Sentences with phrase «only public shelter»

PACC is the only public shelter serving Pima County and it is high volume, taking in some 16,000 to 18,000 animals per year.

In Chicago, the only public shelter that includes men is administered by Catholic Charities.

Not exact matches

Researchers focused their study on 100 municipalities in Colorado, the only state to compile public data for animal shelter surrenders and other statistics.

In the words of one Connecticut Supreme Court justice, public education is vital «not only because our state constitution declares it as such, but because education is the very essence and foundation of a civilized culture... it is as necessary to a civilized society as food and shelter are to an individual.»

Sometimes referred to as a tax - sheltered annuity plan or TSA, a 403 (b) is a retirement - savings option that's generally offered only to employees of colleges and universities, public schools, certain nonprofit organizations, and churches.

Four towns in Creek County have public animal shelters (Bristow, Drumright, Oilton and Sapulpa) yet the populations of those towns represent only 40 % of those living in Creek County; those who live, «in the county,» have no access to a shelter.

However, currently only five of the 77 Oklahoma counties have a public animal shelter for residents of the entire county.

As part of a public / private partnership with the City of Los Angeles, Best Friends Animal Society, the only national animal welfare organization focused on ending the killing of shelter pets, operates a Pet Adoption & Spay / Neuter Center at a city - owned facility in Mission Hills at its own expense.

Bulldogs and pitties are no longer rescue only at this shelter and are available for adoption to the public!

Richmond Animal Care & Control (RACC) was established as the first city pound June 5, 1902 and since then it has served as the only open admission public shelter in the City of Richmond.

Until Puppies and Babies and their sister store, Pets of Bel Air stop selling live animals, the activists claim they will continue their siege in the hopes that this chain will succumb to public pressure to go humane and only adopt out animals from shelters with the help of local rescue organizations.

Under the proposed legislation lethal injection using sodium pentobarbital or a derivative, a procedure known as EBI, would be the only allowed method of euthanasia for animals in North Carolina's public shelters.

But if Joe Public wants a puppy for the family and doesn't know about the shelter, or has heard it's a hell hole (as many are), or can't get there during work hours (the only time they're open, often), or gets treated rudely by people who work there, why is he NOT going to just go to a pet store and pick up a pricey pup?

The idea was to stick it to the public and put it in their face to get them to keep their animals or flock to shelters to adopt, but it only ended up hurting the animals.

SPCA Tampa Bay is the only non-profit, open - admission animal shelter and public veterinary center in Pinellas County.

«The Vet Pets program places them in view of the public at about five weeks old, so it not only takes them out of the shelter and decreases our euthanasia rate, but it also gets them adopted more quickly once they do reach eight weeks.»

Furry Friends is the only no - kill shelter open to the public in northern Palm Beach County.

Instead, shelters can focus on public safety and humane care by taking in dangerous, sick, or injured cats, and focus on lifesaving by taking in only those that are likely to be adopted.

Not only can they not take on more shelter animals, they also can not accommodate the myriad of kittens they are handed by the public at adoption sites.

Only animal sheltering agencies (public or private) and rescue groups are considered for the Second Chance ® Fund.

Both are non-profit groups, and both are the only public animal shelters that serve their entire counties.

Susie had become so frustrated, reactive, and difficult to manage in the shelter environment that she was put in a special place in the shelter where the public wouldn't be able to get her out of her kennel and only staff worked with her.

Historically Yolo County Animal Services in California, a public animal shelter, had a cat live release rate of only 30 percent, with an adoption rate of only 11 percent.

The Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control (FSFACC) is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds for the city's municipal, open - door animal shelter, San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC), and its partnering rescue groups, in order to establish or enhance programs of human welfare, comfort and placement, public service and humane education.

The public has been taught that bringing any cat to the shelter, whether stray or a pet they can no longer keep, is not only an easy and low - cost option, it is also the right thing to do for the cat.

The shelter is seeking volunteers (those interested should call 707-253-4382), but is asking the public to only bring in animals who need emergency help.

