Sentences with phrase «many shelter directors»

Inevitably, Nichols can't entirely avoid the public face of this injustice, and later scenes with lawyers and the media feel especially perfunctory (Michael Shannon, helping out his old Take Shelter director, has a cameo as a Life photographer).

TAKE SHELTER director Jeff Nichols» next project is taking shape with a number of familiar faces joining MUD.

Shelter Director: Paul Bettany Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Mackie Synopsis: «Hannah and Tahir come from two different worlds.

If they are a grandparent, god parent, foster parent, homeless shelter Director, family member or loved one caring for children, information sent home under «parent engagement» doesn't connect to them.

According to Larry Briggs, Animal Welfare Department shelter director, «the American Humane Association established this special month, which is celebrated every October.

After the family retreated with the old Lab, the shelter director advised me that at the next shelter the family would probably just swear they had found her by the side of the road.

«At first we were overwhelmed at the prospect of accepting over 1,000 items into our cramped animal shelter,» said Tiffiny Koback, shelter director at the Saskatoon SPCA, «but it's given us amazing momentum.

So, whether you are a shelter director, city official, organizational board member, rescuer, advocate or volunteer, as they say: «Watch this space.»

We had such a terrible outbreak of feline respiratory disease last fall that the shelter director had to take 13 sick cats to a volunteer's garage to prevent it from infecting incoming healthy cats.

After several visits to this local facility, I met the shelter director and encouraged him to hire a veterinarian.

I must give a large amount of credit to our shelter director who is so open to new ideas and the shelter staff who are willing to accept change for the betterment of the animals.

Animal activists as well as former employees and volunteers, former staff veterinarians, and even other shelter directors have alleged all sorts of issues.

Shelter directors from open - admission public and private shelters in Michigan and Minnesota will be sharing their secrets of success at the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance's «Getting to the Goal» Conference in Troy, Mich., on Sept. 4 - 5, 2014.

Yes, say these shelter directors who are in the trenches doing it!

The former shelter director in Guilford County, Marsha Williams, was suspended with pay earlier this month.

And while there is certainly room for a good, old - fashioned pitchforks - and - torches march on a regressive shelter, the long - term sustainable results that Peter regards as defining the success of any model rely on a community - based infrastructure that is independent of the longevity of any particular shelter director, rescue organization or charismatic leader.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

Are you a dog training school owner, day care provider or shelter director who would like to give your staff the tools they need to better read and understand the animals in your care - and stay safer on the job?

(Photo: Former Guilford County Animal Shelter director Marsha Williams; by Lynn Hey / Greensboro News & Record)

Monica Brown, the shelter director for Young - Williams, will accompany Breeanna Brown on the journey.

We have a Bassett hound in the final 5 of the 5500, who was shot twice in the head by the shelter director, because he could not be bothered to call in a vet tech, or have him adopted out.

Strickland said he recommended most of the group members after speaking with animal shelter director Frankie Thorp.

The shelter could not take the animal because the men had no proof that it had its shots, shelter director Nathan Jarvis said Thursday.

This appears to be somewhat consistent with what I hear from shelter directors in other parts of the country.

(See «Dedicated Shelter Director of Waukegan Police Animal Control in Illinois is Making a Difference «-RRB- Per Elliot, Sheba went to Black Dog Rescue and will be safe.

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With the help of Ryan — and a few other animal welfare advocates in Austin, they changed the perceptions in Austin — and the shelter has now seen a 90 % + save rate for 5 consecutive months and a new shelter director with a history of no kill success.

The program is taught by secondary school science teachers in collaboration with shelter directors.

The No Kill Advocacy Center argues that appreciably less than one percent of dogs with worrisome behaviors are beyond our current ability to rehabilitate, pointing to recent studies and to the beliefs of practiced shelter directors.

Hank Verhovec, shelter director for the West Volusia Humane Society, said his shelter received 315 dogs in May, eight from DeLand.

This presentation is designed for shelter veterinarians, shelter managers, shelter directors, and shelter staff.

Another possibilityâ $» and perhaps the most likelyâ $» is the most disturbing of all: some shelter directors donâ $ ™ t care enough about the animals.

And in a continuation of our longstanding commitment to shelter medicine, Maddie's Fund recently launched our Shelter Medicine Changes Everything campaign, designed to inform the public about the lifesaving contribution of shelter veterinarians, inspire veterinary students to enter the field, help university programs and donors to more clearly understand the important role shelter medicine plays, as well as encourage shelter directors to hire staff veterinarians.

In May of 2010, the then shelter director was reassigned to other duties with the city and a search for a new shelter director began.

2003: The Board of Directors splits the Executive Director position into a Shelter Director position to handle overall shelter operations and a Vice President of Development & Marketing to expand and focus on the shelter's fundraising arm and community outreach.

These equally helpful and important tips were provided by Christina Travalja, Shelter Director at North Shore Animal League America.

If you don't like the answer, schedule a meeting with the shelter director.

janshowley — As a shelter director, I can't say enough good things about SNSI and what an asset they are to the welfare of animals across the state.

Today's shelter directors and veterinarians need to work together as a team, with shelter veterinarians being given a policy role consistent with their training and expertise.

In addition to serving in multiple positions within HSMO including Shelter Director and Director of Operations, Debbie has also worked as a veterinary assistant in Midland, Texas, as an Animal Control Officer in Midland, Texas, and as Executive Director of the SPCA in Midland, Texas.

A related issue is whether the shelter director has the flexibility needed to create No Kill.

The HSUS and Best Friends conferences both offer great opportunities for aspiring No Kill shelter directors to learn from the presenters and to network with each other.

The three revolutionary new lifesaving concepts discussed above have great appeal to traditional shelter directors, and they can set the stage for traditional shelters to take further steps toward saving all healthy and treatable animals.

As we go forward we need to have training resources for shelter directors that get down to a very granular level of detail of implementation.

If personnel and policy decisions are controlled by the government hierarchy, above the level of the shelter director, it can greatly hinder getting to No Kill.

RTF is another program that strongly appeals to traditional shelter directors, and allows them to start on the road to No Kill.

With all these resources, even shelter directors who are not superstars can be effective and can lead their organizations to No Kill.

Ehren Melius, Shelter Director, shares his account of this intense operation.

However, there are still those — shelter directors, managers, and medical staff, as well as city managers and / or board members — to whom these resources are new.

«In many cities, animals are brought in from other states, from «puppy mills,» where they live a horrific life — especially the breeder mothers, in cages their entire lives,» Front Street Animal Shelter Director Gina Knepp said.