Sentences with phrase «shelters find their owners»

Less than 2 % of cats brought to shelters find their owners, while they have upwards of a 20 % chance of finding their way home by themselves.

Not exact matches

The couple had been planning to visit KC Pet Project, Kansas City's municipal animal shelter, over the weekend, but late last week they heard from «a family of wonderful pet owners» who'd been trying to find a new home for the corgi — the breed pictured on her sign.

(Just to be clear, I actually do own a cat, and I do love her... But if she were another cat, I would have turned her into the shelter when I could legally do so after caring for her for six weeks and NO luck with finding her owners.

They eventually find a place, a somewhat repressive establishment where the owner's son has a hard time keeping tabs on his sheltered wife, who longs desperately for a place where she can be free from the boring farm life and hubby's jealous rants.

The film tells the story of how an already battered soul struggled to find shelter in California until she was eventually taken in by the owner of a laundromat.

Blood Will Out By Walter Kirn Liveright • $ 15.95 • ISBN 97816314902249 In 1998, novelist Walter Kirn (Up in the Air) wanted to find a home for a shelter dog so badly that he offered to drive the dog all the way from his home in Montana to a wealthy prospective owner in New York City.

In other words, a majority of APBT's end up in shelters because they were either found as strays or were relinquished by their owners for extenuating reasons, such as: apartment pet restrictions, extraordinary veterinary needs or financial hardship.

Animal cruelty (OK Title 21 § 1685), a felony in Oklahoma, includes «any person who shall willfully or maliciously torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate any animal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprived of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering...» When an officer arrives on the scene, if the animals are found to be at risk, but the situation is not critical enough to warrant felony charges, any Oklahoma peace officer or animal control officer may describe the problems and give the owner or caregiver a certain number of days to correct the situation.

Not only does this website help pet shelters quicken the adoption process and ensure that the new owners are the right fit, those who have to leave their precious furkids for various circumstances can use the website to «date», to find their pets the paw - fect new owner.

National organizations like the SPCA and the Humane Society, as well as countless quality regional shelters can all help with the difficult task of finding the appropriate home for a good pet whose owner can no longer care for it.

This could include temporary boarding while a home is found, or pay shipment to a predetermined owner, or make a donation to a no - kill shelter to take in the pet and care for it while awaiting adoption.

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.

Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine found that shelters adopt out 2.6 million dogs and return almost one million to owners each year.

Recently launched Adoptapet.com gives owners another outlet for rehoming, in which they find new homes for their pets without using an intermediary like a shelter.

If the animal's owner isn't found and you'd like to adopt him yourself after the stray holding period is up, your local shelter can help in the process of transferring legal ownership.

Animal shelters tend to keep owner - given names — even when the animal is seized from its abusers — in the belief that an animal yanked out of everything he knows (good or bad) will find some comfort in hearing his own familiar name.

If a citizen decides to not bring the stray to the shelter, and has made an honest effort to find an owner, the citizen may keep the animal if they wish.

If you have found a stray dog, please go to the local shelter to give the owners a chance to reclaim.

All strays should be taken to the appropriate county shelter corresponding to where the stray was found for a stray hold to give owners a central location to claim their animals.

We do this by rescuing dogs from high kill shelters, taking in owner surrenders, and helping the ones who have been found as strays off the street.

They won't save them from shelters, take them from owners or try to find them homes.

Obtain as much information from the shelter as possible concerning the dog's previous owners to find out if there is a history of behavior problems.

Dr. Michael Good, owner of Town and Country Veterinary Clinic, founded the organization when he saw first - hand the need to get adoptable pets out of overcrowded shelters to prevent unnecessary euthanasia.

If the owner can't be found, the next step would be to take on the responsibility of the cat like the Berkowitz's or try and find him / her a permanent home through a shelter, rescue or within your circle of family, friends and community.

The priority for shelters is to find a lasting, compatible match between an owner and a pet that brings joy and a daily dose of happiness to all family members.

