Sentences with phrase «including shelter euthanasia»
We believe that addressing puppy mill cruelty is essential to alleviating many of the other problems in the animal welfare community, including shelter euthanasia rates, animal abandonment, and owner relinquishment.
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Contributing factors to pet euthanasia rates at overcrowded U.S. shelters include irresponsible breeding, pets not being spayed or neutered, pet homelessness, and surrendering because a person can no longer afford to care for a pet.
Adoptable animals who are at risk of euthanasia, or are languishing in limited - admission shelters who are struggling to adopt them out, will be transferred on set days every week from those facilities to the Rescue Center, where they will receive medical attention, safe housing, and proper care while awaiting weekly transport to approved Northern rescues (including Felines & Canines).
When many of us hear about cat overpopulation, we picture an overabundance of cats in animal shelters and not enough families to adopt them — a situation that can have tragic consequences, including the risk of euthanasia.
By creating standardized reporting and definitions for shelter statistics including intake, adoptions, return - to - owner, transfers, euthanasia and shelter deaths, we will increase live outcomes.
Funding from Grey Muzzle helps Compassion Without Borders expand their rescue missions to include senior dogs, saving the lives of older dogs that would otherwise face certain euthanasia or hardship in overcrowded shelters.
He has worked professionally in animal welfare for over a decade, serving in a variety of roles including Animal Control Officer, Euthanasia Technician, Kennel Supervisor, Shelter Manager, and Director of Operations.
In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.
With FCRC, Felines & Canines will be able to pull animals from facilities with high euthanasia rates and get them cared for and ready for transport to receiving rescues (their Chicago shelter included).
Through a combination of efforts, including understanding our capacity for care and helping pet owners avoid shelter surrender, we can help reduce euthanasia not only in Pinellas County, but nationwide.
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As you'll read in this issue, we continued in 2010 to reduce euthanasia at Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) thanks to the dedicated efforts of the rescue groups and shelters that participate in the Mayor's Alliance, including AC&C.
Must be able to handle the emotional aspect of work in an animal shelter environment, including the use of euthanasia
Reducing shelter euthanasia requires all players including breeders, the AKC, veterinarians (some who charge exorbitant fees resulting in a surrendered pet), puppy mills — all need to have some skin in the game to achieve a zero - sum outcome for shelters.
Since the inception of Target Zero in 2013, several animal shelters, including ones in Jacksonville, Fla. and San Jose, Calif., have reduced their euthanasia rates close to the program's goal of 10 percent.
It is only with all of us working together that we can put an end to euthanasia for cats in shelters, including MADACC.
Euthanasia for senior residents is the primary option for most local shelters because they tend to focus their efforts on a high adoption model that includes younger «more adoptable» animals.
Our volunteers rescue small breed dogs from desperate situations including neglect, puppy mill rescue, owner surrender, and euthanasia by animal shelters due to overpopulation.
OUR MISSION is to provide professional, low - cost spay / neuter services to end the euthanasia of healthy and treatable homeless cats and dogs in shelters in the Greater Cincinnati area, including surrounding counties in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana.
The data do not include cats dead on arrival, cats with owner euthanasia requests, or cats that naturally died in the shelter.
In CY 2009, the San Jose shelter euthanized 8,466 cats, including 252 owner requested euthanasia.
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.
In 2012, the program was expanded to include a reactive «shelter - neuter - return» program targeting the cats most at risk of immediate euthanasia: adult impounded strays.
The euthanasia rate does not include those cats who died of natural causes while in the shelter, which is 1 % or less annually.
These strategies can virtually eliminate both shelter crowding and euthanasia of healthy cats, and include spay / neuter / return programs and scheduled / managed intake to shelters.
A release / surrender form should be signed by the owner, shelter staff or animal control officer giving the rescue full ownership and the ability to make decisions regarding the dogs future including the right of euthanasia (see Surrender Agreement, Stray / Shelter Dog Surrender Agreement, and Release and Indemnity Agreshelter staff or animal control officer giving the rescue full ownership and the ability to make decisions regarding the dogs future including the right of euthanasia (see Surrender Agreement, Stray / Shelter Dog Surrender Agreement, and Release and Indemnity AgreShelter Dog Surrender Agreement, and Release and Indemnity Agreement).
