Not exact matches
Ferret
owners can set up a playground in the play area with toys such as tubes, tunnels, tents, castles, bridges, huts and fabric
animal «
houses,» and then prepare them ahead
of time by hiding treats inside the toys to encourage their pets to search for them.
Camille Hulen,
owner of Camille's Cat
House and an
animal welfare advocate, says, «If you buy a purebred
animal from a breeder, an
animal in a shelter will die because you did not choose it.
Our architect, consulting with a firm which specializes in
animal shelter design, is working to design a facility that will create more comfortable
housing of animals, places for potential
owners to interact with adoptable
animals,
animal isolation and treatment areas, and more space for the staff.
The lack
of house training is the number one reason that dogs wind up neglected, abandoned, or in
animal shelters, but it's the failure
of the
owner - not the puppy.
This is the statement that the Minister released announcing the proposed review, «Minister for Agriculture, Jaala Pulford, has directed authorised officers within the Department to investigate allegations relating to high euthanasia rates, accommodation and
housing of animals, identification
of animals»
owners and the assessment
of animals for re-homing.»
Demonstrate ability to educate
owner regarding the biological needs (
housing, routine care, general feeding guidelines)
of one small
animal and one large
animal species *
Minister for Agriculture, Jaala Pulford, has directed authorised officers within the Department to investigate allegations relating to high euthanasia rates, accommodation and
housing of animals, identification
of animals»
owners and the assessment
of animals for re-homing.»
A complete line
of prescription pet foods and an in -
house pharmacy are here for pet
owners to get their
animal on track for a speedy recovery and optimal health.
There are thousands
of animal shelters and rescues in existence that serve the purpose
of temporarily
housing homeless
animals until they can be placed with new
owners.
We tailor a parasite prevention program for each pet based upon the number and types
of animals in the
house and the lifestyle
of both the pet and the
owner.
DELTONA - Authorities on Thursday were still trying to locate the
owners of 11 dogs rescued Wednesday from a makeshift puppy mill at a flea - infested
house on Newmark Drive.Jerry Swanger, Deltona
Animal Control manager, said a warrant had been issued charging John Barcero, the dogs» owner - who lived in the house along with his mother, Barbara Corretjer - with animal neglect and cr
Animal Control manager, said a warrant had been issued charging John Barcero, the dogs»
owner - who lived in the
house along with his mother, Barbara Corretjer - with
animal neglect and cr
animal neglect and cruelty.
«We got an anonymous call Thursday saying the dogs were at their
owners»
house,» said Jerry Swanger, Deltona
Animal Control manager.The dogs - which a Volusia circuit judge sentenced to death last month because
of their aggression toward people and because they have killed five cats - disappeared Oct. 31 from the shelter, where workers found a lock cut and a kennel door pried open.
In addition to strays, it
housed a number
of animals whose
owners had been made homeless by the storm, and hadn't immediately found a place to stay that would accept pets.
We at KCDA keep hearing stories
of animals getting confiscated from
owners due to inadequate
housing (even though Spay / Neuter Kansas City's outreach program has free dog
houses available to needy families),
animals confiscated from
owners because they are not altered under the mandatory spay / neuter ordinance for pit bulls, and others that are confiscated because they can not afford the fine associated with having not licensed their dog.
EARS works on several fronts: They accept
animals from
owners who need temporary help with
housing or feeding; respond to reports
of animals abandoned or lost in the flood area; take in
animals picked up from the flood area by the dog wardens; and give food to flood victims so they can feed their pets.
«Slow introductions are best for bringing a new
animal into a
house,» says Kenneth Porte, DVM,
owner of Tri City Veterinary Clinic in Vista, Ca.
It refers usually to companion
animal species and means an ethical stance to never convenience kill eg because an
animal is sick or because the pet's
owner is moving
house or any other number
of common and frequently inadequate reasons.
For pet
owners, the inability to find pet friendly
housing is one
of the leading causes
of animal abandonment.
House Bill 1103 aims to strengthen existing law by requiring
animal shelters with some form
of identification or notification information about a found
animal to contact the
owner within 48 hours.
