Sentences with phrase «shelter than a pet»

You are more likely to purchase a dog with health or behavioral issues from a shelter than a pet store.

Not exact matches

The Cook County ordinance requires suburban pet stores sell animals from government shelters, rescue agencies and human societies or federally licensed breeders with fewer than five reproducing female animals.

Cook County has since passed its own version of the ordinance, which requires stores to sell pets from government shelters, rescue agencies and humane societies, or federally licensed breeders with no more than five reproducing female animals.

Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50 cats.

And six to eight million pets are given up to shelters or rescue groups every year for one reason or another, leaving these organizations with many more animals than they can place in homes.

As an organization whose mission is to end the killing of pets in shelters, of course Best Friends Animal Society encourages people looking for a pet to adopt from a shelter or rescue group, rather than buying from a pet store, breeder or online retailer.

It just means changing our strategy to spay / neuter, something that is cheaper, easier and more humane than building shelters to lock up unwanted pets.

Solution: While it may seem unfair that your pet has to spend time alone, it is still better than making him take his chances in a shelter!

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!

What started with three pets in the first year now shelters 150 — from hamsters and cats to horses and dogs — in kennels or foster homes, and provides relief for more than 1,000 people seeking safe temporary housing.

Nevertheless, adopting a rabbit from a shelter is definitely cheaper than buying from a pet shop.

The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy report found that 96 percent of relinquished pets came from somewhere other than a pet store, and 70 percent of the time the reasons owners relinquish a dog or cat to a shelter could have been prevented with consumer education.

Adopting a dog from a shelter is cheaper than buying from a pet shop.

If you live in a city other than Tulsa, you should contact the city attorney, animal shelter or police department (or check to see if the local library has a copy of the city ordinances) and find out exactly how many pets you are allowed.

The Clear the Shelters groundbreaking pet adoption campaign will team up more than 40 local NBC and Telemundo television stations with hundreds of animal shelters from all across the country to find new homes for thousands of homeless pets.

Through June 2006, Best Friends provided many items and services for pets and shelter staff and helped increase the number of pets adopted annually from under 2,000 in 1994 to more than 4,600 in 2005.

«We have rescued and sheltered far more pets than we can count, and the problem was still staring back at us,» Anita says.

The first - of - its - kind network was established in 2013 as an extension of Hill's Food, Shelter & Love ™ program, which has donated more than $ 280 million worth of Hill's Science Diet ® brand foods to over 1,000 shelters in the United States and helped more than eight million pets find new homes.

Massachusetts has two bills pending — the first establishes an abuse registry funded by a pet food tax paid by consumers, and the second would fine any shelter, pet store or breeder violating the provision, with a fine of not less than $ 1,000 or imprisonment for a period of not more than one year for a first offense.

In 2017, Purina provided more than 395,000 pounds of Purina Pro Plan dog and cat food and Tidy Cats cat litter to SDHS, giving the shelter one less (big) thing to worry about and allowing them to focus more resources on helping the pets in their care find forever families.

Nevertheless, adopting a cat from a shelter is definitely cheaper than buying from a pet shop.

So instead of implementing HONEST reforms that help reduce pet populations in communities and programs that HONESTLY rehome animals surrendered to shelters or picked up as strays, they instead focus on these quick fixes just to get rid of the animals, rather than finding good, loving homes for the animals.

The NCPPSP also reports that pets acquired from friends make up more than 30 % of pets surrendered to shelters.

Myth # 2: I can't find what I want at a shelter While it's true that adopting a purebred or a young puppy can require more patience than going to a pet store or breeder, it can also lead to a better match for you and your family, for the reasons described above.

Since Pets for People was started in 1986, the shelter has provided more than 350 Orlando senior citizens with pets.

Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets: $ 372,000.

Down to three million shelter pets euthanized every year — progress, but we can do better than this, for the animals.

More than 400 shelter pets found themselves in new homes on Saturday and Sunday, thanks to the NKLA Adoption Weekend held at La Brea Tar Pits.

Research indicates that 90 percent of puppies found in pet stores come from a puppy mill rather than from a shelter.

Rescue is not a for profit business and should not be treated as such, if people rescue dogs thinking they can make money on them what makes them any different than puppy mill stores, they just source their pets from shelters.

Adoptable pets from more than 50 local shelters and rescues including LA Animal Services and Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in Mission Hills will be featured.

We know that those coming into our shelter to adopt an animal are already choosing to do the right thing by saving a life, rather than seeking out a pet store, breeder, or online ad.

As movements and activists urge potential pet parents to «adopt don't shop,» working to minimize the wasteful death of innocent animals, caring people everywhere have opted to find their furry friends at shelters and rescues rather than pet stores and breeders.

I think it takes a new level of maturity for a shelter to say; we're taking in more pets than we can rehome.

There is more oversight of breeders who sell their puppies to pet stores than any other type of breeder, shelter or rescue.

On entering the shelter, cortisol is higher on Day 1 than in pets at home.

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.

Currently, more than 85 communities have passed ordinances that ban pet stores from selling dogs, cats and rabbits unless the animals come from shelters or rescue groups.

And because of their leadership on this program, Amazon has donated more than $ 50,000 of pet food, supplies and toys to this organization over the past year and will continue to support the shelter with future donations.»

If a pet store is selling dogs rather than hosting adoptable ones from shelters, you can bet they're getting them from puppy mills.

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.

More than 200 dogs, cats and other pets from a devastated area of New York's Long Island are being sheltered in the gymnasium of a community college.

Regarding dogs from shelters or rescue organizations: when adopting a pet, you are better off getting an adult dog rather than a puppy, if you are an inexerienced or first time owner.

If your pet is sick and suffering from old age, a consultation with the vet may be in order rather than a trip to the shelter.

More dogs and cats die each year as a result of homelessness than any other cause of death, but shelter medicine can turn the tide for homeless pets.

Impact of the study: Among persons relinquishing dogs to a shelter, those who believed questionnaire responses were confidential reported owner - directed aggression and fear of strangers in their pets more frequently than relinquishers who believed responses were nonconfidential.

Winograd's criterion, «Saving a higher percentage of animals,» requires that a city's shelters be receiving more healthy animals who can be safely rehomed ---- meaning that the city has been less effective than San Francisco in eliminating surplus births and in promoting programs to help keep pets in their homes, for example by giving landlords incentives to rent to pet keepers.

County government spends $ 508,000 each year on animal control, including more than $ 130,000 in contract fees to animal shelters that house and destroy unwanted pets.

Canines can not be tethered or chained outdoors for longer than nine hours per day, with appropriate shelter provided for all pets kept outdoors.

Most shelters and rescue organizations are committed to keeping as many animals as possible in loving homes and saving them from the possibility of being needlessly surrendered to the shelter (especially since most shelters have more pets than they can handle as it is).