Sentences with phrase «of dogs in shelters waiting»

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Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and while most people think of candy, cards, flowers and dinners out, Bellamy Young thinks about the dogs and cats that are in your local shelter, waiting to find their furever family and home.

In 2015, PAAS had a shelter full of dogs and cats, a long, long, long waiting list of owner surrenders and only a handful of potential adopters coming through the door each week.

There's Bradley and Apollo, both very handsome, friendly dogs who first found themselves in the city of Tulsa Animal Welfare shelter with no adoption prospects and now have spent the better part of a year waiting for permanent homes.

By getting a puppy from a shelter, you can be confident that you are getting a healthy, friendly pet.Thousands of dogs, many of them purebreds, are in shelters waiting to be adopted.

Unfortunately, right now, millions of dogs are in shelters and foster care still waiting to find a family.

There are so many wonderful pets at our shelter - cats and dogs of all ages, shapes, sizes and breeds, waiting in hope for a home, someone to share life with, someone to love.

Even if you can't commit to a specific task or number of hours per month, you could help save a dog's life by evaluating a dog in a shelter waiting for rescue or by driving a leg of a transport.

I love all of my fosters very much, but I always think of ALL the dogs waiting in the same shelters that my fosters came from.

There are millions of loving animals waiting right now at a shelter near you for their happy ending (over 1.5 million dogs and cats are euthanized in U.S. shelters every year because they don't have a home, so this is more important than ever!).

At the end of the night, volunteers from of Friends of Homeless Animals had a chance to speak to over 150 people about the fate of dogs in rescue as well as those that are in shelters just waiting for their second chance.

They try to solve this problem by encouraging or requiring people to spay or neuter their pets (to reduce the number of cats and dogs who need homes), 57 encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters rather than purchasing them from pet stores or breeders (to increase the number of people looking to provide homes to animals in shelters), 58 and donating money to shelters and foster programs that care for cats and dogs waiting to be adopted (so they can house animals for longer).59 Collectively, these solutions have greatly reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters.60 The problem is well understood, although making further progress in solving it may be expensive in areas where all these solutions have already been implemented.

«With millions of dogs waiting in shelters and foster homes every day for a loving home, I had to do something more than share a Facebook post to help,» Wigglebutt Warriors founder, Carol Bryant said.

With millions of healthy dogs waiting to be adopted in U.S. shelters, the idea that there is an entire industry dedicated to mass - breeding new puppies is not only disgusting but downright irresponsible.

There are amazing dogs waiting in shelters in every part of the country.

We had a brand new, beautiful facility, and within the first 60 days, we realized we had more than 50 dogs and 50 cats in the shelter and an owner - surrender waiting list of more than 150 dogs and 175 cats.

Yet it's in these shelters that senior dogs too often spend weeks, months, or even the rest of their lives while they wait for a potential adopter.

There is no reason to buy a dog from a pet store when millions of adoptable dogs are waiting for forever homes in a shelter nearby.

February is quickly coming to an end, and as we look forward to the arrival of March dogs in animal shelters across the country are hoping that the new month will bring about a new chapter in their lives as they wait to be adopted by a forever pet parent.

Each year, millions of dogs end up homeless and waiting in shelters for a hero to come and rescue them.

Fostering allows adoptable animals to move out of the shelter while they are waiting for their new home, opening up more space in the shelter and giving more dogs and cats a second chance at a new life!

Hundreds of dogs and cats also are waiting at the Humane Society shelter on the North Side and at Animal Rescue League's location in the East End.

The problem is that there are so many breeding indiscriminately that we have millions sitting in shelters waiting to die a slow, agonizing death, including thousands of purebred dogs who are victims of the breeding industry, which produces many more dogs than there are owners willing to pay high prices for a dog.

There are hundreds of thousands of dogs and puppies in shelters across the nation that are waiting for good homes.

An estimated 2,700 dogs and cats who are waiting to be adopted in Jacksonville will be given new - found hope for getting out the of the shelter system and into loving homes, thanks to all of us working together with a strategic focus.