Windward
Animal Hospital and Georgia
House Rabbit Society are working together to fill a need in the rabbit community at affordable prices while maintaining a level
of health care recommended to all rabbit
owners.
The shelter put together a broad coalition
of veterinarians, foster homes, and volunteers and received donations to cover the cost
of shipping
animals to the Cincinnati area for
housing until their
owners could be found or the dogs and cats could be offered for placement in new homes.
Ohio's Montgomery County
Animal Shelter raised money and used some
of its own late last year to have this dog treated for smoke inhalation after one
of its
owners died in a
house fire and her significant other couldn't afford to treat the dog or pick him up.
More space is needed to comfortably
house the number
of animals we typically have awaiting adoption, as well as for those waiting to be claimed by their
owners.
• Total number
of nationwide
animal shelters 5,000 • Number
of companion
animals that enter into
animal shelters nationwide annually 5 million • Average annual number
of companion
animals that are euthinized at shelters 3.5 million • Percent
of dogs in
animals shelters that are euthanized 60 % • Percent
of cats in
animal shelters that are euthanized 70 % • Percent
of cats that are returned to their
owners 2 % • Percent
of dogs returned to their
owners 15 % • Total percentage
of dogs claimed to be spayed or neutered 78 % • Total percentage
of cats that are claimed to be spayed or neutered 88 % • Total number
of animals that end up in a shelter that are spayed or neutered 10 % • Percent
of dogs brought to shelters that were adopted by a shelter 20 % • Percent
of dogs and cats that are adopted from shelters 25 % • Total number
of dogs and cats that are bought at pet stores 6 % • Percentage
of people that get their pets free or at low cost 65 % • Cost
of taxpayer money annually to round up,
house, kill and dispose
of homeless
animals $ 2 billion • Total percentage
of dogs in shelters that are purebred 25 % • Total percentage
of U.S. homes who own at least 1 companion
animal 63 % • Total number
of homes that own at least 1 companion
animal 70 million • Tags:
The next time Rover and Kitty stray from home, Deltona pet
owners may have to drive to Daytona Beach to fetch them.The City Commission plans to decide Monday night whether to place impounded
animals at the Halifax Humane Society's shelter on LPGA Boulevard.That's because the West Volusia Humane Society's shelter in DeLand - one
of two shelters currently
housing Deltona's unwanted
animals - is cramped.If the change is approved, Fire Chief Bob Rogers said, the Daytona Beach shelter would replace the DeLand site.
The
owners of the
house phoned the emergency hotline
of a large
animal protection agency to appraise them
of the situation.
Our
animal hospital is equipped with a surgical suite, radiology facility, laboratory, boarding facility, dog groomer services, an in -
house pharmacy and intensive care unit: facilities that allow pet
owners to make one stop for all aspects
of their pets medical care.
Shelters usually spare
animals from life on the streets or from euthanasia by providing them temporary
housing and trying to find them new
owners, while ACE recommended charities tend to spare
animals from life in industrial agriculture by reducing the size
of the factory farming industry (preventing new farmed
animals from coming into existence) and reducing the suffering
of existing farmed
animals by, for example, getting companies to adopt cage - free or other similar policies.
Whether the
animal is an
owner surrender, a victim
of a natural disaster, from a puppy mill, a hoarder or a kill shelter, HART works with local veterinarians, foster homes and trainers to provide temporary
housing, medical care and where appropriate, training for our
animals until s / he is placed in a loving, carefully screened forever home.
The removal
of habitats to build
houses and unsupervised domestic
animals, whether dogs or cats is all in the hands
of the
owner!
Some have been trapped by local
animal control jurisdictions, some have been surrendered to local shelters by their
owners but are considered unadoptable as «
house cats» due to lack
of socialization (often times from hoarding situations where there were too many cats to socialize and care for).
Spend time with a rabbit playing and handling it at the pet store,
animal shelter, local rescue group or
house of a rabbit
owner.
Cats are relinquished by
owners for reasons similar to those for dog surrender: moving, landlord doesn't allow pets, too many
animals in household, cost
of maintenance, personal problems
of owner, inadequate facilities, no homes available for litters, allergies in family,
house soiling, and incompatibility with other pets.
