Sentences with phrase «increasing shelter euthanasia»

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The shelter has ventilation issues and no quarantine area, which causes sickness, and ultimately leads to increased euthanasia rates.
The core strategy of the campaign focuses on five key initiatives that offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and to increase live outcomes for shelter cats.
Our goal is to assist these organizations in their mission to: * Increase the number of animals spayed / neutered * Increase the adoption rate of homeless animals * Decrease the euthanasia rate at local animal shelters
It is our position that through judicious TNR and implementation of SNR, we can stabilize cat populations, increase overall cat health and indirectly human health, and also reduce shelter intake and needless euthanasia of endless cats through alternative approaches.
As the managing organization for DeKalb County Animal Services and Fulton County Animal Services, LifeLine has dramatically increased adoption rates and decreased euthanasia rates by more than half at both shelters.
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.
Increase adoption rates, keep animals together with their owners, and reduce euthanasia rates for your shelter using this easy to use service.
This information will be updated annually with the ultimate one million mark being based on an overall reduction in euthanasia and increase in lives saved by the participating shelters.
Striving to decrease our shelter intake, increase our live release rates and to reserve euthanasia for animals that have serious medical conditions with great suffering, or behavior issues that pose a threat to the public's health and safety and the animal's well - being.
More animal control agencies and shelters have begun to embrace humane changes that decrease intake numbers, decrease euthanasia rates, and increase live releases.
Over the past three years, this coordinated effort has resulted in a 27 percent increase in the number of spay / neuter surgeries performed; which in turn has resulted in a 39 percent decrease in shelter intake and euthanasia rates have plummeted by 79 percent.
The mission of Copper's Dream is to help end the euthanasia of adoptable dogs in the U.S. through increasing public awareness, taking legal action benefiting shelter animals, and by rescuing dogs scheduled for euthanasia and placing them in permanent and loving homes.
This course will train and certify personnel in the various euthanasia techniques; instruct personnel in the physiology of euthanasia; promote the concepts of compassion and humaneness in euthanasia for shelter animals; teach participants how to recognize and deal with your personal euthanasia related stress increase professionalism within the animal welfare field; and provide a valid certification program as required by SC State law for euthanasia technicians.
I learned so much about the need for increased promotion of shelter dogs, especially those at kill - shelters like AC&C, where the euthanasia rates are simply too high.
Miami Dade Animal Services ignores the problem because if they picked up these dogs, it would increase their euthanasia rate and they can't brag that they are a no - kill shelter.
Copper's Dream The mission of Copper's Dream is to help end the euthanasia of adoptable dogs in the U.S. through increasing public awareness, taking legal action benefiting shelter animals, and by rescuing dogs scheduled for euthanasia and placing them in permanent and loving homes.
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.
As the number of cats we care for has increased, shelter intakes and euthanasia have both declined.
TNR's most measurable effect is that fewer cats / kittens flow through animal shelters, resulting in lower euthanasia rates and increased adoptions of shelter cats.
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.
has focused on dramatically increasing the availability of low - cost and no - cost spay / neuter services to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.
During the 2012 Michigan Humane Lobby Day, more than 75 citizens from across Michigan met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to pass legislation to ban the euthanasia of shelter animals by gas chamber, increase protections for dogs at large scale breeding operations, and to increase protections for consumers who purchase sick animals from pet stores and puppy mills.
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.
The core strategy of the campaign will focus on five key initiatives that offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and increase live outcomes for shelter cats.
The core strategy of the campaign is comprised of five key initiatives that offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and increase live outcomes for shelter 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.
However, activists who oppose dog breeding claim that there is still a huge overpopulation of dogs and cats in the US, that euthanasia in shelters is increasing, and that dog breeders are somehow to blame for the shelter deaths.
«Many shelters have seen drastically reduced euthanasia rates and increased adoption and rescue rates because of the visibility their animals get now that they were never able to before.»
A team of outside consultants was deployed, tasked with «report [ing] on current programs» and «recommend [ing] areas ripe for change which could increase adoptions, while reducing shelter intake and euthanasia
The core strategy of the campaign will be five key initiatives that will offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and increase live outcomes for shelter cats.
Some progress in reducing euthanasia or increasing adoptions reported by participating shelters will inevitably be related to factors other than the five core Challenge initiatives (such as increased access to spay / neuter services or community - based trap - neuter - return programs).
In order to reduce the occurrence of euthanasia of adoptable animals, we must not only increase the number of animals that are adopted from shelters and rescues, but we must also reduce the number of animals that enter municipal shelters.
Animal lovers across Lake have been pushing for changes to increase adoptions and reduce the use of euthanasia at the county's shelter.
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 the two years since the law was passed, shelter intake and euthanasia rates have increased just like in the breed specific examples of San Francisco and Kansas City.
Our goal is to help make our community kinder while empowering our children to be responsible pet owners, which, in turn, will lead to increased adoptions and lower euthanasia rates within our county shelters.
The core strategy of the campaign will be five key initiatives that will offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia, increase live outcomes, and assure humane care for every cat in the shelter.
For these reasons, homeless senior pets are at increased risk of long shelter stays or euthanasia.
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
Only a holistic approach will reduce the number of animals entering Greenville County Animal Care and increase adoptions over euthanasia, say shelter officials and a nonprofit devoted to helping open - admission shelters save more than 90 percent of the dogs and cats they house.
This law, passed in 2010, put Delaware in the forefront of shelter standards in the country by ensuring that shelters provide proper veterinary care to animals, take reasonable steps to increase the likelihood of animal adoption, make it easier for owners to find lost pets, and address euthanasia procedures and methods.
Animal Care forged a partnership with Target Zero, a national nonprofit that works with overcrowded animal shelters to create strategies that decrease shelter intake and increase live release rates, for an ultimate goal of «zero euthanasia of all adoptable shelter animals,» says the nonprofit's website.
This results in lower euthanasia rates and the increased adoption of cats already in the shelters.
The premise of their attack is based on the belief that pet stores are responsible for (1) local pet overpopulation, (2) increased population at shelters, (3) the high shelter euthanasia rates and (4) the sale of sick dogs from «puppy mills» to unsuspected consumers.
The campaign is centered around five key initiatives that offer every shelter, in every community, practical choices to reduce euthanasia and increase live outcomes for shelter cats.
We will dramatically increase low - cost and free spay / neuter services available in targeted areas as we strive to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.
These chosen ten no - kill shelters are just a handful of so many successful groups that have increased adoptions, foster networks, facilities, and services to decrease euthanasia of healthy pets.
These members include over 25 different shelters and organizations who are dedicated to reducing euthanasia rates and increasing live outcomes.
The Helen Woodward Animal Center also provides free, 3 - day seminars that teach shelter workers and animal lovers more effective ways to increase adoptions and lower euthanasia.
For cats, the total number that entered shelters actually increased 7 % — and euthanasia remained essentially the same.
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