.5 times higher in the nontarget area than in the target area.

Though they have been trying very hard to place her, like every shelter animal, high intake numbers mean that dogs like Zoe have a very small window during the week to stretch their legs, get much needed playtime or roll on a sunny patch of grass.

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.

The total capacity for cats of all U.S. shelters and sanctuaries combined ---- which is higher now than ever before, but includes many facilities that are unsuitable for longterm holding ---- is still less than 25 % of annual shelter intake of cats, now lower than at any time since 1950.

Our nation's best defense against all of the sources of shelter intake is targeted, aggressive, high - volume, high - quality, low - cost sterilization.

Wings of Rescue in conjunction with our partners the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the Greater Good, and Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team (PART) flew 200 dogs and cats from the high intake Santuario Canita Shelter, Humane Society of Puerto Rico and San Juan Animal Protection and Adoption to Fort Lauderdale Florida where they were transferred to the Humane Society of Broward County, Sarasota Humane Society and other no kill shelters throughout the eastern seaboard.

They are a high intake, high kill shelter.

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.

The results of the ARIMA (1,0,1) projections indicated a higher - than - expected cat intake to shelters in Santa Clara County during the years when the voucher program was in effect, i.e., 1994 — 2005 (Fig. 5).

Ultimately, although there are benefits to adopting a senior dog from a group that can provide your future dog with high - level evaluation and care prior to adoption and support for the adoption after, the senior dog that is the best match for you and your family is just as likely to be found at an open - intake shelter as at a senior rescue.

What the Spay Shuttle does, however, is allows us to get our service closer to certain communities where we know the shelter's intake is higher, or where we feel transportation could be a barrier to families accessing our program.

In communities with high populations of senior citizens, says Shever, pets outliving their owners can make up half a shelter's intakes.

We rescue animals in risk of being euthanized in high kill shelters and intake surrendered animals based on foster home availability.

Lulu was saved from a high intake shelter.

Yet despite all of our proactive efforts to care for these animals and to support the spay / neuter of community cats and pets for citizens in need (no one dedicates more resources to spay / neuter than FOTAS and the County combined), intake at the Shelter remains alarmingly, shockingly high.

Yes, but until everyone in the county spays and neuters their cats, and the shockingly high intake numbers at the shelter come down, we need more people like you to commit time and resources to the 4,700 abandoned, homeless, abused and neglected animals that pass through the Shelter doors evershelter come down, we need more people like you to commit time and resources to the 4,700 abandoned, homeless, abused and neglected animals that pass through the Shelter doors everShelter doors every year.

Sacramento, CA, also identified an area of high intake and completed a one - year intervention project focused on reducing shelter intake of cats and dogs.

The ASPCA Spay / Neuter Alliance, in conjunction with animal control officers and volunteers, distributed free spay / neuter vouchers to neighborhoods where shelter intake of animals was the highest.

Shelter intake may be high relative to the human population due to a lack of high - volume spay - neuter capability.

According to LifeLine Animal Project CEO Rebecca Guinn, National Dog Day is a great time to adopt a dog, because shelters typically have the highest intake of dogs during the summer.