And in situations where the focus is on felines,
other shelter animals still reap indirect benefits.
Not exact matches
Fostering is the most rewarding experience you will have with an
animal, apart from adopting, and it can not only positively change the lives of the
animals that you care for short term, it will make more time, space and resources available to
other animals still in the care of your local
shelter or rescue.
We are
still needing people to come out to foster and adopt becuase while we got a LOT of
animals into temporary housing and adoptive homes yesterday, the
animals will
still be coming into the
shelter while the painting is taking place, but rest assured, we are not euthanizing
animals due to lack of space in the adoption rooms, we will find
other housing in rooms that do not typically house
animals, and will continue to work with rescue groups, and promote fostering and adoptions.
By mandating EBI, the bill will also ban
other outmoded and inhumane methods of destroying
shelter animals that are
still used in North Carolina.
Some of the dogs were strays...
others no longer could live with their families and
still more have been pulled from rural
animal shelters where they were considered «too old» to be adoptable.
Although the county's
animal control office has stopped helping pet owners who can't afford to have their pets neutered, it
still offers aid for neutering in
other circumstances.The office
still will financially assist pet owners who want to sterilize an
animal which has just had a litter, said
animal control director Frankie Thorp.If a pet owner brings those puppies or kittens to the
shelter in Astatula,
animal control will chip in toward the cost of spaying or neutering the offspring's parent, Thorp said.
Like any
other domesticated
animal, they
still need warm
shelter, food and water.
Unfortunately, some
shelters still gas dogs, cats and
other companion
animals.
Explain to your children that preventing the birth of some pets can save the lives of
others and consider fostering a pregnant
animal from a
shelter or rescue group if you
still feel they need to see the «miracle of birth.»
We work with many
shelters including those that are local to us, those in Southern Illinois, Kentucky as well as
other southern states, many of which
still use gas to euthanize their
animals.
First of all, I will not even consider feeding any foods that contain any of the following: meat by - products, poultry by - products, any food with the actual words «meat meal» in the ingredient list (meat meal could potentially contain anything such as diseased or dead / dying
animals, including the possibility of euthenised pets from
shelters (yes with the euthenasia drugs
still in their systems and sometimes even with collars
still on), as well as a legal allowed % of plastic, chemicals and
other unmentionables), soy, corn or any fragments thereof, wheat or any fragments thereof, any kind of gluten or gluten meals, sugar, artificial flavours, artificial colors, BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin
One could argue that neutering and spaying helps reduce overpopulation of unwanted
animals in
shelters, or some
other reason, but it's
still an operation the dog / cat didn't want or agree to.
While it is true that both feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) and its close corollary canine parvovirus (CPV) are «antigenically stable» — meaning they don't change rapidly the way flu and
other viruses do, thus allowing vaccines to remain very effective —
animals in
shelters across the country are
still losing their lives daily to these diseases.
But as we as a nation make great strides in finding homes for dogs in need, our
other companion
animal, the cat, is
still facing high death rates in
shelters.
Explain to your children that preventing the birth of some pets can save the lives of
others and consider fostering a pregnant
animal from a
shelter if you
still feel the need to see the «miracle of birth.»