Sentences with phrase «shelters is a community effort»

Ending pet homelessness and decreasing the killing of animals in shelters is a community effort, and we're honored to do our part to ensure that fewer enter shelters every year.

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The chief Rabbi of wartime Rome had been sheltered by Jesuits, and he later paid eloquent and generous tribute to Pius XII and his collaborators for their rescue efforts, as did Dr. Raffael Contoni, head of Italy's wartime Jewish Assistance Committee and later president of the union of Italian Jewish communities.

Truly, I believe no kill has to come from a community effort, where hard to adopt animals are shared through identified strengths of shelters in the area.

It is heartening to hear, though, that more communities are getting the idea that no - kill can't be achieved by a shelter alone and that more and more shelters are making the effort to forge links with their communities to end animal homelessness together.

Friends of Strays is part of a group effort in Pinellas County to work with our partner shelters to save lives and impact the community through responsible pet ownership.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

These lifesaving results have been achieved due to a comprehensive revamping of shelter operations, combined with a centralized focus on community collaboration and partnerships to increase sterilization and adoption efforts.

Sure you can create pocket communities of no kill shelters, but unless those efforts show up as an over all reduction in kill rate on a national scale, it just means the problem is being handed to someone else.

To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum to train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters; and in the implementation of a national effort to promote accountability and transparency in animal shelter operations.

How Stress is Sabotaging Your Cat Adoption Efforts, its companion webcast, How Stress is Sabotaging Your Dog Adoption Efforts, and future webcasts on preventing and treating stress and the behavior problems it can cause, are all part of an ongoing series of educational programs from Maddie's Institute, the academic division of Maddie's Fund, providing the most innovative animal welfare information to shelter staff, veterinarians, rescue groups and community members to increase the lifesaving of homeless dogs and cats community - wide.

This is truly a community effort with our fans, LDI volunteers, staff / volunteers at shelters, rescues & animal control facilities, police departments and veterinary clinics all working together to get lost dogs home to their rightful owners.

April 26, 2017 Maddie's Fund ®, a national family foundation established by Dave and Cheryl Duffield to revolutionize the status and well - being of companion animals, has surprised 15 animal welfare leaders with Maddie Hero Awards for their incredible efforts in furthering the no - kill nation mission through shelter medicine, community lifesaving and big picture thinking.

Over the years the needs of «at risk» dogs and cats have been changing due to the incredible efforts of innovative rescue groups (like us), an increase in the communities desire for No Kill shelters and an increased awareness of the need to adopt a pet rather than buy from a breeder.

Like many community oriented shelters, the facility is heavily reliant on the tireless efforts of volunteers.

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.

Last but not least, you, the Aiken community, who year after year have supported our efforts with enthusiasm and generosity, who have adopted your pets from the thousands of deserving animals who end up in the Shelter through no fault of their own, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pShelter through no fault of their own, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pShelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pshelter, and we could not be prouder.

This inexpensive service is a great way to gain helpful tips in an effort to continually improve your shelter and its services so that you may better serve the animals and people in your community.

Last but not least, you, the Aiken community, who have supported our efforts with enthusiasm and generosity, adopted your pets from the thousands of deserving animals who end up in the Shelter, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pShelter, and who are working to end the excessive population of homeless animals by spaying and neutering your animals — you have designated the Shelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pShelter as your community shelter, and we could not be pshelter, and we could not be prouder.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and

Her efforts doubled NHS's adoption numbers in the first three months after she took over the shelter, and helped make Washoe County one of the nation's first no - kill communities — an achievement it's maintained to today.

And although you are relieved that a record number of shelter animals were saved last year (almost 3000) thanks to the combined efforts of FOTAS, the County and the community, you are profoundly saddened that another 1900 had to be euthanized, either because they were irreparably damaged emotionally and / or physically by the cruelty or neglect of other humans or because we just couldn't find them homes fast enough.

Love Amplified Award presented by Petco to NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations for Clear the Shelters: In recognition of NBC and Telemundo owned stations marketing and community outreach efforts, in partnership with hundreds of animal shelters across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, the stations» «Clear the Shelters» pet adoption campaign was inspired by a local pet adoption effort spearheaded by NBC 5 (KXAS) and Telemundo 39 (KXTX) in Dallas - Forth Worth, Texas and expanded nationally in 2015, resulting in more than 70,000 pet adoptions.

Best Friends offered our support to the effort, and we have been meeting with city officials to hammer out a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as to how Best Friends can most effectively engage with the community to help them realize their no - kill aspirations and identify which programs are going to have the greatest positive impact on shelter numbers.

