This bill will help protect battered partners and their pets by extending current federal domestic violence protections to include pets, and authorizing grant money to help domestic violence
shelters accommodate pets (currently, only 3 percent of these shelters allow pets) or arrange for pet shelter.
Not exact matches
You'll take in a
pet for days, weeks, or months, helping free up local
shelters to
accommodate other homeless animals.
For example,
shelters set up by the Red Cross
accommodate only service animals and will not accept
pets.
The emergency
shelter for people escaping the floods couldn't
accommodate animals, so the Brant County SPCA set up a temporary intake area for people's
pets who were then transported to the hangar as well.
The program taps experts from the GreaterGood.org's longtime animal
shelter renovation program to retrofit women's
shelters so they can
accommodate pets.
It is our goal to minimize the number of animals surrendered to
shelters due to an inability to find suitable housing that
accommodates pets.
Besides taking pressure off
shelters — which can't always
accommodate every
pet — the program benefits both dogs and humans.
Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF - T)-- domestic violence
shelters that
accommodate pets as well
It is particularly important to include
pet needs in evacuation planning, as many
shelters will not be able to
accommodate animals other than those assisting people with disabilities.
Others have made room in their
shelters and foster networks to
accommodate shelter animals being transported out of the hurricane region to make space for the many displaced
pets who will need accommodation in the area.
A domestic violence
shelter with the ability to
accommodate pets by providing offsite housing (e.g., foster program, boarding facility).
The
shelter was overwhelmed with other homeless
pets and couldn't
accommodate three more dogs and their puppies, which would be coming any day.
A few communities are addressing this problem by providing
shelter to
accommodate both the homeless people and their
pets.
Not all evacuation centers in Texas are accepting
pets this week, but many are
accommodating them in separate areas or coordinating with off - site
shelters to house them.
Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF - T) ™ is the first and only global initiative offering guidance to family violence
shelters on how to
accommodate families with
pets.
Other Shelters: A domestic violence
shelter with the ability to
accommodate pets by providing offsite housing (e.g., foster program, boarding facility).