Moments in the Deep South: How the Charleston Animal Society turned scandal into lifesaving — When the Charleston Animal Society faced a massive scandal after years
of high kill rates in the shelter, it might have been the end of the line.
When the Charleston Animal Society faced a massive scandal after years
of high kill rates in the shelter, it might have been the end of the line.
The company's post-operational survey work is deeply flawed too, the author says, and refers to work done at Wolfe Island, which is now known as a wind power project with one
of the highest kill rates for birds in North America.
Not exact matches
However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being
killed at significantly
higher rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those deaths — those
of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.
«The old adage is: «Bull markets don't die
of old age, they are
killed by
higher interest
rates.»
«Whichever company has the
highest rate of innovation — unless that company is actively
killed by its competitors in some way that's nefarious, or shoots itself in the foot — it will at some point exceed those competitors.»
This puts a stake in the heart
of the pernicious «2 / 28s,» which carried low, «affordable»
rates for the first two years and
killed you with
higher rates in year three.
While the prospect
of higher interest
rates will keep investors on edge, it's not like we're returning to double - digit levels or the Fed is moving its terminal rate.So even the uptick in ten - year yields to 3 % or even 3.25 % is unlikely to
kill the equity market rally as the benefits from fiscal stimulus should continue to feed through the markets.
The Minister
of State for Finance has rejected consideration
of these proposals, arguing that the economy is still too fragile and that
higher contribution
rates would
kill jobs and result in lower disposable income for workers.
Who gives a damn if the atheist
rate is
higher per capita, the REAL NUMBERS are 70 out
of 100 babies are being
killed by someone who is religious.
It the region where people with albinism are
killed for sake
of richness (belief), it is the region where people sacrifice even their children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus
high rates of HIV / AIDS.
We are SO righteous here with our war machine, our
high divorce and
high rate of killing, raping, and scamming each other — from a group
of people that believe in some other God.
Good organisation, strong solidarity,
high work
rate, moments
of brilliance and moments where we needed to hang on because that is important as well and overall because we could
kill the game and we had the chances to do it.
Those against FreshDirect have sited concerns like increased pollution from delivery trucks that lead to
higher rates of asthma, increased traffic, and a decrease on green space on the waterfront along the Bronx
Kill.
Although considered one
of the most successful predators on Earth due to the
high kill -
rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.
How Your Job Is
Killing You In the early 1970s a project tracking 18,000 male British civil servants found that the lowest - ranking white - collar workers had the
highest rates of premature death.
Despite its
high mortality
rate, H7N9 had gotten less attention
of late than two other new strains — H5N8 and H5N6 — that have spread swiftly,
killing or forcing authorities to cull millions
of poultry.
More than 11,000 people in the United States are
killed each year as a result
of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide
rate in the U.S. is seven times
higher than in the average
high - income country.
We know that those with metabolic states resulting from a
high - carbohydrate diet — including
high blood sugar levels,
high insulin levels, and obesity — have
higher rates of cancer and do more poorly during cancer treatment.13 — 16 We also know that multiple pathways that are downregulated by a ketogenic diet also render cells more susceptible to being
killed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy.17
Remember, «the dose makes the poison» — doubling the
rate of pathogen
killing may quadruple the toxicity effects, so the optimum course is not the one with
highest rate of pathogen
killing.
I love a luxury consignment website much as the next girl, buying
high quality luxury items you've been lusting after for so long for a fraction
of the price and a guarantee for authenticity is nothing short
of a dream, but the USD - CAD conversion
rate and the custom taxes started to
kill me a while ago so I had to say a sad goodbye to the opportunity to shop good for less.
The
rates of black and Native American women
killed are significantly
higher than white or Asian women... murders were committed by spouses than dating partners.
The Act
of Killing and Blue is the Warmest Color were named
Highest Rated Documentary and Foreign film.
My Bloody Valentine 3 - D (R for profanity, gruesome violence, grisly images, explicit sexuality and graphic nudity)
High attrition -
rate slasher flick about a coal miner (Jensen Ackles) who returns to his hometown
of Harmony exactly 10 years after the slaughter
of 22 locals by a deranged murderer on Valentine's Day only to discover another madman embarking on a similar
killing spree.
When seeking a large unsecured loan with bad credit, it was not the low score that
killed off approval chances
of, but the affordability
of a loan when a
high rate of interest is charged.
Since rising interest
rates affect everything badly, we could get
killed even worse if the Fed raises
rates, or the economy in general experiences
higher interest
rates beyond the control
of those in control, or gets out
of control.
