Sentences with phrase «shelter killing statewide»

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That number, as of 2009, is 2,495 animals killed yearly in shelters statewide despite a sizable growth of 7.2 percent in human population in that same timeframe.

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Maddie's Big Fix for Alabama sprang from the work of the Alabama Humane Federation, a statewide coalition of 16 traditional shelters, 15 animal control agencies, nine no - kill organizations and the ALVMA.

Most of these statewide efforts are using a hub - and - spokes approach, where shelters that have already achieved No Kill are mentoring and assisting their neighbors.

In Virginia, the state federation of animal shelters has been a big part of No Kill progress, and is one of the leading agencies in the current statewide No Kill effort.

Since jumping into the no - kill movement as a volunteer for Best Friends in 1994, I have been involved in just about all aspects of our work to end shelter killing, including pulling together a statewide coalition in Utah, a citywide coalition in Los Angeles, a mobile spay / neuter program that roamed the rural reaches of Utah, super adoptions, local and national fundraising efforts, legislative campaigns, a national conference and, of course, shelter rescue.

With a decline in killing of 78 %, Delaware is on the verge of a monumental and historic achievement in the annals of the animal protection movement: ending the systematic killing of healthy and treatable shelter animals statewide.

It is more comprehensive than Delaware's Shelter Standards Law which reduced killing statewide by over 60 % (over 90 % for cats), allowing the state to finish with a 91 % live release rate for dogs, 92 % for cats, and 96 % for other animals.

Statewide, 32 shelters have achieved no - kill status.

Even over a decade after its enactment, killing far outpaces adoptions statewide, not because of the Hayden Law, but primarily due to entrenched ideas and an outdated shelter model that has proven that self - regulation is ineffective.

Some of these include Furburbia pet adoption centers in malls (taking pets out of the shelter to the public); pet super adoptions (adopting hundreds of animals at a time over a weekend), the first coalition - based effort to end the killing; the Big Fix statewide mobile clinic, serving every nook and cranny of the state and cranking out more surgeries than any other mobile clinic of its kind (around 100,000 surgeries during its time); creative corporate partnerships, including Squatters Chasing Tail Ale and Hooters for Neuter; the first statewide community cat trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs; and the first dedicated shelter program to save pit bull terriers (the Pit Crew).

NMHPU heralded a deliberate expansion of our no - kill philosophy to tackle killing in shelters with a comprehensive statewide strategic plan.

Abigail Kamleiter, director of the No Kill South Carolina initiative, said the statewide effort got off the ground in the last year and a half and that she's been pleased by the reception she received while visiting nearly every animal shelter, about 80, in the state.