Sentences with phrase «increased shelter costs»

These increased shelter costs make it far more difficult for homeowners to balance paying down their mortgage, while saving for retirement and managing day - to - day expenses, explains Rick Lunny, president and CEO of Manulife Bank of Canada.

Holding the animals beyond the four days only increases sheltering costs and takes up space in the shelter because the dogs are unlikely to be reclaimed, yet unavailable for transfer or adoption, and increases the likelihood of disease exposure.

Not exact matches

These will increase the adjusted cost base (ACB) of your property and could save you tax later if it turns out you can't fully shelter any gains on your property using the PRE.

The report found that shelter costs rose by close to six per cent this year to $ 76 a month because of soaring rents in Vancouver and «modest» increases in utilities and telephone expenses.

Obviously, shelter costs have also increased dramatically.

Shelter research found that two million households used credit cards to pay their housing costs in 2010, an increase of 50 % from the previous year.

De Blasio explained that more than two decades of rapid growth in housing costs, combined with slower growth in wages, had contributed to a 115 percent increase in the number of people living in city shelters from 1994 to 2014, when de Blasio took office.

PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has announced that the Department of Public Transportation recently retrofitted one of its bus shelters with solar panels and a light box designed to provide cost - efficient and reliable power, increased safety and improved delivery of customer information for its Transport of Rockland (TOR) and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) bus -LSB-...]

Filmed in the oil boom town Williston, North Dakota, The Overnighters tackles complex economic and spiritual questions surrounding a church that has opened its doors to shelter those who can't find work or afford increasing property costs.

It's an increase in the cost of things that are necessary for humans to live and enjoy life, such as bread, butter, milk, cheese, coffee, oil, shelter, clothing, medical services, chicken, electronics, etc..

Statistics Canada said higher shelter costs and food prices also increased the inflation rate, while costs for health and personal care declined.

The 2008 decision to begin enforcement of the Tulsa pet sterilization ordinance has also resulted in a decrease in intakes, and an increase in adoption costs have not reduced the number of animals leaving the shelter to go to new homes.

If city bylaws would forbid to the abandonment of an animal other than in a shelter and provide incentives to sterilize the animals, the costs of animal control service will continue to increase and the community will be penalized for their lack of vision.

The fund that pays to spay and neuter pets adopted through Lake County Animal Control has been wiped out.Money for the Animal Shelter Trust Fund set up in 1975 came from four large gifts from local animal lovers, but increased adoptions, and the rising cost of services has depleted the fund.The county is now dipping into general funds for spaying and neutering and is hoping for private donations.

To increase chances that a lost dog will get back home, Save Our Strays recommends low - cost community microchip identification programs with regional and national databases accessible to shelters, veterinarians, and the public.

In addition to increasing costs for the city, this new law will lead to more cats being killed in the local shelters and pounds where hundreds of cats are already killed.

Resources to care for cats with Upper Respiratory Infection (URI) increased, and due to positive changes in the URI treatment protocol, fewer cats were euthanized for URI, and more cats were treated at lower cost with a shorter shelter stay.

It also punishes lower - income households, where cost is typically the reason a cat has not been spayed or neutered, and may increase the number of cats relinquished to a shelter or abandoned due to inability to comply with the law.

By improving our veterinary medical areas, we will be able to better serve an increasing number of shelter pets with more complex needs while at the same time reducing the overall cost per pet.

When private organizations get involved with public animal shelters, private donations can often be leveraged to increase services at no extra cost to taxpayers.

Along the way, he raised millions of dollars to build and fund a veterinary hospital that provides low - cost sterilization services for pets and started dozens of programs to increase adoptions and help people keep their pets instead of surrendering them to the shelter.

Join with cat fanciers in promoting community programs to manage feral cats and to provide low cost neuter / spay, to educate the public on the nature of cats, to increase adoption rates and require sterilization of cats by shelters prior to adoption.

After Wagner and Dr. Kate Hurley, director of the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, discovered the correlation between increased housing space and a significant reduction in URI, the two also devised a simple solution — a PVC pipe that costs about $ 12.

Making changes as outlined has minimal impact on the shelter budget and any increases will be offset by reduced euthanasia costs and increased adoption fees.

We fund thousands of free or low - cost spay / neuter procedures for pets of low - income families in Los Angeles, and we offer adoption incentives to coalition partners to increase their adoptions of L.A. Animal Services shelter pets to good homes.

Program Manager of Grants and Adoptions for PetSmart Charities ®, met with Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, The Arizona Humane Society and Alliance for Companion Animals to announce the impact that the Fix.Adopt.Save program has on dramatically increasing the availability of no - cost spay / neuter services to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.

Rabies Clinics ASF partners with the Shelter each year to provide low - cost vaccinations and micro-chipping assistance, which reduces the number of pets relinquished to the Shelter for financial reasons an increases the chances that a lost pet can be returned to its home quickly and safely.

has focused on dramatically increasing the availability of low - cost and no - cost spay / neuter services to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.

