Sentences with phrase «shelter killing»

This represents a 50 % drop in shelter killing in 18 years.

In almost every instance, the actual peak of shelter killing in the jurisdiction was reached many years and sometimes decades earlier.

The most effective and enduring change takes place when local elected officials come to understand how important the issue of ending shelter killing is to their constituents.

According to some estimates, animal shelters killed as many as 20 million cats and dogs annually in the 1970s.

Trap - Neuter - Return programs may not change every community's cat population, but they can dramatically reduce shelter killing of cats.

This area is very rural and suffered from one of the highest shelter kill rates in the state.

Record low shelter killing raises many questions — particularly about cause and effect.

The tables below shed further light on shelter killing, region by region.

The county shelter kills many dogs and is over an hour away, so many don't want to take their dogs there.

If your local animal shelter kills community cats, there are things you can do.

Their work cut shelter killing almost in half by pioneering the coalition model, which is based on the principle that coalition partners can accomplish more by working together than on their own.

At that point, the ratio of shelter killing per 1,000 people will usually be below 2.0, a target that many jurisdictions have already reached.

About 70 % of the nationwide fall in shelter killing took place from 1970 to 2000.

The other thing was that animal - protection advocates who were upset about the number of homeless animals in the environment and about shelter killing started large spay - neuter campaigns.

It's quite another to see it coming together in terms of reduced shelter killing and broad community participation.

Today as never before, the animal protection movement is increasingly rejecting its historic enabling of shelter killing.

Last year, Toledo had a 23 % increase in dog bites and has seen almost no decrease in shelter killing over the past 20 years.

According to a story in The Daytona Beach News - Journal, the county's two municipal shelters killed 83 percent of the 32,974 cats taken in between 2008 and 2010.

First, in starting a program to decrease shelter killing in any given city we need to know where that city is in terms of pet sterilization.

Puppy mills are as anachronistic as shelter killing.

Shelter workers don't want owners or pets to suffer from a mismatch and with fewer shelters killing unwanted animals, it's easier on the conscience to return a pet that doesn't work out.

According to Humane Society of the United States figures, during the peak of kitten season, which is April through September, shelters kill unwanted or abandoned cats at the rate of one per minute.

In order to do this, we need not just the shelter doing its job, we need civic help as well — and we hope that animal control and the city council will work with us to get rid of these policies that are leading to increased shelter killing.

Because Los Angeles city shelters kill healthy community cats.

U.S. shelters kill not only because killing is easier, but because, historically, they have enjoyed the political cover of pet overpopulation which allowed them to continue doing so, political cover that comes courtesy of the animal protection movement itself.

Since then, California shelter killing of dogs and cats has continued to fall, to 410,739 as of 2014.

Citizens want to say that shelters kill just because they don't want to care for the cats, when the shelter simply can't find homes or house hundreds of cats.

Within a year San Francisco became the first U.S. city whose shelters killed fewer than five animals per 1,000 human residents.

Essentially what point 12 tells us is that in 2013/14 alone, the LDH North Melbourne and Cranbourne shelters killed over 2,000 dogs and nearly 8,000 cats, without keeping any records as to the reasons, not even the minimum recording required by the Code of Practice.

Eliminating unnecessary shelter killing is pretty easy math: lower the number of animals that come into the shelter, increase the ones that get out safely, and then get the number coming in to be equal to those going out.

Our country shelters kill 6 - 8 MILLION dogs and cats each year, not because they are sick, or aggressive, simply because there are not enough homes.

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MYTH # 3: Good shelters are «no - kill,» and bad shelters kill animals.

Shelter killing did not keep homeless dog and cat populations from growing, but it probably did make them grow more slowly than they otherwise would have.

To save rather than end the lives of half of all animals who currently enter shelters only to die, we do not have to reform the 310,000,000 Americans apologists for shelter killing consider «irresponsible» and to blame for that killing.

The No kill Humane Society mission is to destroy the present animal shelter killing machine.

Accusing American breeders of causing overpopulation and high shelter kill rates is not safe, moral, just or fair.

During that period, the coalition - based organization, consisting of 26 rescue groups and 93 veterinarians, worked with the 55 shelters in Utah and helped drop shelter killing statewide by 30 percent.

U.S. animal shelters killed about 187,230 fewer dogs in the most recently completed fiscal year than the year before ---- and the entire reduction appears to have been in reduced killing of pit bulls, as the toll among acknowledged pit bulls fell from 910,000 to just 724,000, the lowest number in more than 15 years.