Sentences with phrase «local animal population»

Enforcement of licensing ensures compliance with rabies vaccination requirements, reducing the probability of a rabies outbreak in the local animal population.
PACA is a local rescue organization that has been around for many years They have an excellent misson, and do amazing work for our local animal population.
We believe animal health and welfare is everyone's responsibility, including controlling the size of the local animal population.
Since 1968, the Owensboro Humane Society (OHS), a 501 (c)(3) charity, has slowly grown in strength and numbers to stop abuse, neglect and the over breeding of our local animal population.

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«The Ulster Unionist Party strongly believes in the principle of securing strong animal welfare practices, however whilst many can not appear to accept this, to us country sports have a key role in supporting our often fragile local ecosystem through managing animal populations.
Katzner said these findings suggest that environmental assessments of alternative energy facilities like Altamont Pass should take into consideration that animal populations affected by wind turbines might not be just local.
Boosting these fish populations offers not only much - needed animal protein for the local community but also an unprecedented source of income.
This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.
The only examples of such sustainable hunting, however, are either among people who have almost no contact with other human beings, such as the indigenous Aché people in the forests of eastern Paraguay, or those who have already killed off local populations of slow - breeding animals as is evidenced in the bushmeat market in Takoradi, Ghana.
That means public health officials may have to start looking for infections and deaths in local wild animal and livestock populations to keep the virus in check, he says.
Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general population would want.
Writing this Letter from the Editor has me reflecting on the rewarding experience it has been so far, from working with the wonderful writers of «TulsaPets» and meeting selfless people who champion for animal causes (especially the homeless pet population), to learning about some amazing local animals.
This promotion encourages the community to strengthen the work of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populAnimal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray populanimal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray population.
We work with local animal rescues to help with the pet population and to do our part to give back to the community.
Free - roaming cats and dogs reduce wild - animal populations, including threatened or endangered species in local areas.
Animal populations are so local and diverse that you could have an overabundance of dogs, but the shelter down the road is sitting with open kennels and eager adopters.
These usually are sponsored by animal shelters and veterinarians as part of their ongoing effort to control the local pet population.
Reducing Brevard County's abandoned / community cat population takes efforts from many organizations, including other grassroots animal welfare organizations, county animal services and law enforcement, local businesses, and citizens like yourself!
If a community needs minimal animal control services due to a small population of animals, local governments may employ an animal control officer and contract with a private operator, like a local veterinary clinic, to provide other services.
Showing local officials that people want a humane approach to animal control — and that TNR is the best way to stabilize community cat populations — can eventually lead them to officially embrace the new model.
After decades of the cruel, costly method of catching and killing cats have failed to stabilize cat populations, local officials, animal control officers, and animal shelters are realizing that they need a completely different approach.
We focus on reaching pets in low - income and underserved communities, prioritizing aid for those animals at highest risk in local shelters, and supporting efforts to control feral cat populations.
2006 — LSU SVM establishes monthly Spay Day, where local animal welfare groups to provide a high - volume, high - quality spay / neuter clinic to address the surge in Baton Rouge's pet population.
Because we believe strongly that adoptions from rescue organizations and shelters are a benefit to our community and to the local homeless animal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proanimal population, we offer free wellness exams for puppies and kittens adopted from the Humane Society of North Texas and from Fort Worth Animal Care and Control and its affiliated proAnimal Care and Control and its affiliated programs.
Through BARC's Healthy Pets Healthy Streets initiative, BARC partners with local spay / neuter providers such as Emancipet, Friends For Life, Spay - Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Humane Society to educate the community on the importance of spay / neuter and to provide free spay / neuter surgeries in targeted neighborhoods with the largest stray animal populations.
The local government personnel benefit by extending more control over our lives, enriching the public treasury with fees, tags and fines, and giving the appearance that local government is doing something about animal populations, disease and risks to the public.
Your local shelter is not just a place to keep unwanted pets, it also enforces animal welfare laws that keep unwanted animal populations down and help keep the city from diseases like rabies.
