Sentences with phrase «pets out of animal shelters»

Based in the Washington, D.C. area, PAW is a non-profit group of volunteers who take homeless pets out of animal shelters and find them new homes.

They also help homeless animals by keeping beloved family pets out of animal shelters, freeing up space and resources for animals who truly have nowhere else to go.

A new pet adoption website was recently launched in late 2016 which seeks to keep pets out of animal shelters...

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«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50 cats.

Displaced pets are also being helped out of the rain - swelled city, and Hi Tor Animal Shelter (www.hitor.org), along with other shelters in the mid-Hudson, has people on the ground in Houston and plan to return with several dogs and cats that will need homes.

If you live in a city other than Tulsa, you should contact the city attorney, animal shelter or police department (or check to see if the local library has a copy of the city ordinances) and find out exactly how many pets you are allowed.

In celebration of National Animal Shelter and Rescue Appreciation Week from Nov. 3 - 9, The Humane Society of the United States encourages pet lovers to reach out and support their local shelters and rescue groups.

How about benefits like a stray pet drive - home service that keeps animals out the shelter... how about someone trained in community relations and conflict resolution to help you resolve any pet - related problems with your neighbors... how about a free spay / neuter service for members of the public who can't afford retail vet services... and how about a fund to pay local vets when a shelter animal needs medical care?

Out of the success of animal shelter evolution in Jacksonville, Fla., grew Target Zero, a group that helps communities end euthanasia in their shelters and save 95 percent or more of their homeless pets.

Peter raises eyebrows and hackles when he proclaims that «we can't adopt our way out of the problem,» referring to the needless killing of shelter animals.

Arizona is currently in the grips of a sweltering heat wave — in the midst of the scorching temperatures, eight lucky shelter dogs, from the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control facility, were able to enjoy a refreshingly cool outing at an area pet resort's pool.

While more and more animal organizations are launching surrender prevention programs to help keep pets in their homes and out of shelters, PAWS NY's house call program is unusual in the level of ongoing direct care it provides for people's pets.

Intervention keeps animals out of shelters by addressing the needs of low - income pet owners, providing food, vet care, vaccinations and / or spay & neuter, and engraved ID tags with collars and leashes to help keep pets safe.

With money for spaying and neutering pets nearly exhausted, Lake County leaders want state legislators to support ideas that would earn the county nearly $ 60,000 yearly to keep the animal population in check.Since the late 1970s, the county has paid to sterilize pets at Lake's animal control shelter in Astatula with the help of a hefty donation that started a trust fund.However, that sterilization trust fund is expected to run out of money any day now.

Animal Friends of the Valleys in Lake Elsinore, which also screens out that type of prospective adopter, even stops pet adoptions at the shelter for the week leading up to Christmas, partly to avoid people adopting dogs and cats to give as Christmas presents, director Anne Washington said.

During the interviewing process of prospective adopters, both Riverside City - County and San Diego County animal shelters try to screen out those they suspect may be looking for pets as stocking - stuffers.

«Further more,» as Peter points out, «no where in the AVMA report does it mention animal control facilities, shelters, or rescues for their use of gas chambers.

Such networks are generally led by no - kill rescue groups who take cats and dogs out of animal control facilities or traditional animal shelters, place them in foster homes, and then find the pets permanent homes through their own adoption events, publicity, word of mouth, or advertising.

Get Your Pet is a simple, smart and humane way to keep pets out of shelters, one that also increases shelters» ability to care for the homeless and abused animals that can benefit most from the amazing work they do.

Local / Regional shelters and PAWS of Jackson Hole will partake in this dog adoption BBQ to help get the word out about adoptable animals in the area and pet ownership!

By placing their pets into foster care while they are going through hospital treatments, PAWS is able to help these folks keep their animals safe, happy, and out of shelters.

In honor of all the homeless pets out there, please spayneuter your pets and ALWAYS go to a shelter to get animals instead of a breeder and NEVER a pet shop.

Michelson Found Animals is back with the fifth annual Saving Pets Challenge (May 1 - 30, 2018), a fundraising campaign for organizations focused on keeping pets out of shelters.

We do so through comprehensive rescue and prevention efforts: pulling at - risk animals out of the city's shelter and placing them in loving adoptive and foster homes, and providing low - or no - cost veterinary services and spay / neuter surgery to disadvantaged pet owners, enabling pets to remain as cherished family members rather than face abandonment and preventing the birth of unwanted litters.

Make signs and hand - outs with maps to the closest animal shelter, and peacefully remind pet store patrons of the animals that were left to suffer for those puppies in the window.

