Sentences with phrase «lowered shelter intake»

Hundreds of examples of spay / neuter efforts resulting in dramatically lowered shelter intake rates exist.

Spay / neuter could have become a household word as citizens began looking for the free or low cost services needed to lower shelter intake and euthanasia rates.

Spay and Neuter Kansas City provides low - cost spay and neuter services for underserved areas of the city and families in need as a means of animal population control, to lower shelter intake, and for those pets to have healthy lives.

Governments have a unique stake in this work because the more they invest in prevention and partnerships with organizations like Emancipet, the lower their shelter intake and the stray animal population declines.

This grant will help us get closer to the goal of low shelter intake numbers and less homeless animals in our community.»

Not exact matches

New to Tulsa this year, the concept of transporting animals from an overburdened shelter to one with high adoption rates and lower local intake numbers is not unique.

In response to the firsttime enforcement of the spay / neuter ordinance, the use of the low - income spay / neuter program increased dramatically while Tulsa's shelter intakes declined.

Peter's analysis of the impact of targeted spay / neuter services states that spaying or neutering five animals per 1,000 people in low - income areas will reduce shelter intake by as much as 33 percent over a five - year period.

White has also emphasized that the San Francisco model for lowering shelter killing worked primarily by promoting spay / neuter to further reduce intake, and that the Adoption Pact produced only a brief surge in adoptions city - wide.

For example, it is likely to be lower for an open - admission municipal shelter than for a limited - intake rescue organization.

Shelter intake is thought to have been static in the U.S. as a whole since around the year 2000, but Michigan demonstrates that there is still more to be gained, at least in some places, by low - cost, high - volume spay / neuter programs.

Michigan's shelter intake in 2015 was about 14 animals per 1000 people, which puts it on the low end of the average range of intake.

When you see high shelter intake relative to the human population and a low reclaim rate, you are probably in a place where the residents don't have the resources to keep their pets off the street and safely at home, or the resources to look for them when they disappear.

TNR lowers the intake and euthanasia rates in shelters and creates better, less hostile environments for feral cats.

Last year, when we were in record drought and heat, we had the lowest intake of kittens to our city shelter in history.

The total capacity for cats of all U.S. shelters and sanctuaries combined ---- which is higher now than ever before, but includes many facilities that are unsuitable for longterm holding ---- is still less than 25 % of annual shelter intake of cats, now lower than at any time since 1950.

Our nation's best defense against all of the sources of shelter intake is targeted, aggressive, high - volume, high - quality, low - cost sterilization.

To reduce dog intakes, municipalities should consider how the establishment of free or low cost puppy training programs (potentially mandatory for shelter adoptions) might impact shelter populations.

Currently, many animal shelters are struggling with rising cat intake rates and low live - release rates compared to dogs.

TNR programs have been shown to lower animal shelter intake numbers and euthanasia rates.

While LifeLine Animal Project's management has lowered the euthanasia rate at our DeKalb County Animal Services (DCAS) shelter, with half of all litters unplanned, there is always more we can do to reduce intake.

Surgeries are focused on pets of low - income individuals, as pets from low - income households are the primary source of shelter intake.

has focused on dramatically increasing the availability of low - cost and no - cost spay / neuter services to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.

Thanks to the campaign's focus on increasing spay and neuter surgeries by offering free and low - cost options, there has been a 15 % increase in spay / neuter surgeries which has helped decrease intake at alliance member shelters by 38 percent, about 32,000 animals.

The dog and cat intake rates at shelters are significantly decreasing because of low - cost spay / neuter surgery!

Prior declines in the county shelters intakes as a result of the free and low cost alteration programs had leveled off.

Targeting these particular groups in addition to low income pet owners will make the greatest impact on shelter intake.

Director Mike Keiley of the Noble Family Animal Care and Adoption Center MSPCA at Nevins Farm and Bryn Conklin Rogers, Program Manager for the MSPCA Boston Adoption Center, will share how one small change at their shelters - lowered intake, boosted adoptions, and helped drive innovations in helping cats with behavioral challenges.

And since studies show that shelter intake directly correlates with euthanasia rates, keeping community cats out of shelters in general is a good way to ensure even lower euthanasia numbers for 2016.

SNP LA is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to substantially reduce animal shelter intake and euthanasia by providing high - quality, low - cost spay / neuter services to underserved residents of the Los Angeles metro area.

Other communities have developed better programs to not only lower the shelter's intake (and save on your tax dollars), but these programs help lower the cat population overall.

Numerous studies show that the intake rate at shelters significantly decrease when low - cost spay / neuter services are available in the community.

«Alternatives to intake» is about many things — programs that provide pet food or veterinary care to low income families, support for community members who bring litters of kittens to the shelter and helping solve housing problems.

That directly impacts the rate of euthanasia for our city shelter because their intake numbers lower.

TNR lowers euthanasia rates by reducing shelter intake of cats.

Spaying and neutering can significantly reduce the number of animals being euthanized at open intake shelters or turned away at no kill shelters due to lack of space, decrease the cost of picking up and housing stray or unwanted animals, and lower threats to public health and safety.

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.

This is important because the lower the intake, the easier it is for even unmotivated, ineffective, and uncaring directors (in short, your average kill shelter director) to replace killing.

Second, continued promotion and availability of high - volume, low - cost sterilization is a means to help a community reach stasis in its shelters where adoptions equal intakes, making the achievement of No Kill even easier.

Additional to a low - intake shelter we have a small network of volunteer foster carers who look after animals in their homes until loving homes can be found.

We will dramatically increase low - cost and free spay / neuter services available in targeted areas as we strive to reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.

For instance, in the winter months when shelter intake numbers are lower, instead of just letting our spay / neuter numbers slow down, we should actually increase the numbers coming in from the pet owner community.

In Oklahoma, the cities of Okmulgee and Bristow have both dramatically reduced shelter intakes by offering sterilization services for low - income residents, with the

What's more, TNR often directly reduces a community's pet euthanasia rate by lowering the number of births and reducing intake into already - crowded shelters.

As it is our belief that offering low cost spay / neuter to targeted areas together with educating the public will not only decrease the shelter intake but create a cycle of awareness beginning from grade school age into adulthood.

In fact, low household income and poverty are statistically associated with having a sexually intact cat (Patronek et al, 1997; Chu et al., 2009), with relinquishment of pets to shelters (Patronek et al., 1996), and with shelter intake (Frank, 2003).

The shelter had an intake rate of 14,000 animals per year and disastrously low adoption rates.

This Clay Humane initiative is aimed at lowering animal intake in area shelters thus reducing euthanasia in companion animals.