Philadelphia shelters have a very high euthanasia rate due to overcrowding — during spring / summer, about 70 % of surrendered cats and kittens never leave the shelter, including pets surrendered by former owners.
Petaluma, CA — North Bay Canine Rescue — Dedicated to rescuing dogs from crisis situations, some of which include euthanasia by animal shelters, neglect and other forms of abuse, or «free to a good home» ads, which result in dogs being bounced from one home to another, or being acquired by animal brokers («bunchers») and sold to research laboratories where they are used for testing, then discarded («cruelty industries»).
I do not include lost / died in shelter care or owner - requested euthanasia in calculating the live release rate, but instead will note separately if those numbers appear unusually high.
Some of these situations include euthanasia by animal shelters, neglect and other forms of abuse, potential use in research laboratory testing, or use as bait for the training of fighting dogs.
If we include the categories of Owner Requested Euthanasia (ORE) and Died or Lost in Shelter Care in with the euthanasias, the shelter's 2012 rate waShelter Care in with the euthanasias, the shelter's 2012 rate washelter's 2012 rate was 92 %.
Some people don't like the LRR because it does not include Owner Requested Euthanasia (ORE) or the category of Died / Lost in Shelter Care)(died / lost).
My interview with Auerbach touched on many issues that she cares about that we did not have time to discuss in depth, including the effect on shelter workers of carrying out euthanasia decisions, the need to attract and retain leaders in sheltering, and the importance of expanding the focus of sheltering to include animals outside the shelter.
Ability to handle the physical and emotional aspect of work in an animal shelter environment, including the use of euthanasia.
Those new measures required each county to have access to a shelter and animal - control officer, and set out standards that include protection from the weather; basic veterinary care or humane euthanasia for ill or injured animals; adequate heat in winter; clean and dry pens with adequate room for animal comfort; construction with materials that can be properly cleaned and disinfected; available clean water; uncontaminated food provided daily; and public access to the facility.
The team, which will include the shelter veterinarian and two key staff members, will make all euthanasia decisions.
Euthanasia by injection (EBI), using a lethal dose of a barbituate, emerged in the 1960s; today, all major animal welfare organizations, including The HSUS, National Animal Care & Control Association and Association of Shelter Veterinarians, as well as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recognize it as the most humane form of eEuthanasia by injection (EBI), using a lethal dose of a barbituate, emerged in the 1960s; today, all major animal welfare organizations, including The HSUS, National Animal Care & Control Association and Association of Shelter Veterinarians, as well as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recognize it as the most humane form of euthanasiaeuthanasia.
Last year, through the efforts of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and its 160 - plus participating shelters and rescue groups (including AC&C), euthanasia at AC&C shelters was reduced to 33 percent, representing a 57 - percent decrease in euthanasia since 2003, the first year of operation for the Mayor's Alliance.
These programs include providing humane education in local schools with an emphasis on spay / neuter, hosting mobile shelter adoptions, and rescuing animals that have been abused, neglected and / or are at risk of euthanasia.»
Animals already in the sheltering system are those most at risk for euthanasia, and they are at risk for many reasons, including:
As noted above, while these efforts often include measures that expand public «access» to animals in shelters, e.g., requiring shelters to release animals to almost any person or organization, «shelter access» legislation may encompass other strategies as well, including measures that directly prohibit euthanasia or impose additional administrative barriers or requirements on animal shelters and their staff related to euthanasia decisions.
These members include over 25 different shelters and organizations who are dedicated to reducing euthanasia rates and increasing live outcomes.
In order to assure the efficacy of any spay / neuter program designed to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia, the ASPCA believes that each community must conduct credible research into the particular causes of relinquishment and abandonment and the sources of animals in its shelters, including the barriers to spay / neuter services that are faced by those populations contributing disproportionately to the problem.