When you adopt an animal that was once an indoor pet, or give a kitten born outside a chance at a comfortable and spoiled life, you keep them out of the shelter system and help free up our resources to help more cats in Philadelphia.

In donating to The Pet Fund, you will be both helping to keep pets out of shelters and affecting the welfare of animals far into the future.

The idea behind this law is that thousands of animals in shelters are looking for a home, while pets stores sell animals that may have been bred in poorly regulated, out - of - state «puppy mills.»

«Kay's great about bringing the pets and getting the word out to the public what they're in need of and what events they have coming up to support the shelter,» Lewis said of Hyman, Charleston Animal Society's Director of Community Engagement.

The fifth annual Saving Pets Challenge is an online fundraising campaign for organizations focused on keeping pets out of shelters, sponsored by Found Animals Foundation.

Recognizing the healing power of companion animals, the mission of Heart2Heart Pet Lifeline is to keep pets out of shelters and rescues and help owners keep them in loving homes.

In celebration of National Animal Shelter and Rescue Appreciation Week from Nov. 4 - 10, The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, encourages pet lovers to reach out and support their local shelters and reAnimal Shelter and Rescue Appreciation Week from Nov. 4 - 10, The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, encourages pet lovers to reach out and support their local shelters and reanimal protection organization, encourages pet lovers to reach out and support their local shelters and rescues.

In animal shelters, of greatest concern is keeping pets from contracting diseases while in the shelter, or introducing them to the existing shelter population on intake, or bringing infectious disease out into the community.

Microchip implants are an incredibly simple, inexpensive and effective way to find lost pets, keeping them out of animal shelters and back where they belong.

The staff and board members of The Pet Fund work constantly to develop resources for pets and their families to fund critically needed veterinary care, keeping animals out of shelters and helping pet owners to become skilled at preventative care practices.

You might remember a feature we ran in late September on Josh Feeney, an amazing shelter photographer who attended a One Picture Saves a Life workshop and has been pumping out fantastic photographs of adoptable pets for Safe Humane Chicago (SHC) and Chicago Animal Care and Control (CCAC) ever since.

I fully believe that Americans need a lot more education on pets, especially with in regards to accepting responsibility for a lifetime (I've done many stories on college towns where the rate of strays goes up tremendously in May and December, when kids are leaving to go back home, they simply turn their pets out or leave them at the shelters) and how to positively train and socialize their animals.

Many people who have lost their jobs and homes in this tough economy refuse to give up pets because they consider them family members, said Barker, who wants to keep pets with their owners and out of animal shelters where they can be euthanized.

What we need are more «out of the shelter» solutions, including relocation, animal fostering and pet retention programs that help owners keep their pets so those animals don't enter shelters in the first place.

While the animal is out of the shelter, AAWL hangs a sign on his or her kennel letting other potential adopters know where the pet is and when they can check back on his or her status.

Like so many shelters with animal control contracts, the TC SPCA would rely on the fiction that the only solution to pet overpopulation is the «blue solution,» and continue to blame «irresponsible owners» for the fact that so many animals would go out the door in barrels rather than in the loving arms of families.

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Paid $ 5,000 a month by an industry association of CBEs, his goal in making the claim was to get the court to overturn a law that makes it illegal for pet stores in Grove City, OH, to sell puppy mill dogs; the law requires pet stores to work with rescues and shelters to adopt out rescued animals instead.

''... On the sidewalk in front of the arena, Dianne Thompson of the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter helped a team of veterinarians and staff administer free vaccinations and hand out leashes, pet food and toys.

Whether we're working to move animals out of the City shelter and into placement via our Wheels of Hope program, training New Yorkers to perform Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) and care for community cats through our NYC Feral Cat Initiative, helping our community's most vulnerable pet owners keep their pets despite difficult circumstances via our Helping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large - scale Adoptapalooza events, every day is different.

In 1997, a small group of volunteers, motivated by the unnecessary deaths of thousands of adoptable pets in our local shelters, recognized that Washoe County needed a new type of animal rescue facility — a facility dedicated to giving the dogs and cats at our municipal animal control shelter a second chance at life before their time ran out.

Central MA Kibble Kitchen: www.facebook.com/CentralMAKibbleKitchen. The Central MA Kibble Kitchen is a volunteer animal surrender prevention program in Central Massachusetts, dedicated to keeping pets at home and out of shelters.

Lori Weise of Downtown Dog Rescue pretty much wrote the book on helping people and their pets stay together, and keeping animals out of shelters.

In order to save all animals who were admitted to shelters in 1970, one out of every three people who currently owned a pet at that time would have had to adopt another one from a shelter.