We believe so strongly that adoption and rescue of homeless pets is a benefit to our community and the local homeless pet population that we perform all of the spays and neuters for our municipal animal control authority and offer free wellness exams for shelter adoptions.
Studies have shown that local animal control agencies can't keep up with the stray population and the remaining cats in the area reproduce more and end up aggravating the problem instead of solving it.
NHS solicits and sells raffles to a national market and provides funding to local non-profits to help animal over population in any of the 50 states.
Local New Mexico shelters like Animal Service Center of Mesilla Valley has an average monthly population of over 850 pets.
«The Bark Avenue Foundation's mission is to empower pet owners and local communities to reduce abandoned animal populations through spay / neuter, pet retention and reclamation, and education.»
«Our new state - of - the - art Center in the heart of Manhattan will demonstrate to locals and visitors alike the problems and solutions facing our country's homeless pet population,» said Gregory Castle, ceo and Co-Founder of Best Friends Animal Society.
Empowering pet owners and local communities to reduce abandoned animal populations through spay & neuter, pet retention & reclamation, and education.
If all pet owners spayed and neutered their animals local shelters would experience a reduction in their populations.
Early in his career, he was helping 50 local rescue groups as their supervising veterinarian, where he saw many shelters and rescues give up because of lack of money to survive — and where euthanasia was the only option to control a population of homeless animals.
Since Heart of America Humane Society is a 100 percent volunteer organization, we rely on our local community to support our efforts to provide safe and healthy foster homes for the animals in our care and reduce the local stray pet population.
It mainly alienates the pet - loving population from animal control agencies charged with enforcement, and sets up a needless conflict between groups (i.e. state or local government vs. dog and cat enthusiasts, kennel and cat clubs) that should be allies.
Work with your local animal control or feral cat group to help manage your neighborhood's community and stray cat populations.
Concerned locals have been documenting the cull's victims through photo and video footage and animal activist groups have again called on the city to end its futile population control method, urging Sochi to instead build a shelter for homeless animals.
Though many people in the area have confused the two entities as one and the same, the local animal shelter has been run by the City of Steamboat Springs with RCHS working in partnership to provide veterinary care for shelter animals as well as spay / neuter to reduce future unwanted pet population.
In many parts of the country, there are far more animals in shelters than are adopted to the local population.
Local governments may outsource animal control services to the private sector due to their budget, their community's priorities, and the size of their local cat and dog populaLocal governments may outsource animal control services to the private sector due to their budget, their community's priorities, and the size of their local cat and dog populalocal cat and dog population.
(5) the humane killing of an animal that is diseased or disabled beyond recovery for any useful purpose, or the humane killing of animals for population control, by the owner thereof or the agent of such owner residing outside of a city or the owner thereof within a city if no animal shelter or licensed veterinarian is within the city, or by a licensed veterinarian at the request of the owner thereof, or by any officer or agent of an animal shelter, a local or state health officer or a licensed veterinarian three business days following the receipt of any such animal at such shelter;
Mr. Stevenson appoints himself the official guardian of the local bird population, arms himself with a deadly weapon and kills an animal on public property.
Ideally the operation of the program is legalized and codified by the adoption of a local ordinance to regulate the circumstance and procedures under which the cats are humanely trapped and returned as a means of controlling the community cat population and a compassionate alternative to putting healthy animals to death.
Though two local groups had long practiced trap - neuter - return (TNR), and had significant success in reducing feral cat populations in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2010, the city animal welfare department's two shelters still euthanized 53 percent of the cats they took in.
TNR is the only humane method of community cat population control — and it works, especially when it is part of a shelter - integrated program run in cooperation with local animal control agencies.
The ASPCA encourages cat advocates, animal shelters and rescues, local government officials and the public to work together, and believes that lawful TNRM, RTF, and, as a last resort, community cat relocation programs, are humane and effective approaches for managing and controlling community cat populations.
For the past 10 years there, SIVO has offered medical care to the local pet population there whose owners may not have other means to provide for their animals.
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