Thanks to the campaign's focus on increasing spay and neuter surgeries by offering free and low - cost options, there has been a 15 % increase in spay / neuter surgeries which has helped decrease intake at alliance member shelters by 38 percent, about 32,000 animals.

Cat impoundments were increasing at the municipal San Jose animal shelter in 2009, despite long - term successful low cost sterilization programs and attempts to lower the euthanasia rate of treatable - rehabilitatable impounds beginning in 2008.

In 2009, the municipal animal shelter in San Jose, CA, was seeing the number of cats coming into the facility increasing even though they had a longstanding low cost spay / neuter program.

To increase chances that a lost dog or cat will get back home, Save Our Strays recommends low - cost community microchip identification programs with regional and national databases accessible to shelters, veterinarians, and the public.

It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.

In communities where laws have mandated spay / neuter regardless of breed, there has been an increase in shelter intake of animals, not a decrease, and substantial increase in animal control costs.

Take Los Angeles: Â For several years before a mandatory spay / neuter law took effect in 2008, shelter intake and euthanasia rates were declining likely because of increased access to free or low cost spay / neuter.

In addition, HB 515 establishes a holding period for both stray animals and those surrendered by their families, it gives the person surrendering the animal the ability to change their mind and reclaim the animal, it bifurcates the holding period to incentivize adoptions and rescue transfers, it allows «shelters» to transfer animals to rescue groups right away to free up cage and kennel space thus reducing costs while increasing lifesaving, it mandates prompt and necessary care and environmental enrichment, and for those who are irremediably suffering, rigorously defined, it puts in place a mechanism to end their lives in as kind and compassionate a manner as possible and one that meets the dictionary definition for «euthanasia.»

As a result of a provision similar to CAPA mandating that shelters must transfer animals they are planning to kill to other non-profits which want to save them, the number of animals transferred to rescue groups rather than killed in California went from 12,526 to 58,939 — a 370 % increase, all at no cost to taxpayers.

No - kill shelters are trying to end this killing by increasing the demand for shelter dogs and cats and reducing the supply by reducing the number of animals born and thus the number of animals which end up in shelters, and through increased spay / neuter, including low - cost / free help for low - income people.

We work with our shelter and rescue organization partners by providing access to quality, low - cost spay / neuter services and by organizing events to help increase their adoption rates.

Attendees were also at the rally at the Capitol in support of 2 other bills pending in the Pennsylvania legislature: H.B. 499 which would increase fines for cruelty to animals and also require owners of dogs seized in these cases to pay the costs of sheltering and care of the animal and failure to do so can mean the animal is deemed abandoned.

Many shelters find they can recoup the costs of fee - waived adoptions by increasing fees for animals who are in high demand, like puppies and kittens.

Greco acknowledged the support of the county freeholders and administration as the shelter faced an uncertain future with increased costs due to recent court rulings and health code changes.

We will dramatically increase low - cost and free spay / neuter services available in targeted areas as we strive to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.

For comparison, the Cape May County Animal Shelter in Cape May Court House, serving the number of animals the CCSPCA receives just from Vineland, has a basic operating budget of about $ 750,000, which does not include additional costs such as building maintenance and legal fees.Public demands and shelter standards are increasing the level of animaShelter in Cape May Court House, serving the number of animals the CCSPCA receives just from Vineland, has a basic operating budget of about $ 750,000, which does not include additional costs such as building maintenance and legal fees.Public demands and shelter standards are increasing the level of animashelter standards are increasing the level of animal care.

What's more, increased access to low - cost spay / neuter clinics has helped Canadians reduce the amount of unwanted litters arriving in shelters.

A pit bull ban means additional animal control workers for identification and enforcement and litigation, sheltering, vet care and other costs of care for restricted breeds that have been impounded and must be held pending hearings; less in licensing fees as owners decline to register restricted breeds for fear of not being able to afford or follow through on restrictions; an increase in restricted breeds in shelters in surrounding communities, less shelter and resources for other animals that are euthanized.

So while there is a lot of consensus that targeted, voluntary, low cost spay / neuter programs are effective in gaining spay / neuter compliance — and a large trackrecord of success, However, taking the next step to mandating the law is only a recipe to increase impounds, and thus, shelter killing.

Baltimore County hasn't announced any formal plans to do that (maybe it's not too late to work that in), but the county executive did outline future steps to add more employees, expand low - cost spaying and neutering services, cooperate with a program aimed at neutering feral cats and increase the shelter's focus on getting animals adopted.

Indeed, mandating spay and neuter for owned pets can have the unintended consequences of increasing shelter intake and impeding the return of strays to their owners when the costs associated with spay and neuter are prohibitive.

Officials estimated Mount Agung's increasing activity had cost Bali at least $ 110 million from the hit to the tourism sector and loss of productivity while villagers were staying at shelters.