Sentences with phrase «people abandon their cats»

Sad as it is, people abandon cats to fend for themselves on our streets.

They also feel it is better to allow declawing than to have people abandoning their cats because of destructive scratching.

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The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $ 5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for abandoning 24 cats in four small pet carriers, leaving them to starve and suffocate to death in sweltering summer temperatures in Oklahoma City.

Animals come to live in plural households by (1) acquisition — e.g., a family adopts a pet, a member of the household inherits Aunt Celia's African Gray, house partners take in the cat the neighbors abandoned, and so on; or (2) blending — people move in together bringing their respective companion animals to the mix.

Most feral cats were once owned by people who either abandoned them or «lost them,» which simply means they failed to look for them under the mistaken belief that «Tom will come back when he's ready.»

In spite of the lengths and expense to which some people will go to declaw their cats, many declawed cats are found abandoned on the street.

Most feral cats were once owned by people who either abandoned them or «lost them,» which simply means that they failed to look for them under the mistaken belief that «Tom will come back when he's ready.»

Spraying and urinating outside the litter box is the number one reason that people surrender their cats to shelters or abandon them somewhere.

«I remember having the clear feeling that I was taking photos of people,» Italian photographer Sabrina Boem tells me of her first encounter with stray and abandoned cats.

Some people think they enjoy killing the dogs and cats that those same critics abandon.

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $ 5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for mutilating a cat and abandoning her in a park in Simi Valley, Calif..

It hurts Nancy to see so many cats and kittens abandoned, and she wishes more people would accept the responsibility to have their pets neutered.

Some people believe that the Maine Shag originated from house cats that turned feral after they were abandoned.

Anglin doesn't mind spending money to feed cats that other people have abandoned.

According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

Officials also are worried that the cat colonies encourage people to abandon their unwanted pets in the borough.

A majority are found in apartment complexes and low - income areas, but LaCrosse said they can be found in almost any neighborhood where people either have moved away and abandoned their cats or where cats have not been spayed or neutered.

In Joplin, Mo., after the tornado in May killed 160 people, the ASPCA took 1,300 lost or abandoned dogs and cats into an emergency animal shelter.

While thousands of people have fled Syria, and more flee every day, Aljaleel says he will never abandon the cats, referring to them as his friends.

This rule should apply to all people who allow their cats to breed and then give the kittens away to homes where they may soon be abandoned.

The municipality agreed to close the gates of the park from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. as a security measure to prevent people from abandoning their cats there.

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Shelter workers and management believed that cats who were not social with people were like fish out of water, and that they were better off dead than «abandoned» outdoors.

Feral cats are the offspring of lost or abandoned pet cats or other feral cats; they don't typically want to interact with people.

If we inform people on the adequate use of scratching posts and offer alternatives such as Soft Paws - style claw caps, there is no reason for a cat to destroy furniture or harm children and be abandoned for those reasons because... it will not happen, just as it does not in Europe.

Our work doesn't stop there, however: we also provide an array of cat care information via our publications, website and Helpline; promote the benefits of neutering to prevent unwanted litters from being born and becoming the abandoned cats of tomorrow and seek to educate people of all ages about cats and their care.

Pets are often abandoned in the forests by people who truly believe that these domesticated puppies and kittens, dogs and cats will revert back to the wild and learn to fend for themselves.

They may be pets whose owners let them outside, or they could be community cats, a group that includes ferals (who are afraid of people) and strays (who've been lost or abandoned).

Too many people want to give friendly abandoned or lost cats to a shelter, and yet the shelters are overly full.

Without people willing to take lost or abandoned animals into their homes, many of the wonderful dogs and cats we see on a daily basis wouldn't be here.

Yes, but until everyone in the county spays and neuters their cats, and the shockingly high intake numbers at the shelter come down, we need more people like you to commit time and resources to the 4,700 abandoned, homeless, abused and neglected animals that pass through the Shelter doors every year.

This legislation could be used by the SPCA to stop all the hundreds, perhaps thousands of kind - hearted people from taking in an abandoned cat and giving it a new home or advertising to find the cat's family.

There are millions of compassionate people who provide abandoned cats with food, love, and shelter in their own homes.

There were many feral and abandoned cats there, the result of people «freeing» their unwanted pets or simply not spaying or neutering them.

And just like dogs and cats, the reasons for these companions being surrendered or abandoned can vary: Families move and living situations change, people purchase or adopt an animal without thoroughly considering the responsibility involved, and sometimes life circumstances prevent us from being able to care for our animals.

The neutering service we offer for pet cats and dogs is helping to reduce the numbers of unwanted pet kittens and puppies being born, but unfortunately, it does not take many irresponsible people to continually create new feral cat colonies on the streets by abandoning their unneutered pet cats.

People don't want to keep cats in Beijing any more so they abandon them or send them to the compounds.

Unlike feral cats, the ASPCA defines stray cats as those that have been abandoned or become lost, tend to be tame and can be comfortable around people.

Nevertheless, the law is not well enforced, many abandoned and free - ranging cats are fed outdoors by people, and regular feeding stations can become cat colonies.

Our mission is to serve the people and animals of Central Ohio by providing safe, temporary shelter and care for abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and dogs, and to reduce pet overpopulation by means of spay and neuter, education, and community outreach.

We do significant work with feral cats, especially as the economy has worsened and more people are abandoning their cats to the wilds.

Donated funds go directly towards their programs that include working with the community to sterilize stray and feral cats through TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return), rescue, foster, sterilization and adoption for kittens and abandoned domestic cats, assisting low income families with emergency and wellness veterinary care and subsidize adoption fees for senior cats to senior citizens along with other support programs to help people keep their pets.

I think people are not aware of how many declawed cat have been abandoned or surrendered due to behavior issues stemming from the declaw.

Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to abandon their pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often keep lovingly fed.

«People, not infrequently, abandon cats much more than dogs,» said Peter J. Wolf, founder of Vox Felina, a blog on science and policy issues related to cat - population management.

We have a no - kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and / or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life - saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together.

Many people assume that a stray is lost or abandoned, when in fact the cat knows exactly where it is!

Connect A Pet Rescue, Los Angeles, CA, is dedicated to helping animals in two ways: (1) through the rescue of abused, abandoned, injured dogs and cats and placement into loving homes that will last their lifetime; (2) by offering people a place to show their rescued animals after they do the angel work of saving an animal off the streets somewhere.

Not only that, but you will still find that different feral cats (unaltered cats and their progeny that were abandoned by irresponsible, heartless people) eventually will find their way to this locale thanks to the vacuum effect that results when feral cats are trapped and killed.