From helping animals displaced by Hurricane Sandy to leading efforts to establish community cat programs and high - quality, high - volume spay / neuter clinics, Dr. Sarah Kirk is an animal welfare and shelter medicine leader, and has worked her entire career as a shelter veterinarian, consultant, and emergency responder, most recently as the Medical Director of the ASPCA Field Investigation and Response emergency team.

From helping animals displaced by Hurricane Sandy to leading efforts to establish community cat programs and high - quality, high - volume spay / neuter clinics, Dr. Sarah Kirk is an animal welfare and shelter medicine leader.

Many are supporting community TNR efforts or creating TNR programs of their own, sometimes referred to as Shelter - Neuter - Return (SNR), Return to Field (RTF) or Feral Freedom programs.

Like many community oriented shelters, the facility is heavily reliant on local support and the tireless efforts of volunteers.

How Stress is Sabotaging Your Dog Adoption Efforts is part of an ongoing series of educational programs from Maddie's Institute, the academic division of Maddie's Fund ®, providing the most innovative animal welfare information to shelter staff, veterinarians, rescue groups and community members to increase the lifesaving of homeless dogs and cats community - wide.

We were able to educate her about our Good Felines program, which humanely and effectively limits the reproduction of community cats through trap - neuter - return (TNR) and shelter - neuter - return (SNR) efforts.

We are an all volunteer run 501 (c) 3 organization providing support to local shelters and rescues through donations of food and other supplies in an effort to bridge the gap between shelters / rescues and the community.

CAPA mandates the programs and services which have proven so successful at lifesaving in shelters which have implemented them; follows the only model that has actually created a No Kill community; and, focuses its effort on the very shelters that are doing the killing.

Community Animal Rescue Effort is no longer affiliated with the Evanston Animal Shelter.

There are also shelters where intake is decreasing, often due to years of successful community efforts.

Through our dedicated outreach efforts, more pets are staying in their homes, reducing shelter populations and unwarranted euthanasia within the community.

Central to this model is an «advisory council or task force representing a wide spectrum of community concerns and perspectives» whose members review available dog bite data, current laws, and «sources of ineffectiveness» and recommend realistic and enforceable policy, coupled with outreach to the media and educational efforts directed at those in regular contact with «dog owners and potential victims» (e.g., medical and veterinary professionals, animal control / shelters, teachers)(AVMA, 2001).

There is, however, evidence that such laws unfairly target responsible pet guardians and their well - socialized dogs, are inhumane, and impede community safety and humane sheltering efforts (Sacks et al., 2000; Wapner, 2000; Taylor, 2004).

Beagles in our program come to us with a variety of backgrounds: some arrive from high kill shelters in the southern U.S, while others are released to us via collaborative efforts with biomedical research facilities where dogs are retiring from their «jobs» in the medical community.

«Although the AuSable Valley Animal Shelter serves Crawford County, the award was given to include broader efforts to care for animals in the community such as the Leaning Oaks Cat Haven, a cat shelter in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford County Animal Control Officer Gail Foguth, individuals who rescue homeless animals and people who make donations to the shelter.Shelter serves Crawford County, the award was given to include broader efforts to care for animals in the community such as the Leaning Oaks Cat Haven, a cat shelter in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford County Animal Control Officer Gail Foguth, individuals who rescue homeless animals and people who make donations to the shelter.shelter in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford County Animal Control Officer Gail Foguth, individuals who rescue homeless animals and people who make donations to the shelter.shelter.»

In many areas of the U.S., unlimited admission of cats is not a legal mandate for shelters, yet millions of community (unowned and outdoor) cats are regularly admitted and, despite strong efforts by shelters, most cats do not make it out alive.

John Steinbeck «The Grapes of Wrath» Art Ayris, executive pastor at First Baptist Church of Leesburg, made the following remark in an e-mail when he sent an update on how the church is doing in its effort to raise cash for an old motel and renovate it as a shelter for homeless families: «You know we are living somewhat in a Grapes of Wrath time — this is very moving to me to see people respond to the needs of hurting people in their own community.»

Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.

It has shown us that achieving a no - kill society is possible, although it certainly won't happen overnight — it will require time, effort, commitment and support from all stakeholders, including animal shelters, rescue groups, animal welfare organizations, communities, and citizens, all equally invested in lifesaving.

The Foundation, which has faced constant capacity challenges the past two months, is asking the community to help find homes for every adoptable dog waiting in its adoption centers during the four - day special in an effort to create space for the more than 1,800 lost, unwanted and abandoned dogs expected to enter the shelter's care throughout the month of September.

There is, however, evidence that such laws unfairly target responsible pet guardians and their well - socialized dogs, are inhumane and impede community safety and humane sheltering efforts.»

It is part of our company mandate to help those less fortunate within our communities, and as such, Forward is proud to support and sponsor rescue efforts for feral and abandoned cats as well as dogs and cats in shelters and rescues.

Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11