Sentences with phrase «reclaimed by their guardians»

Generally, about 70 per cent of stray dogs taken in to shelters are reclaimed by their guardians, compared to 10 per cent of stray cats.

By looking at the shelter statistics you can see that some shelters in the Atlanta area have a very low adoption rate and kill almost every animal that is not reclaimed by their guardians.

Not exact matches

By law, stray pets must be kept several days for their guardians to reclaim them.

The consequences have been disastrous: while in 1996, 101 Ohio animal control agencies reported handling 2,141 dogs deemed to be pit bulls, in 2004, 68 agencies reported handling 8,834 such dogs, of whom only 1,425 (16 percent) were reclaimed by their original guardians or adopted by new ones, and 7,409 (84 percent) were killed (Lord et al., 2006).