Sentences with phrase «higher than shelter»

Adoption fees are often higher than a shelter, but often include vet care that would cost more if you paid the vet yourself.

I read and understand why your fees are much higher than shelter dogs.

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This is also the reason why people in larger cities and areas near the coast have higher intelligence levels than those inland (sheltered from free thought and inquiry).

Yet, the «instinct,» if we want to use that word, is of a higher order than mere cravings, which Gopnik glosses over when he compares the impetus to read to our need for clothing and shelter: «there really are no whys to such things, anymore than there are to why we wear clothes or paint good pictures or live in more than hovels and huts or send flowers to our beloved on their birthday.»

With New York City's homeless population in shelters at a record high of 50,000, a growing number of people living there are actually working — sometimes more than one job — but still can't afford a place of their own.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

Two local towns — Oyster Bay and Shelter Island — and 20 villages adopted tax increases that are higher than the tax cap, according to data from the state comptroller's office.

Of these, a high proportion are so - called command - and - control genes that help bacteria decide whether to form colonies or to continue seeking better shelter, possibly making Pseudomonas «smarter» than other bacteria.

In many states, the new Common Core - aligned tests of reading and math that have recently reported student and school results from 2014 - 15 have set a higher bar than ever before, and — if accurately and honestly reported to parents — should go a long way to deflating the «proficiency illusion» under which many schools have sheltered.

Using money from outside the retirement account to pay tax on the conversion effectively increases the amount of money sheltered from tax, and over a long enough period the benefit of this added sheltering outweighs the detriment of paying conversion tax at a higher rate than the anticipated withdrawal rate.

Contributions to those accounts (401K, IRA and RRSP) not only allow you to deduct from your taxable income and generate higher returns during tax season but also the funds sitting in those vehicles will compound extremely faster than normal investing accounts as the dividends and capital gains are sheltered from taxes.

Given most of their retirement savings are in tax sheltered accounts Feigs projects their savings may actually be 10 % higher than Derek estimated when they plan to retire.

More than 90 men donned red high heels and walked a full mile along a downtown route to raise funds and awareness for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation and Fredericton's Women In Transition House.

So if the goal is to shift the most potential growth into tax - sheltered accounts, an RRSP looks like a better home for high - growth stocks than low - yielding fixed income.

1) Start saving early by setting realistic goals 2) Ensure the asset allocation in your portfolio remains in sync with your level of risk aversion and overall investment objectives 3) Keep costs and taxes to a minimum by avoiding most high turnover actively managed mutual funds and opting for tax - deferred savings whenever possible (not only do their investments grow tax - sheltered but for most people their MTR at retirement would be lower than it is during their working years) 4) Balance your portfolio at least annually (some individuals may choose to do so semi-annually) 5) Hammer away at your debt first — for example, when it comes to contributing to an RRSP or TFSA vs. paying down your mortgage, ideally you should do both.

Because the 39.6 percent top rate under the regular income tax is higher than the 28 percent top statutory AMT rate, households with very high incomes who do not attempt to shelter much income typically pay based on the regular income tax system.

Our Scholars Helping Collars scholarship, which was set up to encourage high school students to demonstrate passion for animals and help for shelters, has seen more than four times the number of entries compared to last year.

Wings of Rescue has saved more than 24,000 animals from high - kill shelters in Southern California, Oklahoma, and Louisiana by transporting them to the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana) as well as making occasional flights from Los Angeles to New York.

On entering the shelter, cortisol is higher on Day 1 than in pets at home.

While it is true that euthanasia is a fact of animal pound and shelter operations in Victoria, the question this audit is answering is not whether euthanasia is ever appropriate, but whether the LDH kill rate is higher than acceptable, measured against similar organisations.

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.

According to their website, Special Ones is an independent rescue in Oakville, Ontario, working mainly with cats rescued from high volume shelters, cats that more often than not have been slated for termination.

Sadly, many shelters are really high - kill animal control (rather than animal welfare) operations that see their role as largely garbage disposal and don't see beyond that.

