Sentences with phrase «shelters for almost»

Our training program has been successfully keeping dogs in their homes, and out of shelters for almost two decades!

I've been working in animal training and sheltering for almost 10 years, and have had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented individuals in the field.

I've been at the shelter for almost a year.

Joyce had been at the shelter for almost two months, sadly watching people pass her by for other dogs.

Not exact matches

From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.

«It absolutely sickens me,» said Brooklyn Councilman Lew Fidler who chairs the Council's Youth Services Committee, noting that the cuts will slash almost one in six shelter beds for runaway youth.

The city has allocated almost $ 15 million in emergency funding for the initiative, according to the New York Times, and is seeking bids from shelter and housing providers.

This three - season tarp shelter is ready for almost anything with its adjustable corners that make it easy to make almost any shape you want with it.

Volunteer at a local soup kitchen, shelter, or almost anywhere, not only provide you the ability of the local community, it provides a good opportunity for you to meet other single people in your age group.

Russell is looking forward to spending some time with his wife and, fantasizing about romance returning to their lives after an absence of almost three decades, urges her to adjust - but Edie, who had a lackluster acting career before starting to breed, doesn't want to adapt, as for too long motherhood has been her shelter from «not risking failure or disappointment».

The city is expected to formally terminate its contract with the Volusia County SPCA on Monday, bringing an end for now to a dispute over inadequate animal control service.The city Fire Department actually took over animal control responsibilities almost two weeks ago, although the city still has a contract with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.Relying on various interim agreements, the department assumed the responsibility Dec. 24 after the SPCA said its shelter had no room for Deltona's stray cats and dogs.

For Bob and I, our feline family had inadvertently grown by two — Fluffy a temporary foster that turned into full time family member and Jessica an almost casualty of our local shelter who chose us with a vengeance.

An unhappy dog leads to an unhappy family which almost always leads to another innocent dog sitting in the shelter waiting for a new home.

In almost 20 yrs as a shelter volunteer, I heard those stories on an almost weekly basis.ANd after 1 - 2 rejections for piddly reasons, people will be soured on that experience for life.

It's almost impossible for an old guy, no matter how sweet, to compete with the younger dogs in the shelter.

With its almost harp like look this fun cat shelter encourages the natural love cats have for stretching.

The shelter is almost always at capacity, so this decline is not because of a decrease in the need for rescue and prevention of surrender.

Marianne Clark, an animal control officer for almost three years before her firing in April, made a reference in an affidavit to «animals being thrown around the shelter.»

That goes double for almost every volunteer at an animal shelter.

It was almost like a dramatic pause, waiting for the rest of the shelter world to catch up.

Transported to the shelter and given the name Astro by the animal care team, the young pup spent almost two months being nursed back to health so he could be cleared for adoption.

Lens And Leash: In a community like Jackson where almost everyone has a dog / cat already do you find it difficult to find homes for the animals in the shelter?

In a Petfinder survey, shelter and rescue groups reported that most pets are listed for 12.5 weeks, whereas, black dogs spend almost four times as long on the site waiting to be adopted.

Laurie McCannon, Director at NEAS, said, «It was really common for almost all animals sent to the pound back in the day to be euthanized, so we are glad that the industry has changed and most shelters are now on the same page.»

For almost ten years, more and more resources were put into spay and neuter programs, but the live outcome rate at our city shelter was stuck around 50 %.

At the time, the growing demand for shelter veterinarians prompted almost all veterinary colleges to provide shelter medicine education through coursework, residencies or externships.

Grey Muzzle's grant helps Almost Home with their Seniors for Seniors program and medical costs for senior dogs, thus enabling them to rescue more senior dogs from kill - shelters.

Sunny transformed almost immediately from a sad shelter dog to a happy, beaming family member, and she thrived for more than two and a half years in Lori's care.

«No kill» shelters are almost constantly overflowing and often have animals that have been in residence for years.

Non-pedigree cats and kittens are almost always available from animal shelters, and these may be the best places from which to choose the right cat for you.

More animals end up in shelters for this reason than almost any other.

Be sure to have the found animal scanned for a microchip, almost any vet clinic, or shelter can do this for you for FREE, and some emergency vets are open 24 hours a day.

Conversely, the cost of not altering the cats is to add 3.5 kittens per year (Nutter, Levine & Stoskopf, 2004; Pedersen, 1991) for each stray female, which at the cost to a shelter of approximately $ 250 per cat would cost a shelter almost $ 900 in husbandry expenses for those 3.5 kittens; were they not sheltered, the kittens would be expected to have 75 % mortality (Table 1).

The local shelter hasn't killed any cats for almost 10 years thanks to TNR organizations like One More Chance, the group Neal started and now volunteers for.

For almost 30 years, Pet Project Foundation (PPF) and the San Clemente - Dana Point Animal Shelter have been united in a unique partnership to provide pro-humane care to the lost and abandoned animals of our two cities.

This Texas shelter only has about a week's worth of operating funds left to care for their almost 400 animals.

Almost a decade after Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Louisiana SPCA) is diligently working to regain the capacity lost when the former shelter located in the Upper Ninth Ward was destroyed beyond repair by the worst natural disaster this country has ever seen.

When I asked the shelter to track the number of folks who adopt these dogs who end up as no - shows for class, they noted the no - show rate was almost half.

And then, when the dogs make it to the shelter, knowing that that is their last hope for a good life — not an almost certain end to that life.

Tragically, for yet another year, officials at that agency who are tasked with oversight of the Virginia shelters continued to look the other way while PETA killed the vast majority of animals it took in and sought out, including 1,213 cats out of 1,487 cats, 596 out of 956 dogs, almost all the chickens, and more than half of all wild animals it took in.

She is an almost 10 year old border collie mix who has been at the shelter for two years.

They number over 250 active participants, ranging in age from 12 to 87, and provide almost 60,000 hours of labor each year for the shelter.

Sunny has been waiting at the public shelter in Radauti, Romania for almost two...

I helped for decades, as a prolific and widely distributed journalist and statistician, to introduce the humane community to almost all of the now standard methods of reducing shelter killing.

The good news is that almost any shelter dog can make a wonderful, lifelong companion for the right person or family.

Currently, NAIA also gets calls for help from people who have adopted bad tempered or chronically ill shelter dogs, a phenomenon that almost never occurred as recently as four years ago.

In addition to finding homes for almost 500,000 shelter pets each year through its in - store adoption program in all PetSmart stores across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, PetSmart Charities provides funding to non-profits aligned with its mission through four key areas of grant support: Preventing Pet Homelessness; Helping Shelter Pets Thrive; Supporting the Bond Between People and Pets; and Emergency Relief and Disaster Sshelter pets each year through its in - store adoption program in all PetSmart stores across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, PetSmart Charities provides funding to non-profits aligned with its mission through four key areas of grant support: Preventing Pet Homelessness; Helping Shelter Pets Thrive; Supporting the Bond Between People and Pets; and Emergency Relief and Disaster SShelter Pets Thrive; Supporting the Bond Between People and Pets; and Emergency Relief and Disaster Support.

For instance, in California from 2000 to 2010, the number of cats adopted from animal control shelters reportedly increased by almost 40 %, from under 60,000 to over 80,000 a year [9].

Almost every animal shelter and veterinarian in the country has a scanner that will scan for the standard 125 kHz chips.

When we found out that shelters and vets had just a few bags of food left for almost 200 dogs and cats, we had to find a way to get food to the island as quickly as possible.