Sentences with phrase «homeless cats and dogs enter»

Every year 180,000 homeless cats and dogs enter Canadian shelters.

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Every year in Philadelphia, nearly 30,000 homeless, abandoned, and unwanted dogs and cats enter the city's animal control shelter.

There are an estimated 70 million homeless cats and dogs living in the U.S. Six to eight million animals enter the U.S. shelter system each year, mostly after being surrendered by their families or picked up on the streets by animal control authorities.

• Total number of nationwide animal shelters 5,000 • Number of companion animals that enter into animal shelters nationwide annually 5 million • Average annual number of companion animals that are euthinized at shelters 3.5 million • Percent of dogs in animals shelters that are euthanized 60 % • Percent of cats in animal shelters that are euthanized 70 % • Percent of cats that are returned to their owners 2 % • Percent of dogs returned to their owners 15 % • Total percentage of dogs claimed to be spayed or neutered 78 % • Total percentage of cats that are claimed to be spayed or neutered 88 % • Total number of animals that end up in a shelter that are spayed or neutered 10 % • Percent of dogs brought to shelters that were adopted by a shelter 20 % • Percent of dogs and cats that are adopted from shelters 25 % • Total number of dogs and cats that are bought at pet stores 6 % • Percentage of people that get their pets free or at low cost 65 % • Cost of taxpayer money annually to round up, house, kill and dispose of homeless animals $ 2 billion • Total percentage of dogs in shelters that are purebred 25 % • Total percentage of U.S. homes who own at least 1 companion animal 63 % • Total number of homes that own at least 1 companion animal 70 million • Tags:

Founded in 2001, First Coast No More Homeless Pets started with developing spay / neuter programs targeted to decrease the number of dogs and cats entering local shelters.

Redemption, the definitive book on animal sheltering in the United States, offers the formula to end the killing of up to 5 million homeless dogs and cats who enter U.S. shelters every year.

Through our four main programs; Low - Cost Spay / Neuter, Low - Income Pet Food Assistance, Foster / Adoption, Feral Cat Trap / Neuter / Return and our Humane Education and Re-Homing Assistance programs, we believe we are delivering an important public service that prevents dogs and cats from becoming homeless and entering the very costly shelter system.

Still the result is homeless animals that have to be euthanized because there are more dogs and cats entering shelters than there are people willing to provide them with loving care.

In her first few years as Director of Animal Services at WCRAS, she strategized and began implementing programs focused on making sure the homeless cats and dogs that entered her shelter would make it out alive.

Buying pets promotes the breeding of even more dogs and cats — sometimes under cruel and painful conditions, such as found in puppy mills — at a time when nearly 29,000 homeless pets enter our city shelters each year.

In 2015, we helped to prevent many unwanted litters of cats, dogs, and rabbits; as a result, we reduced the number of homeless pets entering local shelters, as well as the number of feral cats residing in our neighborhoods.