Sentences with phrase «keep shelter animals»

There is a critical shortage of both specialists in this field and trained practitioners able to provide the programs and services necessary to keep shelter animals healthy and facilitate their live release.

Toys help keep shelter animals happy by giving them something to do.

We like to keep the shelter animals happy and healthy until they're adopted.

The approach of a shelter veterinarian is to consider the whole group and not just the individual and the ultimate goal is to keep shelter animals physically and emotionally healthy.

YHS always needs supplies to help keep our shelter animals clean, happy and comfortable.

Animal sheltering can be a dirty business, and staff and volunteers aren't always clear on how to keep shelter animals healthy by understanding and applying principles for cleaning and disinfection.

Fewer than one fourth of cities have procedures that actually support compliance with the 1986 Oklahoma Dog and Cat Sterilization Act, a law intended to keep shelter animals from giving birth to more unwanted animals; many do not keep records of the number of animals handled and 28 shelters refused to return calls or told us they would not discuss their shelter policies with the public.

Infectious diseases are the single biggest threat to keeping shelter animals healthy during their shelter stay.

It's no coincidence that in 1998, the first - ever formal shelter medicine class was held at Cornell University, heralding a new understanding of what keeps shelter animals physically and mentally healthy.

Not exact matches

The difference between the need of an animal and a human being for shelter has to be kept in view.

The shelter still has no adequate caging or expert staff, and animals kept there will have a diminished quality of life, says Leiman.

Rather than keep them for the rest of their lives in bleak animal shelters, it may be kinder to have them put down, she says.

We have shelter above our heads, we can store all the goods, keep animals safe and do much more things thanks to all the buildings.

If that odd fact perked your interest, just wait: Marrin spikes his prose with keep - you - reading bits of esoterica (Depression - era mothers abandoning babies at animal shelters, German dogs taught to bark, «Mein Führer»).

Though our shelters are open admission — meaning we don't turn any animal away — our staff still does everything they can to help owners keep their pets, whether through behavior training, medical care, providing food or supplies, working with landlords, or assistance during military deployments.

Veterinary care, food, shelter, transportation out - of - state, and for those with physical buildings — employees to keep the doors open, the floors cleaned, and the animals fed, the lights on and the heating / air conditioning operational.

Adding to the conundrum are the facts that basic record keeping in animal sheltering is not mandatory, the state sterilization law actually lacks a penalty if it is violated and our humane euthanasia law exempts cities under 10,000 from mandatory compliance; this exempts over 80 % of our municipalities from compliance with this statute.

Unless the animal is being released to a research facility, there is no mandatory record keeping on the intakes, hold times and disposal of sheltered animals in Oklahoma.

Since the organization does not have the capacity to keep animals long - term, area shelters and rescue groups will play a role in the effort too, Beene said.

Like every animal that comes into the shelter, my two strays were checked over by the shelter veterinary staff and vaccinated to keep them healthy during their stay.

For the survey, shelters were asked to provide either actual or estimated numbers because Oklahoma does not mandate that animal shelters keep accurate records.

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.»

Getting to Zero has four target areas: spay / neuter, transport from other shelters to the Humane Society, adoptions, and providing options for owners to keep animals in their homes.

Animal shelters tend to keep owner - given names — even when the animal is seized from its abusers — in the belief that an animal yanked out of everything he knows (good or bad) will find some comfort in hearing his own familiarAnimal shelters tend to keep owner - given names — even when the animal is seized from its abusers — in the belief that an animal yanked out of everything he knows (good or bad) will find some comfort in hearing his own familiaranimal is seized from its abusers — in the belief that an animal yanked out of everything he knows (good or bad) will find some comfort in hearing his own familiaranimal yanked out of everything he knows (good or bad) will find some comfort in hearing his own familiar name.

If a citizen decides to not bring the stray to the shelter, and has made an honest effort to find an owner, the citizen may keep the animal if they wish.

That may be reason enough to make sure your cat stays in - doors but an increasing number of animal shelters are requiring that you keep your adopted cat indoors, not allowing him outdoors.