In 1998, Ohio HB 437, an anti-cruelty bill supported by the Humane Society
of the US, was referred to the
House Agriculture Committee after a floor fight over provisions denying due process to
animal owners, and there it died when...
Update Mar. 3, 2010: The Senate as well as the
House have now passed Utah bill, H.B. 107, which would make pound seizure discretionary instead
of mandatory for Utah public shelters and also improve laws requiring public shelters to search for
owners and find homes for
animals.
Among the top reasons given by
owners who relinquish their cats, according to the Journal
of Applied
Animal Welfare Science: too many in the
house; allergies; moving; cost
of pet maintenance; landlord issues; no homes for litter mates;
house soiling; personal problems; pet illness; and inadequate facilities.
This is why so many pet
owners prefer to get their
animals out
of the
house and put them in doggy day care.
Instead, it appears that a central shelter that impounds
animals before diverting them to rescues, treats most
of the treatable ones in -
house, and centralizes return - to -
owner and lost - and - found, is the more efficient arrangement.
Shelters that
house pets with microchips are able to find the stray
animals»
owners in 75 %
of cases, according to these astounding results.
The group organized in 2009 in response to proposed state legislation that would have required
animal control officers in Illinois to seize and impound any cat found «at large,» even those whose
owners had let them out
of their
house for only a short period.
Through this partnership, the citizens
of Des Moines and their
animals benefit because the ARL is able to offer education, services (such free or low - cost spay / neuter services), and pet supplies (such as dog
houses, collars, tags, and more) to pet
owners who could not otherwise afford them.
The diet and how the
animal is fed may be influenced by its environment which includes, but is not limited to, the number and type
of the
animals in the household, where the
animal is
housed (i.e., indoors versus outdoors), the human inhabitants
of the
house (i.e., a household with small children, elderly individuals or adults only), and the feeding philosophies
of the
owner.
Pets are Wonderful Support (PAWS) provides VET SOS with storage space and supplemental supplies
of pet food to VET SOS and enrolls eligible clients for additional PAWS services, such as: discounted preventative and emergency vet care, emergency foster care, and PAWS also provides VET SOS clients free information on safe pet guidelines for immunocompromised pet
owners and their physicians, and counseling and advocacy in regard to
animals in rental
housing and service
animal licensing.
We have continued to offer our 24/7 injured stray
animal rescue service county - wide; returned 219 lost pets to their worried
owners; provided no - cost safe
housing for 27 pets
of victims
of domestic violence and other emergencies; donated nearly 2,000 pounds
of pet food to area food banks for low - income pet
owners; and have reached hundreds
of community members through special events, tours, and presentations to school kids and adults.
Do you think that forcing a pet
owner to be responsible for the costs
of housing their
animals at shelters if they decided they didn't want the
animal anymore (similar to how we currently lease cars \ alimony payments) would help to prevent the amount
of pets which are euthanized?
The Great Neck area, part
of Long Island's Gold Coast, for book readers stimulates fond memories
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, for steak connoisseurs memories
of Peter Luger Steak
House, and for pet
owners memories
of Terrace
Animal Clinic serving Nassau County and Queens.
Any
animal with a current rabies vaccination (proof required) may be confined at the
owner's residence; provided they have a secure location to
house their pet for the ten - day period and their pet was under control at the time
of the bite.
The
animals housed at the Jefferson County
Animal Shelter come from a variety
of sources, such as: Pets that are relinquished by their initial
owners because
of a move, allergies or a lifestyle change.
