Not exact matches
ADMISSSION PROCESS FOR LLAR: Because LLAR is a small, 100 % volunteer run
shelter with a
limited budget, appointments are required to surrender a pet.
The stress on
shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is
limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small
budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the
shelter; counties lacking even a
shelter or inside kenneling.
The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of
limited animal
shelter budgets.
While I appreciate that you are trying to simplify it down to business principals, and also agree that adoption promotion is important, the issue for most
shelters will continue to be a
limited budget, whether it's a non-profit
shelter or a municipality.
Many veterinarians practicing in low - income areas or in animal
shelters on
limited budgets are still using the more inflammatory adjuvanted rabies vaccines.
Too many animals, a tight
budget and not enough time: These are facts of life at many
shelters, but a data - based approach can help
shelters make the most of
limited resources by targeting them where they'll have the biggest impact.
Unfortunately, it can be very expensive, especially for animal
shelters, rescue groups, and municipal agencies working with
limited budgets.
With
limited budgets, many
shelters simply can not allocate sufficient resources to give each adoption this level of attention.
Shanan Spencer - Brown, executive director of the Royal LePage
Shelter Foundation, says, «Shelters operate within
limited budgets, which don't allow for any «extras» that might make the holiday season brighter for women and children.