Sentences with phrase «include public shelters»

There are entire swathes of the United States where shelters, including public shelters, have a shortage of adoptable dogs.

Not exact matches

The following counties have been declared for Public Assistance (Category B) including Direct Federal Assistance, as they are sheltering jurisdictions:

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.

In Chicago, the only public shelter that includes men is administered by Catholic Charities.

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.»

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

The Public Advocate noted that 50,000 New Yorkers, including children, presently live in homeless shelters, while many others have been displaced by soaring rents.

The mayor's announcement comes just after the City Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless shelters.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are conducting a sweeping investigation of environmental health and safety conditions, including cases of elevated blood lead levels, in public housing and homeless shelters and the possibility that the New York City housing and homeless agencies filed false claims to federal housing officials for payment related to the conditions.

It would require tampons and sanitary napkins be made available free in all public restrooms across the state, including fast - food restaurants, office buildings, homeless shelters, schools and government facilities.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

The shelters were opposed by many in the community, including community residents, City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, who vowed at a public meeting in January and subsequent discussions that they were working to make sure the five year contract did not move forward.

For sixteen years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations throughout the world, including Baltimore City Public School students, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools and other various venues throughout the nation and throughout the world.

Please consider joining the thousands of city workers, teachers and other volunteers who have helped with relief efforts, including at a number of the public schools in our region still being used as shelters.

Prior to joining the Foundation her experience included CEO, Executive Director and other leadership roles for both open and limited admission, public animal control and private shelters.

Part of our advocacy efforts includes educating the public on various aspects of living with dogs, with or without disabilities, to encourage adoption, especially of these ostracized breeds that are in great numbers in shelters everywhere due to overpopulation and the bans on pit bulls (read more about Breed - Specific Legislation and other BS discrimination).

The election on April 4 will ask voters in Kansas City a simple yes or no for Question 3, which would approve a general obligation bond package that includes the shelter and «Americans with Disabilities Act improvements to public buildings and structures.»

It is significant that the new law requires shelters «shall be open to the public after normal business hours, including evenings and weekends, to increase access for the purpose of adoption».

4203 - A requires shelters within 24 hours to take steps to (1) check animals for all currently possible forms of identification including, but not limited to, tags, microchips, tattoos or licenses; (2) make available to the public on the internet on a website or other public means if a website is not practical, at least during the redemption period, a photograph, if practicable, and a general description of the animal to assist the owner (s) in finding the animal, including the species, type, and breed (s), if known, though information about the animal may be withheld if deemed appropriate to facilitate finding the owner (s) or otherwise to protect the safety of the animal.

The puppies are sold either directly to the public via the Internet, newspaper ads, at the mill itself, or are sold to brokers and pet shops across the country.The documented problems of puppy mills include over breeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of socialization with humans, overcrowded cages, and the killing of unwanted animals.

These initiatives included hosting community discussions about local and regional cat overpopulation, celebrating the human - cat bond while raising public awareness about cat welfare, advocating for accessible spay / neuter services and advancing knowledge about best practices to improve outcomes for shelter cats.

Alley Cat Allies and a broad coalition of local residents and humane organizations — including caregivers, public health officials, and animal shelters — worked together over a period of years to build citywide support for Trap - Neuter - Return.

Collaboration and partnership defines the Best Friends Network, which includes more than 2,000 public and private animal shelters, rescue groups, spay / neuter organizations and other animal welfare groups across all 50 states.

While at school, she was lucky to participate in study abroad programs, taking courses including wildlife immobilization in South Africa, elephant and zoo medicine in Thailand, and public health and shelter medicine in Jordan.

Program related success includes: • Receivingfunding to purchase equipment for our veterinary clinic, thereby expanding services to both shelter and the public's animals.

Notify the public animal shelter that serves the locality where the companion animal was found and provide to the shelter contact information, including at least a name and a contact telephone number, a description of the animal, including information from any tag, license, collar, tattoo, or other identification * or markings, and the location where the companion animal was found.

Duties include cleaning dog kennels and cat cages, cleaning and restocking various areas of the shelter, administering routine medications, showing animals to the public and processing adoptions, and so on.

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At a public shelter in Bakersfield, a few dozen more animals were loaded, including a litter of 6 - week - old kittens bound for a rescue group outside of Portland.

This public shelter has limited resources and has grown from serving two cities in Pierce County to seven, including a city in King County.

The Saratoga County Animal Shelter offers various services to the public, including animal redemption, owner surrender, and free rabies clinics!