How about benefits like a stray pet drive - home service that keeps animals out the shelter... how about someone trained in community relations and conflict resolution to help you resolve any pet - related problems with your neighbors... how about a free spay / neuter service for members of the public who can't afford retail vet services... and how about a fund to pay local vets when a shelter animal needs medical care?

Before forming Speedway Dog Training, Brittany worked in animal rescue, which motivated her to help keep animals out of shelters and off the streets.

Animal shelters can not keep up with the severe overpopulation of pets in the United States and, as a result, millions of pets are euthanized each year.

«In this difficult economy, shelters and rescue groups need donations more than ever to keep up with the demand for their lifesaving efforts, «said Jane Hoffman, President of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, a coalition of more than 150 animal shelters and rescue groups committed to ending the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at New York City shelters.

When I'm not being a shelter vet, I'm trying to keep animals from ending up in shelters.

Pet Care of Silver Spring will also share its love of companion animals by holding a fundraising silent auction of pet care products and services for Your Dog's Friend, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help keep adopted dogs from being returned to shelters by educating and supporting their humans.

She was turned into Christ - Yoder Animal Shelter in Buchannan Dam by a breeder that didn't think she produced enough puppies to justify keeping her.

The ASPCA's shelter medicine experts, Animal Poison Control Center staff and shelter partners provide expertise and tools to keep animals in your care healthy.

During that time she kept her hand in animal care with volunteer work at Tyler Regional Animal Care Shelter (TRACS) in South Windsor as well as pet sianimal care with volunteer work at Tyler Regional Animal Care Shelter (TRACS) in South Windsor as well as pet siAnimal Care Shelter (TRACS) in South Windsor as well as pet sitting.

Animals who are kept outside without shelter in extreme weather conditions.

In keeping with the ASPCA's outreach mission, to find their animals the best possible parents, they recommend that shelters request proof of your intent to provide a caring and safe home.

The animal shelter system is making big changes, from how shelters are designed to re-training and treating negative behaviors in dogs — and even to helping people keep their dogs instead of surrendering them.

And the more shelters in a community, whether open admission No Kill or limited admission No Kill, keep those animals out of kill shelters.

Volunteers also help provide outreach and education programs, which play a vital role in the organization's mission: reducing the animal overpopulation problem and keeping them out of shelters entirely.

Goldens come into our program from private owners who can no longer keep them, from animal shelters, or from people who have found a stray Golden that has not been claimed.

«Now, we've got to put a lot of blankets down» on the shelter floor to help keep the animals warm when temperatures drop, Baumgardt said.

Puppy - Dogs - R - Us, which describes itself as a no - kill animal shelter, is accused of keeping the animals in poor conditions.

Also, keep in mind that while your newly adopted pet may have had a clean bill of health, shelters must offset the cost of more expensive cases, such as animals that have been badly injured or have heartworms.

But what about the shelters we don't know about, who don't have the luxury of an extra set of hands and do all they can just to keep the cages clean and the animals fed?

Learn which law enforcement organizations to partner with, the benefits of using deferments over citations, how to educate owners for long - term success and how to keep animals that are not shelter adoption candidates in homes where they were successful.

Another thing to keep in mind is that NOT all shelters completely vet the animals they adopt out.

Chiang mentioned «Pressure from her superiors and pressure from the fact that people keep dumping animals at shelters, causing the shelter to be always over capacity.

Guinea pigs are one of the most overpopulated animals and many shelters do not have to keep data that shows how many they are killing.

They muck cages, change litter, tackle a mountain of laundry, answer phones, tally statistics, write grants, take photographs, write up animal stories, build kitty trees, fix the roof, schlep «stuff», paint the building, plan and produce fundraisers, walk in parades, work at events to promote the Shelter, make signs, decorate and clean our facility, take animals to and from the veterinarian, take complaints about animal abuse, make visits to talk with people about humane animal care, and pretty much anything else we need to keep this operation running.