Sentences with phrase «shelter living environment»

We are always in need of volunteers to provide hands - on care to the animals, ensuring that the shelter living environment remains safe, clean and as comfortable as possible.

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Most moderately retarded people (I.Q. 40 to 54) can live in a home environment and work successfully in a sheltered workshop (many corporations subcontract routine, repetitious jobs to such workshops).

He designed a questionnaire for the fishermen about their lives and found, unsurprisingly, that local people, many of whom struggled for basics such as food and shelter, did not put the state of the environment high on their list of worries.

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

Once leaving her relatively sheltered life in the States, Kim Barker embraces her wartime environment in the «Ka - bubble» of Afghanistan.

Seamus desperately needs to recover in a home environment, because the inevitable stress of life in a crowded, public shelter will exacerbate his mange and compromise his immune system.

Just like dogs are historically pack animals and prefer to live in cave type shelter with other dogs - or you - your ferret's long - lost relatives lived in dens and he or she will want to live in that environment also.

The Association for a Pet Adoption Center (APAC) is a 501 (c) 3 not - for profit group of concerned volunteers who are working toward a time when homeless, unwanted animals are no longer being destroyed in our shelter, and when every dog and cat can be guaranteed a good life in a caring environment.

So ask yourself this: why don't 75 - 80 % more of our pet owning public use the shelter to get their new best friend: new best friend is 60 % likely to be ill / diseased; new best friend is likely to have an evaluation done by a non behavioral professional; new best friend may be covered in poo and his environment is not pleasant to the nose; new best friend lives in a place where my family and I can not talk or think and the counselor yelled at us the whole time trying to drown out the incessant barking; shelter has collected very little data on new best friend and does not have adequate staff to assist me with my adoption.

The current law requires that animals can not be euthanized for 5 days and under the new law, even then, shelters must look for reasonable alternatives and specifically, «shall ensure... [t] here are no empty cages, kennels, or other living environments in the shelter that are suitable for the animal; [t] he animal can not share a cage or kennel with appropriately sized primary living space with another animal; [a] foster home is not available»; a rescue on the registry can not accept the animal.

If you choose to add a shelter dog to your family, you can be proud because you're taking a dog out of the shelter environment and potentially saving his life.

A shelter's purpose is to be a place of transit where certain animals will have to wait for a new owner, a new life, a new environment.

She has lived in a shelter environment for more than a year.

Three years of her life (she is only about four years old) spent in a shelter environment.

Life in the shelter environment is difficult for this very large, older dog.

We try to rescue these deserving seniors when we can and find a place for them to live out their remaining years in comfort instead of letting them be euthanized in a cold shelter environment.

Life in the shelter environment has been very hard for this young dog.

What traditionally may be called hospice care, Lizzy's Fund considers this care as a success when an animal is loved, cared for, and its end of life process is accompanied by a loving environment rather than languishing in a shelter.

The goals of this expanded foster program include decreasing the time spent in a shelter for adult dogs and cats, improving welfare, reducing the overall number of pets housed at PACC and providing a lifesaving pathway for pets who experience emotional decline due to the stress of living in the shelter environment.

Animals entering shelters after being rescued from life in a puppy mill or hoarding environment may be afflicted with numerous physical and psychological health problems at varying levels of severity.

Foster Volunteers have dramatically increased our life - saving ability, whether they are giving older cats a break from the shelter environment, providing isolation for cats or dogs possibly exposed to contagious disease, carrying out behavior modification programs for dogs to make them adoptable, or tending to a myriad of other special needs.

The cageless environment was designed to encourage cats in the shelter environment to enjoy living in social groups to reduce stress and promote adoption.

Dr. Elizabeth Berliner explores newer diagnostic and management protocols for shelters, with an eye to practicality and life - saving in a shelter environment.

For instance, a dog left in the backyard with no shelter or a cat living in an unsanitary environment.

