The Athens County Dog
Shelter keeps a waiting list of people who are looking for particular dog breeds.
Instead of allowing every cat in the door,
the shelter kept a waiting list for owners wishing to surrender a cat.
Not exact matches
To all the commenters
waiting for their family pets to die, who are
keeping them outside after being pampered, who abandoned them at
shelters — my heart bleeds for these living, thinking, FEELING beings who gave you love and trusted you to love them back.
To
keep his country's dream of independence alive by means of a government in exile, the young ruler would not only have to brave battalions of enemy soldiers and the whiteout conditions
waiting on the slopes of the Himalayas» highest peaks, he'd have to overcome a different type of blindness: the naïveté intrinsic to his
sheltered palace life and his position as leader of a people who considered violence deeply taboo.
If that odd fact perked your interest, just
wait: Marrin spikes his prose with
keep - you - reading bits of esoterica (Depression - era mothers abandoning babies at animal
shelters, German dogs taught to bark, «Mein Führer»).
I hope to utilize the knowledge I have gained through my
shelter med classes at UF to successfully manage
shelter populations, and do my best to
keep animals happy and healthy while they
wait to find their forever homes.
Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff Written so veterinarians and lay staff of animal
shelters would get the information they need to
keep animals healthy and happy while they
wait for adoption.
After initially controlling its intakes, the SPCA Serving Erie County saw significant benefits: Eight percent of owners on the
waiting list decided to
keep their cats, and 12 percent were able to rehome their cats with advice from the
shelter.
While
waiting, these animals rely on rescue groups,
shelters, and foster to help
keep them alive, safe and fed.
Additionally,
keeping ID on your pet such as tags or a microchip can extend the stray hold period, the period which a
shelter has to
wait before making the pet available for adoption, giving you a longer time to find your pet!
Those of us at the South Jersey Regional Animal
Shelter hope that you are enjoying your family and friends over this holiday season and please
keep in mind that we have many pets here that are
waiting still for a safe, warm and loving home like yours.
Many people were able to overcome obstacles to
keeping their pets during the
waiting period, often with resources made available to them through the
shelter.
Many
shelters network with rescues and other
shelters and often
keep «
waiting lists» of people
waiting for specific breeds (or colors), so contacting them early in the process might help place the pet (s) with less stress for everyone concerned.