We do not have a shelter, all of our dogs are in foster homes waiting for their forever homes.

No matter how you look at the issue, the idea of producing more dogs to meet the «demands» of people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a purebred pup while there are hundreds of thousands of purebred dogs waiting in overcrowded shelters is incredibly irresponsible.

CDP: Yes, over time our model evolved, and we started taking owner surrenders for two reasons: One, the shelters are so full of strays that there is a long wait list for surrender, and two, how well will dogs do in that environment?

San Antonio Pets Alive pulled the canines from the city pound — all of them in line to be euthanized if they couldn't be adopted — and sent them to the Idaho Humane Society in Boise and the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley in the town of Hailey, where there are waiting lists to adopt dogs.

Wherever you live in Canada, there are likely dozens, perhaps even hundreds of dogs, cats and other pets waiting right now to be adopted from an animal shelter or rescue group near you.

The 501 C 3 nonprofit organization supports local rescues and shelters, taking in dogs that have been waiting for extended periods to find a home, dogs that have been returned multiple times and dogs that are struggling in the shelter environment due to fear and lack of socialization.

The ultimate goal of this project is to raise awareness of the staggering number of pets in shelters waiting for adoption, and get many dogs adopted.

Besides, even if you are able to find a home for your puppies, that means an equal number of dogs are put down or waiting in shelters across the country.

These factory - style breeding facilities churn out millions of puppies for profit while dogs in shelters wait for homes.

It is unconscionable that these institutions would facilitate the breeding of more dogs when so many dogs languish in shelters and with rescues, waiting for permanent homes, and when millions are euthanized ever year because of oversupply.

One thing I can't state emphatically enough is this: I definitely DO N'T think pit bulls are suitable for everyone, no matter how many of the dogs wait - and die - in animal shelters.

PETA's (Ingrid Newkirk's) position that «pit bulls» in shelters, and the breeds and its mixes in general, should be euthanized, banned, and no longer bred, is tied to their (her) assertion that there are plenty of shelter dogs waiting to be adopted, so people can just select some other kind of dog or lovable mutt when bullies no longer exist.

Around 25 percent of dogs waiting for a forever home in shelters are purebred, so why bother with a breeder to begin with!

we have many young pit bulls just waiting to curl up on a couch next to their new families:) i've met a ton of them in the shelters here that would be great family dogs.

One of the nicest things about working for a small company like Freshpet is the corporate culture of giving back to those less fortunate, and since we are a pet food manufacturer, it's only natural that we would donate any surplus Freshpet dog or cat recipes to the many dogs and cats in animal shelters and rescues who are waiting for their forever homes.

People's tendency to seek out breeders when they decide to get a dog makes the plight of adoptable dogs waiting in shelters much more urgent.

Several receiving shelters participated and many of these dogs had adopters waiting for them upon arrival or were quickly adopted in the days to follow.

There are a lot of really good dogs in the shelters, waiting for someone to give them a chance.

By joining our Foster Family program, you can offer the safety and healing environment of your home to a dog either waiting in a shelter for euthanasia or for rescue.

Thousands of dogs and cats are waiting for their forever homes in local shelters and foster homes.

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Dogs get to wait for their people to find them in a home environment, a set - up that is the near opposite of many shelters.

There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals waiting for homes in shelters and the pet store industry not only prevents these needy animals from finding a forever home, but also perpetuates the idea that dogs and cats can be bought and sold like inanimate objects.

For those senior pets waiting for their forever home, many end up in foster homes because they can not handle the stress of a shelter environment for extended periods of time with as much ease as younger dogs.

Katie was an exceptional dog and my best friend, but it saddens me to think that other loving dogs waiting behind bars in shelters missed out on a good home because we thought we needed a certain breed of puppy.

There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals waiting in shelters and rescues — there is no reason why anyone should have to purchase a dog from a store that fuels this sort of abuse.