Depending on the environment of the shelter / kennel, it can take much longer... and some dogs who could recover normalcy in a calm home just do not adapt to shelter life.

Adding alternative live outcomes for cats admitted to the shelter (generally in the form of sterilization and release to a non-housed environment, e.g. trap - neuter - return).

Each and every APB foster dog lives with a foster family, not in a shelter environment.

Not only do they keep a dog out of a shelter, they also provide a comfortable environment where a dog can adjust to family living.

- Beneficial for animals that are not adjusting to shelter life and remain stressed in the shelter environment.

You can tell he is use to a home environment, shelter life is just not his cup of tea», Esther wrote to WagBrag.

The additional level of exposure that Nine Lives offers our feline friends has helped get some of our most social cats adopted into loving homes more quickly than they would if they were in our shelter environment.

It's not as widely known that the smells in a cat's environment are a critical part of what makes a cat feel safe and free of stress, whether the cat is living in a home or is in an animal shelter.

While rescues and no kill shelters are critical to addressing the problem once an animal enters the shelter environment pet retention programs, like those in Riverside, Carson, San Bernardino and Santa Barbara, are one of the most effective ways to save lives by reducing the number of pets entering the shelter system to begin with.

In signing this foster agreement with Last Chance at Life, I declare that I am aware that: animals are different from human beings in their responses to human actions; the actions of animals are often unpredictable; children and animals must be closely supervised when interacting; an animal's behavior may change after it leaves the shelter and accustoms itself to its new environment.

Some just do not adapt to shelter life or have been here for a long time and need to move to a home environment.

While rescues and no - kill shelters are critical to addressing the problem once an animal enters the shelter environment pet retention programs, like those in Riverside, Carson, San Bernardino, and Santa Barbara are one of the most effective ways to save lives by reducing the number of pets entering the shelter system, to begin with.

A foster home is a temporary living arrangement for shelter animals in need of extra care otherwise difficult to provide in a shelter environment.

AAC also provides shelter for strays and feral that may otherwise not have a safe living environment.

Since even in the best of circumstances dogs in shelters live primarily in their kennels, providing enrichment activities where dogs live is easy, inexpensive and has an enormous impact on improving their quality of life in the shelter environment.

P.A.W.S. Mission: To improve the lives of unwanted and abandoned animals by providing a safe and humane shelter environment; promoting successful adoptions and pet owner education; and reducing the animal population of Dearborn County by sponsoring spay / neuter programs.

Often a foster home rather than a shelter environment helps give many of these animals a second chance at the life they deserve!

To improve the lives of unwanted and abandoned animals by providing a safe and humane shelter environment; promoting successful adoptions and pet owner education; and reducing the animal population of Dearborn County by sponsoring spay / neuter programs.

Life as an indoor cat has many benefits — ready food sources, shelter and a safe environment.

Founded in 1965, Pet Pride is a non-profit cat shelter that allows cats to live in a comforting, cage free environment created for homeless cats, offering them a lifetime of care.

A senior dog who lives in a home environment rather than a shelter while he is waiting for permanent placement will inevitably make a better transition to his new home and family, and therefore decrease the chances that he will be displaced again.

The Mission of the Pit Bull Task Force is: to ensure humane treatment of all pit bull - type dogs, create and implement solutions for safer environments, increase public understanding about pit bull - type dogs, and reduce intake and increase live outcomes of pit bull - type dogs from the shelter.

Resting on 110 acres of rolling hills, fields and streams in upstate New York, at the Little Shelter Animal Sanctuary, animals live in rooms styled more like apartments or homes to provide comfort and peace in a relaxing environment.

Since all of our dogs live in foster homes with their temporary families and not in a shelter environment, we get a better idea of what they are like in a home which results in a more successful adoption process...

If adoption isn't an option, fostering is always important to get animals acclimated to a home life and out of the shelter environment.

T. foetus is more common in young cats living in high - density environments such as shelters where the parasite is easily transmitted.