Strategies to Boost Return to Owner Rates — A strong return - to - owner program can bring immediate joy to lost animals and their worried families, and can work in tandem with your adoption efforts to help
your shelter save more lives.
This is your opportunity to help your local
shelter save more lives.
While the idea should continue to be presented as an opportunity to provide a bigger safety net for animals, it should not prevent a positive change to help
shelters save more lives while we wait for the idea to gain acceptance.
In recent years, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has hosted a nationwide contest to help animal
shelters save more lives than ever before.
NoVa Pets Alive, a Northern Virginia nonprofit aimed at helping
shelters save more lives, puts on regular hikes called ResQ Walks.
Not exact matches
From those working to
save more animals»
lives at the
shelter to those helping prevent pets from being there in the first place, we're covering the people and organizations that are making a difference.
But trying to
save the next innocent child's
life and the next family from heartbreak is
more important than
sheltering this loss mother, as sad as she is, from the realities of her actions.
As CountyExecutive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new
shelter, increase adoptions,
save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.
As County Executive, my administration will continue our work with Hi Tor President Lizanne Fiorentino and her Board of Directors to build a new
shelter, increase adoptions,
save more lives and prevent animal suffering — all in the most fiscally responsible way possible.
Fostering a pet from a local
shelter can bring you
more than just a taste of being a pet owner, and at the same time, you can also help
save a
life!
This amazing program — which you can read about on page 14 — is one of only two in the country, and serves as a national model for what other
shelters across the country can do to
save more lives.
Learn how you can help your local
shelter save more cats»
lives at www.alleycat.org/HelpShelters.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the Alliance is a non-profit private charity that partners with
more than 150 local animal rescue groups and
shelters to offer important programs and services that help
save the
lives of New York City's homeless animals.
but I will never forget that it's volunteers providing enrichment for dogs or cats in a
shelter, or working at events to get the animals adopted, or who foster dogs, cats, green iguanas even — all these folks make it possible to
save more lives.
Positive articles like this truly help
save more lives at our
shelters!
The 100K Challenge is back for a third year, inviting
shelters across the country to
save more lives than ever before.
The longer an animal stays in your
shelter, the
more likely it is to get sick in your care, and the larger your
shelter population becomes; therefore, understanding the Length of Stay (LOS) at your
shelter is a key component to your
shelter's
life saving mission.
Rather than spending thousands of dollars at the local pet store, rescuing an animal from a
shelter is much
more rewarding since you are
saving a
life and also much less expensive.
The ASPCA is granting $ 492,250 to support a host of large - scale adoption events held nationwide in an effort to
save more lives of
shelter animals.
As the only NO - KILL
shelter in Berrien County, last year alone the Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan
saved the
lives of
more than 400 cats and dogs.
The Alliance is a private charity, not affiliated with government, that partners with
more than 150 rescue groups and
shelters, including AC&C, to offer important programs and services that
save the
lives of New York City's homeless animals.
In 2010, competing
shelters increased
lives saved by 7,362 in just three months and last year's contestants increased
lives saved by an astonishing 8,977
more cats and dogs.
«We are really excited to be part of
saving the
lives of County animals and can't wait to accept
more of the
shelter's cats and get them seen.»
By having a better understanding of dog behavior, we can make our communities safer, free up resources in our animal
shelters, and
save more dogs»
lives.
For pioneering
shelters with already high
life -
saving rates, the goal is becoming reachable, and there has never been a
more exciting or promising time in the history of animal
sheltering in America.
About the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals ® The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charity that works with
more than 150 partner rescue groups and no - kill
shelters to offer important programs and services to
save the
lives of NYC's homeless animals.
Animal welfare advocates now have
more data, studies and information about
sheltering and
life saving strategies than ever before.
Our
Shelter Pet A.L.O.H.A.Transfer Program helps
save lives by sending dogs to mainland
shelters with
more exposure and high adoption rates.
She's a pioneer in the field of
shelter medicine, author or co-author of
more than 100 journal articles and textbook chapters, and is a co-founder of the Million Cat Challenge., a
shelter - based campaign to
save the
lives of one million cats in North America over a five - year period.)
When you adopt from our rescue, you enable us to pull another lab from a
shelter, which
saves the
life of another dog and creates
more space at the
shelter so that new dogs can be kept longer.
You're also
saving a
life because every animal adopted means one
more animal the rescue can pull from a kill
shelter or take directly from the surrendering owner to prevent it going to a kill
shelter.
When you foster you are changing the future of one lucky feline or canine, making space for one
more to be rescued at our
shelter, and possibly
saving a
life from a high - kill
shelter too.
In addition to adopting a Feral Cat Protection Policy,
shelters can
save even
more lives by only taking in the number of healthy cats that they can adopt out.
«Our goals are to bring together both researchers and animal welfare and control professionals, to offer a safe place for open dialogue, to translate the analyzed data outcomes so that they can be used to improve or create
shelter programs, and to offer effective alternatives to continue on the path to
save more lives,» said Pamela Burns, chair of the NCPP board of directors.
Today, Best Friends in Utah has a number of partnerships with
shelters, providing them with the tools and resources they need to
save lives, such as fundraising events, pet adoption promotions, stipends and
more.
Sign up to become a
shelter partner and we will work together to
save even
more lives.
To date,
more than 1,100
shelters in the U.S. and Canada have signed up for The Challenge and collectively have
saved more than 750,000 feline
lives.
«Daily care, food, vaccinations, and other essential needs and enrichment for pets in our
shelter costs $ 25,000 a month;
more when including spay and neuter procedures, wellness exams, and emergency medical care or other
life -
saving treatments,» says Sarah Kammerer, Executive Director.
Animal League America has enjoyed a long history of collaborating with other
shelter and rescue groups across the country and around the globe to
save the
lives of
more than 1 million dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens.
The
more people read it, the
more people will be positively inspired to help
save the
lives of pets in our nation's
shelters.
Click here to read
more about the historic outbreak and response, most significantly how this allowed the
shelter to refocus on establishing their capacity for care in order to reduce all infectious disease and increase their
life saving abilities.
Rick DuCharme, Founder and Director of First Coast No
More Homeless Pets August 2012 The fact is that if municipal or contracted private animal
shelters are where the cats are dying, then you must work with the
shelter if you want to
save their
lives.
Financial assistance from one or
more of RADAR's funds, together with the participation of a rescue group,
saves the
lives of dogs who otherwise would most likely be put to sleep in rural
shelters: older dogs, black dogs, special - needs dogs and medical - needs dogs, regardless of breed.
HSBV is an open admission municipal
shelter which has achieved a 92 %
live release rate and strives to be innovative to
save more lives.
How would you like to
save more cats»
lives, do
more adoptions, and cut costs at your animal
shelter?
There's no better way to create sustainable change for cats than by working with
shelters to help them
save more lives.
The best change your
shelter can make right now to
save more lives is to adopt a Feral Cat Protection Policy and no longer impound community cats.
Some
shelters feel that adopting managed admission means they're not truly «open admission» anymore, but instead, it allows
more animals in the community to be better - served, as well as
lives to be
saved.
To help you face this challenge, our experts share methods for creating faster flow - through in the
shelter - and ultimately
save more lives.
As Director of Maddie's Fund ®, she has launched a series of
live and on - demand webcasts on various
shelter medicine topics designed to help
shelter personnel address medical and behavioral problems in
shelter dogs and cats, thereby helping them
save more lives.