Sentences with phrase «shelter workers»

Turning euthanasia stress into adoption celebration will improve the morale of shelter workers while helping save the animals in our care.

J: Some of my readers have started support groups for shelter workers or for families who are caregivers for dogs with behavior or medical issues.

It's an expression many animal shelter workers are familiar with.

We have developed great relationships with shelter workers who contact us when they have animals in danger of being euthanized.

Her only interaction was with shelter workers who came by twice a day to clean her space and provide food and water.

Students will also earn community service hours by assisting shelter workers in the daily animal care tasks.

-LSB-...] made by shelter workers, animal control or law enforcement are wrong.

Ask shelter workers what this dog is like, but also see for yourself.

Many shelter workers do all they can to find the right fit the first time.

Each episode follows the journey of an adoptable senior pet as their lives are changed by great nutrition and care from shelter workers.

Volunteers and shelter workers at shelters across the country have taken in family pets when someone dies and no one is willing or able to care for them.

These results raise difficult questions, because shelter workers and veterinarians are expected to determine the breed (s) of dogs in their facilities on a daily basis.

So much for objections of animal control officials that injections would have an adverse impact on shelter workers.

I am former shelter worker, now medically out, but suitable dog and training just beyond where have my experience.

So, it goes without saying that the average shelter worker sees many homeless animal faces pass by each week.

Often shelter workers know the history of the pets that are up for adoption.

The chip includes information that would allow shelter workers and others to track down the owner if the pet gets loose.

The implication is that shelter workers love animals less.

To avoid compounding the current disaster with further injury, please pass these guidelines onto shelter workers, donors, volunteers, etc about safe sleeping and products for babies.

In addition, shelter workers express frustration that large dogs are much harder to attract a suitable adopter or rescue.

We have great relationships with certain shelter workers who contact us when they have animals in danger of being euthanized and we rescue as many as we can off those lists.

Information presented here has been provided by human foster mothers, veterinary staff and cat shelter workers.

She also saw how this lack influenced how the community saw its shelter, as well as the experience of shelter workers.

All under the guise of «training» shelter workers in «euthanasia».

Animal shelter workers are invited to participate in a national survey to understand rabies prevention policies.

I wrote this article from the perspective of both a veterinarian and former shelter worker.

Animal control workers and shelter workers see a lot of awful things.

The newly arrived cat was stressed out and aggressive with shelter workers.

-- Many shelter workers and directors who lived through the 1970s and 1980s, when pet overpopulation was a real and severe problem, killed lots of animals for time or space.

Some reports suggest as many as 50 dogs had been shot and dumped in a landfill across the street from the shelter, and quote a former a former shelter worker as saying cats were euthanized by being beaten on the head with a pipe

National concern over pit bull attacks and fear of potential lawsuits have prompted a record number of residents in Orlando and some other Central Florida areas to disown their pit bulls, animal shelter workers say.

Shelter workers call the dreaded phenomenon «Black Dog Syndrome.»

Shelter workers assist adults in finding adequate employment, and help place children in schools or daycare.

Giving shelter worker and volunteers a more comfortable environment that encourages spending more time with the animals, getting to know them better and socializing them.

By the year 2000, the balance between homeless animals and people who were willing to adopt shelter animals was far different from what it had been in 1970, but many people in that older generation of shelter workers did not recognize the extent of the change and continued to believe in 1970s - style operating procedures that were driven by pet overpopulation.

A cross-country comparison of perceptions of shelter workers regarding breed identification.

When Philadelphia - based animal rescue Operation Ava took in a pair of 8 - month - old pit bull mixes, shelter workers noticed something strange about the dogs.

However, there are other equally tragic problems that result from pet overpopulation: the transformation of some animal shelters into «warehouses,» the acceptance of cruelty to animals as a way of life in our society, and the stress that caring shelter workers suffer when they are forced to euthanize one animal after another.

Shelter workers try to rehabilitate and rehome unwanted dogs.

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing the DNA of shelter dogs reveals that even experienced animal shelter workers often mislabel dogs as «pit bulls,» resulting in potentially devastating consequences for the dogs including decreased chances at adoption.

This just goes to show that, despite many of them being perfectly nice and well - meaning, most shelter workers don't know what they heck they're doing, when it comes to training.

For several years, animal services employees — who transport the animals to Halifax Humane Society in Daytona Beach — have wanted the cages removed, saying their presence encourages drop - offs, while shelter workers wanted the cages there to prevent people from just letting their animals loose on the roadway, Wilson said.

In other words, the shelters provide a place for Houser to demonstrate his product and then pay him to show shelter workers how to use it!

JDHF co-founders Nancy and Katherine Heigl appreciate the uphill and endless challenges that shelter workers face every day.