Sentences with phrase «shelter kills community»

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This no - kill shelter has had a tremendously positive impact on the community by rescuing and caring for animals in need.

Since my shelter visit, I have seen a few familiar sets of puppy eyes, but not nearly as many as we would need to be a no - kill community.

Bill Bruce, director of Animal Services and Bylaws in Calgary, has approached ending the killing of shelter animals with a top - down, integrated community - policy approach.

For the first time in history there are over 70 open admission No Kill shelters spanning more than 200 cities, towns and communities.

While the goal, of course, are No Kill communities, we should welcome No Kill shelters.

Not only does this ignore the data, but the success of communities that have become No Kill overnight when open admission shelters embraced the philosophy and rigorously implemented the programs.

I'm getting the feeling that some of the failures associated with shelters which have rebranded themselves no - kill (those ones that don't have open admissions or who end up warehousing animals in poor conditions for much too long) without understanding that they can't have a no - kill shelter without the development of a no - kill community have given the term no - kill a bad name.

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This no kill philosophy for me came to a head in 1995 when I pitched it to a local group who thought I was half mad, then at a big shelter who hired me to make them no kill but had all kinds of problems with the extra $ 75,000 per year that it cost, even though the community seemed more than happy to pay it.

All of the groups bringing animals to the event, including the ASPCA, Animal Haven Shelter, Bide - a-Wee, and NYC's Animal Care & Control, are members of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals — a coalition of more than 100 animal shelters and rescue groups that are working with the City of New York to transform New York City into a no - kill community.

He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has created successful no - kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

If we are ever to become a no kill COMMUNITY we have to end the idea that the no kill shelters are «saving theirs» and start looking for ways that everyone can work together to end the killing.

From the very beginning, we were determined to prove that a NO - KILL Shelter could work in the Mississippi Delta because we felt so strongly that the homeless and hurting animals of our community deserved a chance at life.

You don't become a no kill community by having a bunch of no kill shelters doing their own thing.

If we are to really get to being a no kill nation — where no healthy or treatable animal is killed for being homeless — we need to quit talking about being «no kill shelters» — and have all organizations in a community in order to become «no kill communities».

Truly, I believe no kill has to come from a community effort, where hard to adopt animals are shared through identified strengths of shelters in the area.

It is heartening to hear, though, that more communities are getting the idea that no - kill can't be achieved by a shelter alone and that more and more shelters are making the effort to forge links with their communities to end animal homelessness together.

It is time we quit talking about «no kill shelters» and make the conversation about «no kill communities».

As an entire community, we're FAR from no kill — in spite of having no kill shelters.

As the largest No Kill animal shelter in Kansas City, we care for more than 10,000 animals a year and work collaboratively with Animal Control and other animal welfare organizations to increase the number of homeless pets adopted, and focus on lifesaving programs promoting pet retention, identification, lost pet reunions, and pet ownership education throughout the community.

RAPS is a community - based, volunteer - driven, no - kill animal shelter and sanctuary.

The apparent success of the Adoption Pact made San Francisco the most often emulated model for community efforts to reduce shelter killing nationwide.

Many shelters and communities are honestly raising no - kill rates by treating medical conditions and working with behavior issues.

Generally, the no - kill threshold for a community is considered to be 90 percent, Best Friends says, which means nine out of 10 dogs leave the shelter alive.

First Coast No More Homeless Pets operates one of the largest spay and neuter clinics in the country with the mission to end the killing of dogs and cats in shelters in our community, Northeast Florida and the nation.

We are partnering with PetSmart Charities ®, and together we are committing a combined $ 1 million over the next three years to change the lives of community cats in Baltimore and dramatically reduce shelter killing.

Just a few years ago (and sadly still true in far too many communities), shelters were deluged with cats and kittens, and the number of cats and kittens killed was depressingly high — but today, thanks to commonsense programs, and the support of organizations like the Million Cat Challenge, we're seeing headlines like this one out of Michigan, «CATastrophe: Where have all the West Michigan kittens gone?»

So I ask you, as a citizen of this community, is it your will that we kill the vast majority of pets that are unfortunate enough to find their way to a municipal shelter; or, is it your will that everything that is feasible be done to ensure life of the helpless and innocent?

Historically, a no - kill community has been defined as one where no healthy, or treatable and adoptable dog or cat was killed in a municipal shelter.

In fact, we all can play a role in our local communities by adopting, fostering, volunteering, and advocating for the no - kill shelter movement.

In 2012, after evaluating the needs of both the animal welfare and local community, Felines Inc. expanded both the facility and program to become Felines & Canines, a cage-less, no - kill cat and dog shelter.

This is why sometimes cities mistakenly think that having a no kill shelter is more expensive — it can be — but not if both animal control and the animal shelter are thinking, planning and acting with a no kill mindset to truly build a no kill community.

We work with local shelters and rescues taking in dogs that might not get adopted due to age, medical, or behavioral issues helping Charleston to achieve the status of a NO - Kill Community.

This year's event in New York City is a fundraiser for the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals — a coalition of 85 - plus animal shelters and rescue groups working with the City of New York to transform NYC into a no - kill community.

Iâ $ ™ ve volunteered with local shelters, have fostered hundreds of kittens, served on the Board of Directors of a humane society, was Director of Operations for one of the largest and most successful shelters in the nation, was Executive Director of an open admission animal control shelter which created the nationâ $ ™ s first (and at the time only) No Kill community, and have consulted with dozens more, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

I currently run the national No Kill Advocacy Center, the only national organization dedicated to ending the systematic killing of animals in shelters which is run by staff who have actually worked in and created No Kill communities.

I am also working with the King County Council trying to bring a No Kill orientation to animal sheltering in that community.

And it need to get people to the shelters to adopt those animals, which they will, if a community goes «no kill.»

Sure you can create pocket communities of no kill shelters, but unless those efforts show up as an over all reduction in kill rate on a national scale, it just means the problem is being handed to someone else.

Take a real look at the development of no - kill communities (not no - kill shelters), such as the ones Maddies Fund has been developing.

Animal control's outdated approach to community cats has been to catch cats and bring them to a shelter where they will be killed because they are not socialized to people and therefore unadoptable.

Community cats should not be taken to shelters because, nationwide, 70 percent of cats in shelters are killed.

«This type of facility is critical for helping underserved communities keep their pets, reducing shelter intake and unnecessary euthanasia, and helping us work toward a no - kill nation,» said Shelly Thompson, Director of Grants at Maddie's Fund.

More than 70 percent of all cats — and nearly all community cats — are killed in shelters nationwide.

Through its No More Homeless Pets Network, Best Friends maintains lifesaving partnerships with more than 1,000 animal rescue organizations, spay / neuter groups and animal shelters throughout the country — all of them working to help homeless pets and create local no - kill communities.»

«No - kill» does not mean that: shelters that haven't reached no - kill, and their employees, are willing killers, or that dangerous or sick animals will be released into the community, or that shelters will start warehousing animals indefinitely.

Most of them are not adoptable and would not have survived, as virtually all community cats are killed in shelters even today.

Municipal shelters do not have the option to be «no - kill» and while ACS is working toward achieving «no - kill» status, it will need the entire community's support in order to accomplish this goal.

Best Friends Network In addition to regional programs in L.A., Utah, Atlanta and New York, Best Friends maintains lifesaving partnerships with hundreds and hundreds of animal rescue organizations and animal shelters throughout the country — all of them working to help homeless pets and create no - kill communities where they live.

We are the Animal Care & Control authority for the city of Burien, Washington, and operate a no - kill community animal shelter that houses and cares for Burien's strays, and adopts out unclaimed animals to new loving families.