Sentences with phrase «shelters for lack of homes»

Anyone who has seen an animal euthanized in a shelter for lack of a home knows the truth behind this dangerous myth.

Every day 10,000 dogs and cats are killed in shelters for lack of a home.

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Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

GROVELAND — Despite the lack of a shelter, the South Lake Animal League has found homes for more than 500 dogs and cats since it formed in 1988, McCabe said.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) estimates that three to four million animals die in American shelters each year, most for lack of adoptive homes.

Despite a bleak economy, the percentage of pets in homes that were adopted from animal shelters and rescue groups has risen from 27 percent to 29 percent in the last two years, with the number of healthy and treatable pets losing their lives for lack of a home dropping from 3 million to 2.7 million.

Every citizen can help San Antonio achieve No Kill — where no healthy, adoptable pet will ever have to be euthanized for lack of space at a shelter or for lack of a home.

Across the USA are thousands of animal shelters, and we end up killing millions of dogs and cats every year for lack of suitable homes.

The only problem is, what about the thousands of dogs that are already here and that die on the streets and in shelters each week for lack of enough homes?

In the greater Los Angeles area, thousands upon thousands of dogs and cats end up in animal shelters each year and are killed for lack of space and lack of existing homes.

Petfinder.com Foundation works with shelters, rescue organizations and animal welfare organizations across the country to help ensure that no adopt - able pet is euthanized for lack of a good home.

These days, many purebred puppies have been surrendered to the shelters simply because the original owner decides they no longer want to have a dog in the home for various reasons (e.g. allergies, lack of time, rental owner forbids dogs, baby on the way).

The rural shelters also suffer from a lack of funding, which directly translates to a lack of hours for animal control officers to spend networking and a lack of adoption hours for the general public to view and choose the dog that they want to bring home.

How can pet overpopulation be a myth when more than 9,000 dogs and cats die in shelters every day for lack of homes?

The 501 C 3 nonprofit organization supports local rescues and shelters, taking in dogs that have been waiting for extended periods to find a home, dogs that have been returned multiple times and dogs that are struggling in the shelter environment due to fear and lack of socialization.

Low cost spay and neuter san diego are routine, affordable surgeries that can prevent thousands of animals from being born, only to suffer and struggle to survive on the streets, be abused by cruel or neglectful people, or be euthanized in animal shelters for lack of a loving home.

Please, if you care about animals, help prevent more of them from being born only to end up chained and left to waste away in people's back yards, suffering on the streets where people kick at them or shoo them away like garbage or alas, euthanized in animal shelters for lack of a good home.

In many instances, people who purchase a puppy or a kitten no longer want the animal once he or she has grown, so many of these adult dogs and cats also wind up in shelters and are often euthanized for lack of homes.

When people in the sheltering and rescue field think about the millions of cats who are euthanized every year for lack of a home, the topic of reuniting lost pet cats with their owners may seem trivial by comparison.

Kittens stay out of animal shelters that lack the capacity to care for them, new kitten caregivers get the materials and information they need to save kittens» lives, and the animal shelter helps to find homes for the adoptable kittens who are spayed or neutered and vaccinated when they're ready, at 8 weeks old.

Slowly, over the past five or six years, university studies have put forth a different picture: it's not the puppies, they say, it's the adult dogs that are picked up as strays or surrendered by owners that populate shelters and die for lack of a home.

Each of those dogs that are living on the streets, entering shelters, or being put to sleep due to a lack of good homes started out as the cute puppy that everyone thinks is so sweet and adorable and ««easy to find homes for.

These cats don't have the chance to find a forever home, and at many shelters who simply lack the space to care for all of them, some of the cats have to be put down to make space for more.

About 2.6 million dogs and cats will be killed in pounds and shelters this year, of which 2.57 million will be killed for lack of a new home.

It is no miracle to watch an animal be euthanized in a shelter for no other reason than lack of a home.

Each home you find means one less home for the dogs and cats in shelters, many of whom will be euthanized for no other reason than lack of a home.

Millions of dogs and cats are euthanized around the U.S. every year due to overpopulation, overcrowding of shelters, and lack of homes for the animals.

With the tragic number of shelter animals losing their lives for lack of homes, we hope that people seeking a pet will adopt from a shelter or rescue organization.

The Petfinder.com Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) organization that works with animal shelters and rescues across North America to ensure no adoptable pet is euthanized for lack of a home.

National figures indicate that about half of the animals in shelters are euthanized for lack of good homes.

The unconventional sculptor has since turned his attention to addressing the lack of shelter for the homeless in his hometown of Oakland, by building a series of customized, tiny homes for displaced individuals, all made from salvaged materials.