High interest
rates on your credit cards can really
kill any hopes
of being able to pay off your balance.
This has led to some borrowers being unable to access such services from the lenders thus leaving them to the mercies
of unscrupulous lenders out to make a
kill with their
high - interest
rates, or even pawning one's assets off.
They don't attack like most dogs but only if it's a completely necessary situation and out
of all dogs that attack they have the
highest kill rate I have been around a lot
of dogs and have even had small medium and large dogs... evenhad a half wiener half chihuahua.
We also try to help minimize euthanasia
rate of healthy, adoptable dogs by rescuing them from
high kill facilities.
After the humane society implemented this idea, Dr. Beall and her husband (and others) were able to become approved caregivers to neutered feral cats, which helps with the pest control many Chicagoans experience, as well as the
high rate of kills and disposals
of these cats.
Under his leadership, Animal Ark created the first No -
Kill community in Minnesota and maintains one
of the
highest save
rates in the nation.
I argued that the problem with investigating the Lost Dogs» Home for its allegedly
high kill rates, is that there is no mandated standard for acceptable
kill rates in the Code
of Practice.
We are lucky to be fully funded by our supporters, receiving no public funds for our work with the homeless pets
of Washington's Long Beach Peninsula, and the dogs we are able to pull from
high kill -
rate shelters in the region.
While it is true that euthanasia is a fact
of animal pound and shelter operations in Victoria, the question this audit is answering is not whether euthanasia is ever appropriate, but whether the LDH
kill rate is
higher than acceptable, measured against similar organisations.
Being somewhat familiar with the Miami Shelter and their
high kill rates I am
of 2 minds for this location.
«In the Southeastern region
of the United States, many shelters are overwhelmed, which tragically results in
high kill rates,» said Andee Bingham with Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.
New Hampshire's Peter Marsh, director
of Solution to Overpopulation
of Pets, said regulations only explain part
of the gap between areas with
high and low
kill rates.
Liberia faces many problems — recovering from a terrible civil war, a
high unemployment
rate, poor infrastructure, and low literacy, the country was most recently hit by the Ebola crisis
of 2014 that
killed more than 4,000 people nationwide.
Many
of the dogs that are routinely euthanized in Southern states — healthy Labs, hounds, shepherds and others, including puppies
of various breeds — are in
high demand in the Northeast, where low - cost spay and neuter services are the norm,
kill rates are down, and there are exponentially more potential adopters.
Many shelters are under financial constraints themselves and, especially in rural areas with low
rates of spaying and neutering, often have
high kill rates.
I learned so much about the need for increased promotion
of shelter dogs, especially those at
kill - shelters like AC&C, where the euthanasia
rates are simply too
high.
Barnette and a coalition
of no -
kill supporters attribute the dramatic drop to fewer intakes,
higher rates of spays and neuters by private groups and more homes found for unwanted pets via adoptions, rescue partners and animal transports to other states.
Most
of the controversy centers around Lucas County's
high kill rate — according to their own figures, they
kill around 77 %
of the dogs that come into their shelter — totalling nearly 2500 dogs
killed last year and 1848
killed so far this year.
To achieve that goal, the Alliance, a 501 (c)(3) not - for - profit corporation, helps its Alliance Participating Organizations work to their
highest potential to increase pet adoptions and spay / neuter
rates, with the goal
of transforming New York City into a no -
kill community by 2015.
``... the ecological and conservation significance
of these
kill tallies is difficult to contextualise, because (1) there are no reliable estimates
of the total population
of birds in Australia; (2) predation may fall disproportionately on some bird species; (3) some bird species may be able to sustain
high mortality
rates and maintain viable populations but others may not; and (4) as demonstrated here, there is substantial spatial variation in the numbers and proportion
of birds
killed across Australia.»
The
higher the «
kill rate»
of a shelter, the less likely it is that the dog will be taken there.
PETA's
rate of killing is 530 %
higher for dogs and 158 %
higher for cats that the average
of all pounds and shelters.
The puppies and dogs that are available for adoption from Pups2Luv have been rescued from
high kill rate shelters up and down the East Coast, abandoned on the side
of the road, dumped in the garbage, left behind when people moved, given up when the kids got tired
of them, or became unwanted «property» in a divorce.
In 2005, we began this organization with a vision for a No
Kill Austin — an open - admission municipal animal shelter with a 90 % or
higher save
rate — at a time when the city was
killing 55 %
of impounded animals and over 14,000 a year.