Sentences with phrase «of the million cat»

And just to put a final positive spin on the year that's coming to an end: 2017 is the year the animal shelters of the Million Cat Challenge, which we co-founded with the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, passed the 1 million cats saved mark.

She's a pioneer in the field of shelter medicine, author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and textbook chapters, and is a co-founder of the Million Cat Challenge., a shelter - based campaign to save the lives of one million cats in North America over a five - year period.)

The Million Cat Challenge Removing barriers to adoption is one of the five key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge.

Is your organization an animal welfare group, rescue or foster network, veterinary or spay / neuter clinic, TNR program, or other great organization that shares the vision of the Million Cat Challenge?

Speaking of the Million Cat Challenge: Four years ago, we came together at the exact same conference and challenged ourselves to achieve an absurdly audacious goal: to save 1 million more shelter cats in five years.

«Our goal is to save the lives of 574 cats as part of the Million Cat initiative.»

Sponsored by Maddie's Fund, the goal of the Million Cat Challenge is to save the lives of one million cats in North America over afive - year period.

Maybe I'm being naïve, but yesterday's launch of the Million Cat Challenge felt like something historic — as if we've entered into a new era of animal sheltering where cats are concerned.

This webcast is the first in a five - part series on the key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge.

What real - world difference can the initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge make in an animal shelter?

We offer webcasts that feature a line - up of municipal officials, shelter directors, shelter managers and veterinarians in a five - part series on the key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge, with a focus on actionable tools and tips you can put into practice right away, along with longer - term strategies to success in saving cats» lives — most of which will help dogs, too!

That's the premise of the Million Cat Challenge, a joint campaign of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program and the Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida.

Beginning Tuesday, April 7, and running through May 5, 2015, a line - up of municipal officials, shelter directors, shelter managers, and veterinarians will be joining us for a five - part series on the key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge, with a focus on actionable tools and tips you can put into practice right away, along with longer - term strategies to success in saving cats» lives — most of which will help dogs, too!

This webcast is the fourth in a five - part series on the key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge.

Widespread participation will be a foundation for success of the Million Cat Challenge.

Removing barriers to adoption is one of the five key initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge.

If a shelter is able to reduce euthanasia by even one cat, that is an achievement to be celebrated as part of the Million Cat Challenge.

In addition, Dr. Pizano encourages everyone in the animal welfare world to connect with others, to become part of Million Cat Challenge, and to become a Best Friends Network partner so that everyone can get the help they need and know that there's a better way than using euthanasia as population control.

As part of the Million Cat Challenge we are proud to be among the first Ontario shelters to bring this program into Ontario, and are pleased to see more and more shelters initiate life - saving programs like SNR.

SCIENCE, COMMON SENSE, INNOVATION, AND COMPASSION: THE PRINCIPLES AT THE HEART OF THE MILLION CAT CHALLENGE

Not exact matches

From Mean Kitty to Colonel Meow, Internet cats with their memes and videos continue to garner millions of combined likes, shares, pins, and views, proving these Internet sensations are here to stay.

Grumpy Cat has millions of followers on Facebook, and half a million on Instagram.

Otto's default mode is to use its bright, f / 2 aperture, glass lens and quarter - inch CMOS (complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor) sensor to make the stop - action movies commonly known as GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format), of which you've seen a million or so devoted to cats.

Any blow to the British car industry, which was dogged by wild - cat strikes and poor productivity in the 1970s and 1980s, could undo years of recent progress with output currently expected to reach a record high of 2 million by 2020.

The $ 151 million in Chinese imports only make up a tiny portion of the multibillion - dollar US dog and cat food market.

«PetSmart about 13 years ago committed most of its philanthropic activity to ending euthanasia of companion pets... And needless to add, that's 2.5 million dogs and cats needing food and toys, and driving revenue and shareholder value.»

If Walmart executives did this to even one dog or cat instead of millions of pigs, they would be thrown in jail.

The Scottish forward is wanted by Sunderland and it is understood that the Black Cats submitted a final bid of # 12 million for Fletcher on Tuesday.

This could open the door for Newcastle, or Premier League rivals West Ham United, with Wickham potentially available for a fee of as little as # 6 million — less than the # 8m that the Black Cats initially paid to secure Wickham from Ipswich.

When Manchester United missed out on a goalkeeper of Manuel Neuer's calibre to replace the flying Dutchman Van Der Saar only to sign this lean, cat - like - reflexive Spaniard back in 2011, not many supporters welcomed that move, so much so for a record fee of around # 17.8 million (British record for a goalkeeper).

10 million cedis Peruvian hair nicely woven on her skull in a way that makes her blush World trade center bag effortlessly fixed on the radius of her arm without a dash Off to town she sets, cat - walking and parading herself like a model Where...

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the leading non-profit devoted to animal welfare, reports that in the 1970s American shelters euthanized between 12 and 20 million cats and dogs every year at a time when there were 67 million pets in U.S. homes.

Over millions of years, wild cats have learned how to live with a virus quite similar to one that's killing us.

«It's just, «Here's a few million pictures of cats.

The hardy nature of the parasite, combined with the huge numbers of domestic cats (around 70 million domestic and 60 million feral felines in the U.S. alone), gives some idea of the potential scale of the problem.

By calculating and comparing how much meat 163 million cats and dogs eat compared to 321 million Americans, Okin determined how many tons of greenhouse gases are tied to pet food.

One of the specimens of Paramys was a large rodent by modern standards — about three kilograms, roughly the size of a small cat — that lived during the mid-Eocene, some 47 to 49 million years ago.

«The truth about cats» and dogs» environmental impact: Researcher finds that feeding pets creates the equivalent of 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.»

Every day, millions of people click on Facebook «Like» buttons, boldly declaring their preferences for a variety of things, such as books, movies, and cat videos.

Okin calculated that meat - eating by dogs and cats creates the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which has about the same climate impact as a year's worth of driving from 13.6 million cars.

Yet an Asian origin for big cats was disputed because there was no fossil evidence during that 7 - million - year gap, says Zhijie Jack Tseng at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Tseng and his colleagues have uncovered a partial skull, a jawbone and a few teeth belonging to a species of big cat in the Zanda basin in the south - west Tibetan plateau, dated to 5.95 to 4.10 million years ago (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.2686).

Australia annually spends millions of dollars removing cats and foxes, which are responsible for most of the country's mammal extinctions.

Nearly two weeks later, on March 16, Menu Foods, a Canadian - based pet food manufacturer, announced the recall of over 60 million cans and pouches of wet cat and dog food produced in facilities in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., between December 3, 2006 and March 6.

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

She is from FoundAnimals.org and she'll be talking about a program aimed at trying to develop a nonsurgical method for neutering the millions of dogs and cats that each year have operations or add to the overpopulation problem.

It can be up to eight million animals, cats and dogs, going to shelters every year, and about half of those animals are euthanized.

Yet the bear's cortex contained roughly the same number of neurons as a cat, some 250 million.

But according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of experimental cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, sheep, swine and primates has been dropping, from 1.5 million (not including many farm animals that are now counted) in 1973 to 1 million in 2006.