It's the only shelter in SF to provide lost / found services for the public's missing animals.

Some public animal shelters around the world euthanize animals that are not adopted within a set period of time (usually 1 to 2 weeks); others have a policy of only putting down animals that are in distress due to age or illness.

CACC is the city's only municipally - run, open - admission animal shelter, open to the public 365 days of the year.

The campaign itself has been phenomenally successful, since not only the public, but animal shelters and rescue groups willing to promulgate it, even where there is no evidence to suggest it's true.

The goal is for shelters and rescues to euthanize only those animals who are terminally ill or pose a threat to the public in some way.

Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control (FSFACC) is the only organization dedicated to raising funds for the City's municipal, open - admission animal shelter and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit animals, and serve and educate the public.

The new winter hours only decreases the shelter's hours of operation open to the public by one hour per week.

Each blind eye turned and each handshake extended to the killers at PETA strengthens PETA's ability to not only continue harming animals with impunity, but to use their increasing influence, power, and wealth to undermine the efforts of those laboring to protect the lives of community cats, pit bull dogs, and shelter animals whose killing PETA publicly champions to the American public and our elected officials.

At the time of the original NACA review, Summit County's shelter was open to the public only 28 hours each week (10:00 — 3:00 Monday — Friday; 12:00 — 3:00 on Saturdays), prompting the study team to comment: «current shelter hours do not favor today's working households.»

Last year, her municipal shelter, the only public animal shelter in the county, with an annual canine intake of approximately 3,000 dogs, opted to close its canine areas when canine parvovirus occurred in its wards.

Such a law is not only necessary, reasonable and an effective means of saving lives, its passage would also bring Florida's sheltering procedures more in line with the humane, progressive values of the American public.

Thinking they are saving these dogs, the public is increasingly backing laws banning sales of pure - bred commercially sourced dogs, and permitting only sales from animal shelters and rescue groups.

We only accept animals from the public that were originally adopted at our shelter.

That means only two states, Minnesota and Oklahoma, still require pound seizure, the practice of requiring public shelters to sell or provide animals for research.

The Burbank Animal Shelter, as a public operated shelter, can not refuse to take in any animal; however we only accept animals that originate from within the City of BShelter, as a public operated shelter, can not refuse to take in any animal; however we only accept animals that originate from within the City of Bshelter, can not refuse to take in any animal; however we only accept animals that originate from within the City of Burbank.

To achieve its mission of elevating Montgomery County to a No - Kill Community, the group promotes programs that not only inform the public but also help reduce the number of companion animals entering shelters and to increase the number of furry friends leaving shelters alive.

Instead, they are proposing that a «private shelter» only has to do any three things out of the following five: advertise to the general public animals that are available for adoption, transfer animals to another shelter, offer services to the public to keep animals in their homes, utilize foster care, or be accessible to the public.

A volunteer, rescuer, or any other member of the public not only has the First Amendment right to speak out against abuses and violations of law committed by a government shelter, he or she also has a constitutionally protected right to demand that the government correct the wrongs that are identified.

The idea behind EPTP is that we need it to accurately evaluate public shelters that take in only vicious and terminally ill animals because they are diverting all the healthy and treatable animals.

This idea makes some sense in theory, but in all my researches I have yet to see an example of a public shelter that has a low live release rate because it is taking in only tough cases and diverting the easy cases.

As Kansas City's only open admission shelter, we accept pets from the public both as strays and owner surrendered pets.

No only are volunteers and rescuers likely to complain about shelter operations, but they are likely to go public with those complaints, too, exposing those shelters to public scrutiny and criticism.

Not only should the regulations require all of the things in the proposed regulation (rather than just three of them), but they should also require shelters to remain in compliance with all laws and regulations, maintain daily adoption hours when the public can visit without an appointment, and maintain a live release rate of at least 51 %, if not more, so that more animals are saved than killed.

The public acquires only 14 % of its pets from shelters; 48 % get their pets as strays, from friends, or from animal rescuers; and 38 % get their pets from breeders or pet stores.