Sentences with phrase «shelter industry»

Much of this was due to No Kill, but some of it was due to the traditional shelter industry reforming itself.

At this time there is no recognized authority that defines terms for the animal shelter industry, and there are several different methods of calculating the live release rate that are in use.

That's why Canadian dairy farmers, bankers and others from sheltered industries should worry.

In the late 1990s, some in the traditional shelter industry began to use the concept of «open admission» versus «limited admission» to criticize No Kill.

The true picture is of a terrible situation in 1970 that was made better through determined spay - neuter efforts by people associated with the traditional shelter industry before No Kill even developed.

The second big trend of 2017 was the coming together of the traditional shelter industry and No Kill.

The dirty little secret of the animal sheltering industry in the United States is finally out.

Today we have a new generation of leaders and workers in the traditional shelter industry who do not remember the bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s and were not invested in the battles of the 1990s and 2000s.

When the No Kill movement first developed a national presence in the mid-1990s, the traditional shelter industry reacted with considerable outrage.

Although No Kill embraces spay / neuter programs, the big campaign to get people to spay and neuter their pets was started by humane advocates and the traditional shelter industry circa 1970, before the No Kill movement existed.

We also work with those who see a need to change an antiquated sheltering industry by providing the environment and methods to learn how to make real change.

We can offer education and training to sheltering industry professionals and volunteers that has proven to increase adoptions, staff morale, and healthier animals, while decreasing the number of animals being euthanized.

Redemption won five book awards and redefined the animal shelter industry nationwide.

The practical lesson that I draw from all this is that it is a mistake for No Kill advocates to see the traditional shelter industry as the enemy, and it is an inaccurate view of history to see No Kill advocates as white knights who had to fight and defeat an industry full of lazy, incompetent people who liked to kill animals.

The leaders of the traditional shelter industry in the 1970s and 1980s had to deal with a crushing pet overpopulation problem, and they were slow to realize that spaying and neutering of pets, which took off in the 1970s, had made a big difference in decreasing shelter intake by the 1990s.

Rescuers and volunteers witness mismanagement, abuse and killing which the No Kill movement, over the last decade in particular, has exposed as rife within the American animal sheltering industry.

In addition to the availability of these new gateway programs, there are several other reasons for the recent rapprochement between No Kill and the traditional shelter industry.

Conclusion) It is past time for the media, ignorant consumers, and legislators to educate themselves about and address the true nature of failure of responsibility and pet retention instead of blindly accepting intentional misrepresentations perpetuated by the Animal Rights Groups and Shelter Industry.

1) Not all «breeders» are created equal, though the Animal Rights extremists and shelter industry would like to paint that picture.

This blog is the fourth in my series exploring the effects of the recent trend of professionalization in the animal sheltering industry.

Building on their strong sense of animal welfare, the Friends has grown in the past 25 years to an organization of great reputation in the animal - sheltering industry.

And The Bark magazine calls him «the voice of America's displaced pets and the conscience of the animal sheltering industry.»

Another 1989 event that is also credited with starting the No Kill movement was the publication of an enormously influential essay called In the Name of Mercy by an animal - rights activist and non-profit consultant named Ed Duvin, in which he argued that the animal sheltering industry was failing to face the ethical implications of killing millions of animals each year.

Hopefully, as time goes on, the shelter industry will adopt more formal and rigorous standards for keeping and reporting statistics.

A movement began, supported by the traditional shelter industry and virtually all of the humane organizations, to get people to spay and neuter their pets and start keeping dogs on leash or otherwise under control.

The fact is that the great majority of the decline in shelter killing that has occurred in the last 50 years — perhaps as much as 90 % of it nationwide — was due to the spay - neuter movement supported by the traditional shelter industry, not due to the No Kill movement.

Nathan has been the director at animal shelters in several cities and now serves as an independent consultant to the shelter industry.

Had people in the shelter industry been consulted on the proposal, it could have been written in a way that allowed responsible and humane decisions to be made without compromising human safety or perpetuating the suffering of sick or injured animals.

This in turn, will push the entire «shelter industry» (from builders to appraisers to real estate agents to lenders) to focus more on homes» energy efficiency, an awareness that will inevitably reduce household energy consumption and make housing more affordable.