Sentences with phrase «more sheltered conditions»

The South Coast, by comparison, offers more sheltered conditions with many more coves and fishing villages to explore.

Not exact matches

The state Department of Agriculture and Markets is generally doing well to ensure animal shelters across New York provide safe conditions and proper care for seized dogs, but could do more to make certain dogs are not inappropriately euthanized, according to an audit from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was recently quoted as saying that the sharp rise in the length of stays at city homeless shelters has to do with «more pleasurable» shelter conditions.
A new audit from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has found that more than 65 homeless shelters statewide are in poor condition, including eight in the greater Capital Region.
A study carried out by Shelter in 2006 suggested that children in bad housing conditions, including cold homes, were more likely to have mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression.
Among DiNapoli's suggestions to clear up squalid conditions is to develop a more comprehensive statewide database of shelters to help state officials keep a more accurate inventory of shelters and manage conditions.
ALBANY — A new audit from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has found that more than 65 homeless shelters statewide are in poor condition, including eight in the greater Capital Region.
After putting into place more than 20 new shelters — many of which eventually drew scrutiny for substandard conditions — de Blasio himself called for «an informal halt to all expansion» and ordered the Department of Homeless Services to investigate whether shelters were being «inequitably sited in certain neighborhoods.»
These containers are more comfortable than tents and provide much better shelter from the Antarctica's harsh conditions.
More than 60 animals were rescued from deplorable conditions at a non-profit rescue group's makeshift shelter in the foothills above Squaw Valley.
This week, a shelter in Houston, Texas, took in more than 150 animals who had been living in «deplorable» conditions at a rescue agency in Dayton.
The more stressful the conditions in the shelter and the less optimal the housing, the more this will be true.
Happy, healthy cats in turn tend to move through the shelter more quickly, and good conditions and care for cats engage higher levels of volunteer and community support.
Music arranged to promote relaxation and calm behavior is donated to shelters to help the animals cope with stressful housing conditions and be more inviting of loving adoptions.
Upper respiratory infections are more likely to occur under certain circumstances: crowded living conditions (e.g., shelters, catteries), unsanitary conditions (e.g., when poor disinfection or poor hygiene are allowed), or during times of exposure to affected cats where bodily fluids are being exchanged by contagious discharge from the eyes or nose (sneezing).
She then has no choice as to whether she gets to carry a possible litter of up to 10 or more puppies, and no choice as to then getting dumped at the local shelter to nurse her babies in a cage because the local county economy can't support better conditions for its county shelter.
Tails End, the animal shelter in Pahrump, recently found itself overwhelmed after more than 65 dogs and 2 cats were rescued from deplorable conditions from a home in Nye County in late February.
We envision the day when appropriate and stable funding exists to medically treat all nonterminal conditions, address all unsafe behaviors with training, and implement innovative sheltering alternatives in order to save more lives.
According to the HSUS report,» Smith's Kennel has a history of repeat USDA violations stretching back more than a decade, including citations for unsanitary conditions; dogs exposed to below - freezing temperatures or excessive heat without adequate shelter from the weather; dogs without enough cage space to turn and move around freely; pest and rodent infestations; injured and bleeding dogs, dogs with loose, bloody stools who had not been treated by a vet, and much more
A study by the University of Kentucky, done in 2016, found that of 92 shelters covering Kentucky's 120 counties — some of them regional facilities — conditions at 57 percent violated three or more provisions of Kentucky's animal - shelter laws.
Outbreaks of ringworm infection are more common in young dogs and those kept in high - density living conditions, such as pet stores, puppy mills and animal shelters.
Buying pets promotes the breeding of even more dogs and cats — sometimes under cruel and painful conditions, such as found in puppy mills — at a time when nearly 29,000 homeless pets enter our city shelters each year.
And, with more than 25,000 animals entering shelters in Pima County each year and thousands more in dire need of spay and neuter services, Altered Tails will collaborate with Pima Animal Care Center, the largest animal welfare group in Pima County that provides animal control, to assist them with spay / neuter surgeries when they face overflow conditions due to their high intake numbers.
«A review of state and USDA inspection reports from more than 100 breeders who sold animals to the nation's largest retail pet store chain revealed that more than 60 percent of the inspections found serious violations of basic animal care standards, including sick or dead animals in their cages, lack of proper veterinary care, inadequate shelter from weather conditions, and dirty, unkempt cages that were too small.
By going out and spending an exorbitant amount of money on teacup animals, more animals stay in shelters and are kept in terrible puppy mill conditions.
With the new lower euthanasia rates it is more likely that any dog at a shelter will have had a significant period in the shelter being treated for medical or behavioral conditions.
... A review of USDA inspection reports from more than 100 Petland breeders revealed that more than 60 % of the inspections found serious violations of basic animal care standards, including sick or dead dogs in their cages, lack of proper veterinary care, inadequate shelter from weather conditions, and dirty, unkempt cages that were too small.»
rescues animals from euthanasia at the Clermont County Animal Shelter, many are typically ill or injured and require extraordinary care to save their lives — Parvo puppies, Heartworm positive dogs, animals requiring limb amputations, skin conditions and much, much more!
What's more, since lifestyle factors that lead to feline heartworm exposure also put cats at risk of FelV and FIV, shelter cats may be dealing with multiple conditions that complicate each other.
This approach frees up critical staff time and saves money, allowing shelters to focus more on increasing adoption rates, improving shelter conditions, and implementing Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) in the community.
Espree Animal Products partners with three local shelters to enhance the adoption process by donating all of the shampoo and conditioning products needed to bathe more than 13,000 animals each year.
For the next several decades, community animal control services would be assumed by humane groups, with the emphasis on improving shelter conditions and developing more «humane» methods of euthanasia, such as electric shock, gas and decompression chambers, and finally, lethal injection.
Please note, as a primarily outdoor animal shelter facility, all employees may be subject to standing / walking for long periods of time, working outdoors despite weather conditions, and must be able to lift 40 pounds or more.
We always aim for one of the dive sites to be Manta Point or Manta Bay, but this will depend on the conditions on the day as if it is too wavy we may need to divert to a more sheltered site.
The situation was so dire, the Massachusetts Bay Colony lost about one third of its colonists in the first winter, another third refused to stay and returned home to England, and the last third suffered more horrific losses before a high birth rate of nearly ten children per family and improving conditions of food and shelter permitted the colony to survive and expand its numbers exponentially.
I am well aware of the human condition and it's inherent bent toward chasing more and better assets (food, clothing, shelter, not to mention showboating stuff etc., that all of the foregoing items nowadays require more and more dollars to purchase) in times of need as well as during good times, because simply put, that distant need in our brains becomes habituated.
Internationally, Habitat's improved the shelter conditions of 1 million more.
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