However, in 2002, the shelter received a higher number of animals than 2003 because of drought conditions, she said.

Could someone tell me why the purina healthy morsels is the only food my 12 months old dogo argentino would digest perfectly??? Everywhere I look on the web, it's all lowest ratings, horrible stories and such but case is that after trying to have her on high (er) quality products like Blue Buffalo, INNOVA, Solid Gold, I experimented having her back on Purina (the first food she had when I got her from the shelter 8 months ago) and then it's all perfect stools, shiny coat, WAY less shedding than with the aforementioned seemingly «better» kibbles (which would all, with no exception, give her gas, loose stools, bad breath, crazy shedding)...?

The main factors that drive morale (your supervisor, peers, the work itself, communications, opportunities to advance and cross-departmental relationships) aren't different in shelters than any other workplace, but what's unique in shelters is the high stress coupled with passion, he says.

Unfortunately in the Oakland area we have a high population of pit bulls and their chances in shelters are lower than that of other breeds.

In 2012, the new grant program will help 65 non-profit spay / neuter clinics around the nation provide high - quality, affordable spay / neuter surgeries for more than 23,000 cats and pit bull terriers during February and August — ultimately reducing the homeless pet population by tens of thousands of at - risk cats and dogs that would otherwise wind up in shelters because of unplanned litters, said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of

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.

It's hard for us to believe that there are shelters that can adopt out more animals than what they take in from their own areas, but sure enough, we have been sending dogs, cats and kittens to high volume adoption facilities from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts.

This means that animals purchased from pet stores have a higher risk of health problems than those adopted from a shelter or bought from a licensed breeder.

These fees help to provide care for the other animals in the shelter or rescue group who may have medical bills that are much higher than any possible adoption fee.

They took over operations in January 2012, and in just six months, transformed the high - kill shelter into one that was saving more than 90 % of the animals in their care.

Either way, few shelters are burdened with extra money or space — «right sizing» the adoption population allows investment in the number of high quality housing units that will serve the population optimally and no more than this number.

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.

Also remember, if 7 - 10 days seems much longer than the current length of stay at your shelter, that may reflect the fact that the number of animals in the shelter at one time may be higher than the recommended ADC.

3) Some Positive Pit Bull Press — KC Pet Project, like a lot of urban shelters, has a fairly high percentage of dogs that enter our shelter that are pit bull type dogs (our numbers are lower than many others).

One quick note on the numbers: In 2009, 2010 and the first half of 2011 the operators of the shelter logged all rescue transfers to non-brick-and-mortar rescues as «adoptions» instead of «transfers» - so many of the «transfer» numbers for those years are much lower than they should be and «adoption» numbers are much higher.

No significant difference was found in stress scores between cats from single - cat households and those from multiple - cat households, although single cats that had been in the shelter less than 4 days demonstrated higher stress levels.

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.

Now, we can work with our partner shelters on a weekly basis rather than the struggle and high cost of a monthly transport.

Founded by Dr. Julie Levy, director of the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, the trap - neuter - return (TNR) program known as Operation Catnip has been running free high - quality, high - volume spay / neuter clinics for community cats in Gainesville for more than 16 years.

Thanks to the generosity of caring donors around the world, Angels Among Us Pet Rescue (AAUPR) has saved more than 13,000 dogs and cats from high - kill shelters throughout the greater - Atlanta area.

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).

• Never keeps more dogs than they can provide with the highest level of care, including quality food, clean water, proper shelter from heat or cold, exercise, socialization and professional veterinary care.

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.

Sherlock, the Samoyed / Great Pyrenees mix, was housed at a high - kill shelter in rural Tennessee and was scheduled for euthanasia in fewer than 24 hours.

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.

She was and still is «flipping dogs», getting them from shelters than charging high «adoption» fees!

Because the mites are transmitted from animal to animal, pets that spend time in shelters, kennels, dog parks, groomers, and clinics have a higher risk of infection than other pets.