Sentences with phrase «rescuers said»

Rescuers said owners should make sure pets are licensed, wear identification tags and get microchipped.

The man's fellow rescuers said he was struck just as the creature was about to swim away from them.

An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach a Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said on Monday.

But not everyone agrees, and rescuers say those definitions can be a death sentence to older animals in need of homes.

His rescuer says he is a real sweetie.

His records say he is 10 years old but his rescuer says he is quite an agile, active young man... and smart too.

The rescuer said the owner kicked the canine and beat him with sticks.

Residents disgusted by his deformities threw stones and scalding water at him and he was attacked by a pair of pit bulls, the rescuer said.

But the success of the rescue movement in reducing shelter populations, some rescuers say, has been driving rescuers to the auction market.

Now, at least some are taking them to auctions to sell to rescuers, Grosenbacher and some rescuers say.

Success stories like this are the reason why animal rescuers say their jobs would be much more difficult without social media.

The rescuers say after years of volunteering their time and resources to find homes and provide veterinary and other care for animals at the shelter, they were summarily banned from the premises.

When the owner was jailed on unrelated charges, the canine wandered the streets, where residents disgusted by his deformities threw stones and scalding water at him, and he was attacked by a pair of pit bulls, the rescuer said.

Not exact matches

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.

To read it from a survivor's standpoint, to feel the fear they must have felt hidden away, to hear the cries of their rescuer as the Nazi's beat him, trying to get him to say he had Jews he was hiding, to think of the rescuers children never saying a word, and being always vigilant... it is both heartwarming, and utterly heartbreaking at once.

ROME (AP)-- A tour bus filled with Italian pilgrims plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night and smashed into several cars that had slowed in heavy traffic, killing at least 36 people, said police and rescuers.

And the rescuers studied by the Oliners said they were wrong, and acted courageously on that conviction.

«We are great at being rescuers,» Bethan says.

Stahl said the foundation has helped arrange 18 reunions between survivors and rescuers.

Rescuers pulled six people out of the rubble, including two who died, in Bijie, Guizhou province, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing city authorities.

A woman has been found alive after six days in a collapsed building and rescuers are working to free her, a Kenyan government official said Thursday.

Rescuers are creating room to release the woman who is speaking to medics waiting to treat her, said Pius Masai, the head of the National Disaster Management Unit.

«We started this study thinking we would identify the individual characteristics that motivated rescuers, because that's what most previous research had pointed to,» said Hollie Nyseth Brehm, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

Most cardiac arrest victims, however, don't get that treatment before trained rescuers arrive,» said Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, professor at the UA Colleges of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix and co-director of the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center — Phoenix, part of the UA Department of Emergency Medicine.

So says Mark Uttley, an emergency rescue - training consultant for the Windsor, Ont., Canada, Fire Dept., who recently told attendees at the Ward's Auto Interiors Show in Detroit there is a need for better cooperation between rescuers and auto makers.

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize.

«The absence of a common language, common understanding and a common system among the rescuers and between the rescuers and those receiving aid made it difficult for us to deliver aid in 2011,» said Masaki Okonogi, head of the VMAT in Gunma Prefecture.

To say both Link, who will be a year old this month, and his rescuers are determined is an understatement.

So, whether you are a shelter director, city official, organizational board member, rescuer, advocate or volunteer, as they say: «Watch this space.»

I believe Francis says it best, and I'll stick with his words: «The truth of the matter is that animals are dying in shelters because of outdated and discredited draconian adoption policies that are designed to protect the emotional well - being of the rescuer rather than to ensure a safe future life for a dog or cat.»

When the rescuer opened the pen door, she got up from a bed and purposely walked over to the rescuer as if to say «Where have you been... I've been waiting» and put her head in the leash.

«I think the sheer brutality of it drove us to find who did this and the fear they wouldn't stop,» said Jane Ziemba, an animal rescuer.

«It's quite a market at this point, and it's really creating problems as far as unscrupulous transporters and unscrupulous rescuers,» she said.

Petfinder does not require that its members restrict their listings to its site, and Petfinder Vice President Kim Saunders says that rescuers have a responsibility to use whatever resources they think will help animals find homes.

Richardson said he was inspired to do something locally after reading Kim Kavin's book «The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores and Rescuers.»

«It's tremendously helpful to get these services done for rescuers such as myself, thanks to the Alliance and its NYC Feral Cat Initiative,» said Beth, a community cat caretaker, who brought two cats to the clinic on March 27.

The irony is he was only supposed to be our foster dog — he was days away from being put down — and we couldn't say no when his rescuer asked us to foster him.

As a rescuer, I have to say I particularly agree with the second paragraph.

Many rescuers and rescue groups I know will «poo - poo» this, saying that they have every right to ask for the money they do, but the fact remains that they are having trouble rehoming dogs because of the inflated costs and intrusive questions / home inspections they do.

The rescuer that picked him says that he is calm, gets along with other dogs, he's very friendly with lots of tail wags, and likes to be groomed.

Rescuers can certainly explain the context of any incidents, but «you still need to disclose,» she says.

Phillips said that he was surprised and pleased with the price the rescuer paid, and that at least one colleague had taken note — not of the laws being enacted to try to shut down commercial breeders, but instead of where their new cash flow was emerging.

«They are the pioneers,» said Peters, of the city's nonprofit rescuers that work on shoestring budgets and little sleep to save the animals that were abandoned, abused or orphaned.

New York real estate agent and dog rescuer Barbara Fox says the city - canine title could help get a pet accepted at co-ops and condominiums, adding that buildings shouldn't demand that animals pass tests.

He says «that PETA has killed 29,426 animals in the last decade, has been caught stealing animals to put them to death, supports the killing of all pit bulls in all shelters, and has told shelters not to work with rescuers but to kill the animals instead.»

«Chatopia is a leader among animal rescues in Quebec,» says Quebec Animal Rescuer of the Year event chair Susanna Oreskovic.

Rescuers who have been buying auction dogs for many years say it is unfair to characterize all commercial breeders as «puppy mills.»

She said she bids at the auctions for other rescuers who reimburse her.

Years ago, when more commercial breeders existed, rescuers attended auctions to buy surplus dogs that seemed to be everywhere, longtime auction participants say.

Hank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland, says rescuers usually account for 15 to 25 percent of his business.