Our Mission The purposes for establishing Peewee's Pet Adoption World and Sanctuary are: • To operate a non-profit, no - kill shelter and adoption center for indigent animals, exclusively for charitable purposes; - To rescue, rehabilitate, and care for lost and abandoned animals; - To reunite lost animals with their owners; - To find loving and caring new homes for those animals which are suitable for adoption; - To provide shelter and care for those animals not suitable for adoption, for the duration of their lives; - To promote the humane and proper treatment of all animals.

Sherman spent a month at the shelter while his owner tried to find a place to live with Sherman that he could afford.

Goldens come into our program from private owners who can no longer keep them, from animal shelters, or from people who have found a stray Golden that has not been claimed.

So is it better to risk the dog being put down, but maybe find the owner at the shelter?

The Animal Shelter reunites lost pets with their owners, cares for, loves, and finds homes for stray, surrendered and abandoned animals, controls the pet population with mandatory spay / neuter requirements for pets that are adopted from our facility and by offering financial assistance when needed.

Our goal is to not only find forever homes for shelter and rescue pets, but to educate all pet owners on the importance of ongoing pet wellness care.

Dogs that visit the veterinarian once a year live longer and are less likely to be surrendered to a shelter because the owner has an animal health professional to answer questions and to find potential problems before they become serious.

While cats are often great about finding shelter on their own, this can lead them to places that might be dangerous for them (warm car engines) or areas where the property owners don't want them (basements, boiler rooms.

Happy was found as a stray in Harker Heights and when her owner never showed up, the shelter asked if we could take her into our program.

By having a license number, if your pet does get lost it will make it easier for a shelter, animal control or rescue to find the owner.

The shelters try very hard to reunite strays with their owners or find adopters for the animals that come into their care, but unfortunately, their intake numbers usually far exceed their return / adoption rate.

All owners should be given the right to find their animal, and the only way that's going to happen is through the local animal shelter.

The owner may have come looking for their animal at the shelter, and can not find it if you have it in your care.

New York Assembly Member Amy Paulin has re-introduced as a stand alone bill provisions from last session's shelter access bill that would help owners find lost pets.

However, many shelters and laboratories now routinely scan strays they receive for microchips, and even if you haven't listed your dog with a registry, the lab or shelter can still find the owner of a chipped dog by tracing the code number to the veterinarian who implanted the chip.

If you check your local Husky and / or Pomeranian dog shelters, you can probably find a Husky Pomeranian mix looking for a new owner.

HOWEVER, on the other hand, and this has happened several times at LBR, if a found dog goes through the shelter system, and an owner comes to LBR and says «that's my dog and I want him back».

Animal must be checked «for all currently acceptable methods of identification, including microchips, identification tags, tattoos, and licenses» Shelters must maintain «updated lists of animals reported lost, and attempt to match these lost reports with animals reported found and animals in the shelter, and shall also post all stray animals on the Internet with sufficient detail to allow them to be recognized and claimed by their owners.»

Most of these dogs have been brought in to EHDR after being abandoned at a shelter or found as a stray or have been relinquished to EHDR by owners unable to keep them.

«We got an anonymous call Thursday saying the dogs were at their owners» house,» said Jerry Swanger, Deltona Animal Control manager.The dogs - which a Volusia circuit judge sentenced to death last month because of their aggression toward people and because they have killed five cats - disappeared Oct. 31 from the shelter, where workers found a lock cut and a kennel door pried open.

And only 2 % of cat owners and 6 % of dog owners actually found their pets at an animal shelter.

Animals must be held in the shelter for 72 hours to allow their owners to find them.

All across America, pet owners are starting to sue shelters and rescues after finding out their missing and stolen dogs are being resold to new families.

Our clients are the kind of forever families we hope every shelter dog and cat will find, the pet owners who give and receive second chances thanks to financial aid organizations like FACE and the generous donors who made the unconditional love of a therapy dog a reality for several local families living with autism.

Speaking in support of the original ban on sales from breeders, Quinn said: «This proposal will help end inhumane puppy mills, protect pet owners and help shelter animals find loving homes.»