Sentences with phrase «shelters increase their reach»

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When shelters reach the point of overcrowding, it threatens the welfare of all animals in a facility due to stress, weakened immune systems and increased risk of disease transmission.

Among them is increasing the reach of CNKP's Community Pet Help Desk by establishing a staff position and space to operate it at ACCT Philly, to assist struggling pet owners and prevent shelter surrenders.

Progressive programs in shelter medicine like the University of Florida's online master's degree and innovative leaders like Dr. Brittany Watson at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (BOX 1) are expanding the reach and redefining the meaning of shelter medicine by bringing students into communities to provide medical care and education to at - risk animals and their owners in an effort to further increase companion animal health and decrease relinquishment.

The colony's population will continue to increase until it reaches the number that can be supported by the available food and shelter.

An increasing number of animal and human welfare organizations are reaching that same conclusion, says Jenny Coffey, a licensed clinical social worker who works for Animal Haven, a shelter in New York City.

LifeLine will leverage the three - year award to focus on reaching and sustaining no - kill rates by increasing adoptions, staff training and veterinary care support in the shelters.

AHS and ACN had to work together to reach a common goal: dramatically increase the live - release rate at the county's shelter.

One answer is to reach out to your community to form a «Friends of the Shelter» group whose mission is to increase adoptions, provide volunteer support, and seek alternative sources of funding for your municipal sShelter» group whose mission is to increase adoptions, provide volunteer support, and seek alternative sources of funding for your municipal sheltershelter.