This duty may also include interacting with the public, especially if the shelter also allows for pet adoptions.

Our stand - alone shelter would also include a low - cost, high - quality spay / neuter clinic open to the public.

The Tracker image can be added to any pet listing on any web site, including your own site or any pet or shelter management software that updates your pets to public web sites.

Because of a shared mission of caring about animals and working together as a team, SEAACA collaborates with Adoption Partners that include but are not limited to adoption organization (some are breed specific); sheltering organizations (private and government); and Humane Foundations to place / transfer adoptable care center animals after they have been available for adoption by the general public.

NSR provides a variety of services to help small companion animals, including: rescue and foster Services for California shelters, public adoptions of small animals, behavioral advice, educational events, and more.

Camp activities may include crafts and games, guest speakers (for example, a police dog demonstration, a therapy dog animal, etc.), and service projects such as making beds, blankets, toys, or treats for shelter animals; decorating bandanas to spruce up shelter dogs; building bird feeders for wildlife; or designing posters or other materials to educate the public about issues regarding animal welfare.

New York should consider a bill that requires public shelters to work with qualified rescues, rescue and transport coordinators, with protocols for handling all animals including management and training for dogs with aggression or behavior issues.  Or New York should consider implementing upstate some voluntary, contractual arrangement such as Mayor's Alliance has with NYC shelters.

There will be a discussion on adding a wing to the animal control building when Osceola County Humane Society meets Thursday.Under discussion will be the need for a quarantine wing at the county shelter on Kissimmee Park Road.The panel of guest speakers will include Dr. David Andrix, Dr. Ric Austin, Dr. Bill Ackerman, a representative from the county animal control, Osceola County commissioners Jim Swan, Larry Whaley, Randy Sheive and Mike Bast.The meeting, open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in the Humane Society Bingo Hall, 127 Broadway, Kissimmee.

Working with federal agencies, state veterinary medical associations, local colleges of veterinary medicine, AVMA members, industry partners, shelters and the public, the AVMA has created a comprehensive resource on its website which includes emergency hotlines, links to grant applications, and the latest information on available shelters.

Initiatives underway include cracking down on puppy mills; providing humane education for more than 400,000 public school students; offering training programs for shelter staff, rescuers, law enforcement, FBI agents and animal control officers, and strengthening and enforcing existing animal cruelty laws.

And the problems also include cities and shelters that like Aurora and Denver, CO that choose to kill all dogs of certain breeds because they look like types of dogs they don't want in their city (regardless of the reality that their own statistics don't support their ideas to ban these dogs, nor do the dogs themselves, based on their actual behavior, pose any threat to the public).

Concerns over the shelter's unsanitary conditions — including mice and cockroach infestations and animals left to sit in blood, urine, and feces — as well as unsafe veterinary practices came to a head earlier this year with a large public outcry and demands for the shelter's director, Linda Estrada, and other board members to be terminated.

Alley Cat Allies has charted a course set on animal control and shelter industry reform and humane treatment through activities including: advocating for pounds and shelters to keep public records of animal intake and kill rates, for public and mandatory government oversight, and for increased pound and shelter accountability; mobilizing and educating the public and leading the national movement to end the killing of cats and to protect and improve their lives; and supporting the efforts of, and acting as the national voice for, thousands of individuals and groups across the U.S. who provide humane care for stray and feral cats.

There are many benefits to having a Community Cat Diversion program including reducing cat intake and euthanasia, increasing the save rate of cats that are admitted to the shelter, decreasing nuisance complaints, and improving public health.

each public or private animal shelter, humane organization, or animal control agency operated by a humane society or by a county, municipality, or other incorporated political subdivision prepare and maintain specified records; specifying the information that must be included in the records; providing a maximum fee for copies of such records; providing an effective date.

It seeks to rescue adoptable dogs and puppies from animal shelters and animal control facilities, rescue dogs and puppies from abusive and neglectful situations, including puppy mills and «backyard breeders», help educate the public on proper animal care and promote spaying and neutering of all pets, provide medical treatment for all animals in our care, provide foster homes for all animals in our care, and place rescued animals in permanent, loving homes.

Maddie's Fund, HSUS, the ASPCA, the Best Friends Animal Society, and the AVMA have since the Michael Vick case thrown their combined assets of more than $ 950 million behind pit bull advocacy, including overturning breed - specific legislation that protects the public and other animals, in hopes of reducing the numbers of pit bulls killed in animal shelters.

If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, off - site adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available.