If your pet does go missing over the holiday, check immediately and
often with local animal shelters.
Not exact matches
The stress on
shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick
animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting
with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable
animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from
local government; an
Animal Control Officer
often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the
shelter; counties lacking even a
shelter or inside kenneling.
Often,
local shelters and rescue groups are saddled
with the steep expenses of saving,
sheltering, and caring for these
animals in...
Often,
local shelters and rescue groups are saddled
with the steep expenses of saving,
sheltering, and caring for these
animals in desperate need.
When
local animal control agencies
shelters don't have any space or foster homes available for kittens, they
often work
with the East Bay SPCA to find appropriate foster placement.
Cats (and many
animals in general) tend to breed in warm weather, which means
local animal shelters get flooded
with litters, sometimes accompanied by their moms, but very
often orphaned.
Hundreds of
animals in all areas of the region suffer from neglect and abuse every day, and too
often,
local shelters are simply unable to keep up
with the demand for
animal rescue services.
Local shelters often work with local animal control officers in the day to day work of dealing with such offenders and the animals they leave be
Local shelters often work
with local animal control officers in the day to day work of dealing with such offenders and the animals they leave be
local animal control officers in the day to day work of dealing
with such offenders and the
animals they leave behind.