Not exact matches
To all the commenters waiting for their family
pets to die, who are
keeping them outside after being pampered, who
abandoned them at shelters — my heart bleeds for these living, thinking, FEELING beings who gave you love and trusted you to love them back.
Responsible rehoming is sometimes necessary, same for sometimes taking measures to
keep baby and
pets separate for awhile, but
abandoning or wishing death on a living being that is a responsibility that you took on is cruel, terrible and heartless regardless of the species or annoyance level of that being.
We hope that our Hartz Shelter Program will help shelters feed and care for
abandoned animals and enable at - risk families to
keep their
pets.»
Temporarily sheltering of an animal goes a long way in
keeping abused,
abandoned and neglected
pets alive and healthy!
Our goals are to spread the word about
keeping ferrets as
pets, and to care for neglected, abused and
abandoned ferrets.
«We'd strongly encourage anyone who is struggling with
keeping their
pets to come to us for advice, or talk to our outreach team about help and support, rather than rashly
abandoning their
pet.
A report to the committee said dogs, cats and rabbits bred for
pet stores are
kept in inhumane conditions, and too many of them end up being
abandoned by owners — and end up in shelters.
What You Can Do If everyone in Brevard County became a responsible
pet owner -
keeping their cats indoors, sterilizing them, and no
abandoning them - there would not be a feral cat problem in Brevard.
Animal shelters already care for and try to find homes for untold thousands of lost, injured and
abandoned cats, in addition to
pet cats whose owners are unable or unwilling to
keep them.
If you kill all the cats in an area, more will just move in and take over the
abandoned territory because humans will not neuter their
pets and
keep them indoors.
The adoption rate simply can't
keep up with the incoming flow of lost or
abandoned pets.
Strays — These occur from guardians who let their
pets roam; who don't spay / neuter them, so they look for opposite sex companionship; guardians who
abandon their animals or never bother looking for them once they are gone; and by guardians who don't
keep ID tags on their animals at all times (regardless of if the dog is an inside - only dog or if the dog has never before gotten out of the yard).
FMAS is hoping, that by coming to the aid of these
pet owners, they will be able to
keep their beloved
pets instead of finding them a new home, surrendering to a shelter or
abandoning them.
We want to help families
keep their
pets instead of these
pets becoming
abandoned or turned over to shelters and dog pounds.
Donated funds go directly towards their programs that include working with the community to sterilize stray and feral cats through TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return), rescue, foster, sterilization and adoption for kittens and
abandoned domestic cats, assisting low income families with emergency and wellness veterinary care and subsidize adoption fees for senior cats to senior citizens along with other support programs to help people
keep their
pets.
Assistance to
pets of caretakers who have been left indigent since Katrina and desire to
keep their
pets, preventing them from being surrendered to municipal shelters or
abandoned to the street.
Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to
abandon their
pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often
keep lovingly fed.
In a perfect world all feral cats could be caught and euthanized; however many feral cats evade capture, and irresponsible
pet owners continue to
abandon unneutered cats that
keep having kittens.
We have a no - kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs
abandoned and / or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life - saving programs and services to
keep pets and their people together.
When your home has a revolving door for abused and
abandoned animals,
keeping pets takes on a whole new dimension!
You reward bad behavior of those who get cute kittens, and when they growp
abandon them out of site, out of mind to those of us who
keep our
pets close and take care of them.
A bag of
pet food can be lifesaving and
keep a
pet owner from having to
abandon a
pet at a shelter because of hard times.
By doing this, we
keep pets out of shelters or
abandoned in the streets, thereby decreasing the euthanasia rate of animal - control facilities, lowering the tax burden on citizens whose tax dollars fund county - run animal control services, and giving other shelter animals a longer period in which to find their forever homes.
If people really want to help the animals, aside from donating items, they should spay or neuter their
pets,
keep track of them, and never
abandon them.