Pennsylvania: ACCT Philly: (pet food, referrals for low - cost spay / neuter and wellness services) Action for
Animals Humane Society: Latrobe (spay / neuter assistance) Animal Care & Assistance Fund (veterinary care assistance) Animal Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley: (pet food for families in need) Animal Friends: Pittsburgh (pet food, spay / neuter assistance) Animal House Project: (pet food for low - income residents of Chester County) The Animal Rescue of Western Pennsylvania (veterinary care assistance) Chester County Pet Food Pantry: Chester, eastern Berks and Montgomery counties (pet food & care assistance) Delaware County SPCA: (spay / neuter and wellness services) Forgotten Cats, Inc.: Willow Grove (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Henry's Cupboard at the Brandywine Valley SPCA: West Chester (pet food pantry) Humane Society of Berks County: Reading (pet food and veterinary care assistance) Humane Society of Harrisburg Area: (pet food pantry, low - cost spay / neuter services, wellness clinics, microchipping) Humane Society of Westmoreland County: Greenberg (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Red Paw Emergency Relief Team: Philadelphia (emergency assistance including search & rescue, emergency transport, shelter, and veterinary care to animals involved in fires and other residential disasters) Rescue Pet Food Pantry: (provides pet food to 501 (c) 3 rescues to free up financial resources) Sam's Hope: Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties (pet food and veterinary care assistance for pet owners with demonstrated financial hardship) Spay / Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.: Harrisburg (low - cost spay / neuter) Washington Area Humane Society: Eighty Four (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) Western Pennsylvania Humane Society: Pittsburgh (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care Wilkes Barre Animal Hospital: Wilkes Barre (spay / neuter assistance for cats) Pet Pantry of Lancaster County: (pet food, spay / neuter and wellness services, community cat program) Pennsylvania SPCA: Philadelphia (spay / neuter and wellness se
Animals Humane Society: Latrobe (spay / neuter assistance)
Animal Care & Assistance Fund (veterinary care assistance)
Animal Food Bank
of the Lehigh Valley: (pet food for families in need)
Animal Friends: Pittsburgh (pet food, spay / neuter assistance)
Animal House Project: (pet food for low - income residents
of Chester County) The
Animal Rescue
of Western Pennsylvania (veterinary care assistance) Chester County Pet Food Pantry: Chester, eastern Berks and Montgomery counties (pet food & care assistance) Delaware County SPCA: (spay / neuter and wellness services) Forgotten Cats, Inc.: Willow Grove (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Henry's Cupboard at the Brandywine Valley SPCA: West Chester (pet food pantry) Humane Society
of Berks County: Reading (pet food and veterinary care assistance) Humane Society
of Harrisburg Area: (pet food pantry, low - cost spay / neuter services, wellness clinics, microchipping) Humane Society
of Westmoreland County: Greenberg (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance) Red Paw Emergency Relief Team: Philadelphia (emergency assistance including search & rescue, emergency transport, shelter, and veterinary care to
animals involved in fires and other residential disasters) Rescue Pet Food Pantry: (provides pet food to 501 (c) 3 rescues to free up financial resources) Sam's Hope: Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties (pet food and veterinary care assistance for pet owners with demonstrated financial hardship) Spay / Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.: Harrisburg (low - cost spay / neuter) Washington Area Humane Society: Eighty Four (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) Western Pennsylvania Humane Society: Pittsburgh (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care Wilkes Barre Animal Hospital: Wilkes Barre (spay / neuter assistance for cats) Pet Pantry of Lancaster County: (pet food, spay / neuter and wellness services, community cat program) Pennsylvania SPCA: Philadelphia (spay / neuter and wellness se
animals involved in fires and other residential disasters) Rescue Pet Food Pantry: (provides pet food to 501 (c) 3 rescues to free up financial resources) Sam's Hope: Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties (pet food and veterinary care assistance for pet
owners with demonstrated financial hardship) Spay / Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.: Harrisburg (low - cost spay / neuter) Washington Area Humane Society: Eighty Four (spay / neuter and vaccination assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care) Western Pennsylvania Humane Society: Pittsburgh (spay / neuter assistance, assistance for necessary veterinary medical care Wilkes Barre
Animal Hospital: Wilkes Barre (spay / neuter assistance for cats) Pet Pantry
of Lancaster County: (pet food, spay / neuter and wellness services, community cat program) Pennsylvania SPCA: Philadelphia (spay / neuter and wellness services)
Foster families will comply with all national, state, and local regulations and
housing development or association rules concerning keeping a pet, including, but not limited to, zoning regulations regarding numbers
of animals allowed per home
of the jurisdiction in which the family resides and any rules set forth by the
owner of the home if the
owner is other than the foster family.