Sentences with phrase «shelters teach their communities»

Open Paw is a national training program we offer designed to help shelters teach their communities basic animal training techniques while also making their shelter animals more adoptable.

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Partnering for Pets works mostly with local animal shelters and communities; they also hold adoption events for homeless pets and teach humane education.

During our Clinical Foundations block, each surgery group of three students was assigned a shelter patient that was going to be castrated through the community surgery service at the teaching hospital.

The organization has also been teaching the community how TNR for community cats is good public policy, as it effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies, saving taxpayer dollars in the process.

The timing could not have been better, since Dr. Julie Levy, Director of Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program and founder of Operation Catnip, was currently teaching a course on community cat management.

In addition to her impact teaching students all over the U.S. as well as globally, some of her notable achievements include groundbreaking work with community cats in the early 90s through Operation CatNip; advancing the field and credibility of shelter medicine through disease prevention, outbreak response and prioritizing lifesaving over euthanasia; and more recent projects like the Million Cat Challenge.

Through education and community outreach programs, GDRP teaches the language and social structure of dogs, mentors shelters willing to participate in pioneering industry wide changes in housing methods, and brings awareness and assistance to over breeding.

It's about sharing knowledge and tools to help address the root causes of overpopulation in individual communities, like sponsoring staff trips to The HSUS's annual Animal Care Expo, helping with vetting costs or connecting shelters with nonprofit resources like Humane Alliance, which teaches organizations how to operate successful high - volume spay / neuter clinics.

We offer shelter tours and classroom presentations to teach children about responsible pet care, safety around animals, and the role of the animal shelter in the community.

«SASS [provides] adoptable shelter animals access to affordable and excellent surgical care and [makes] VSC a clinical teaching center of excellence while enhancing our referral and community relationships.»

Luke and Lily Lerner Spay / Neuter Clinic is a valuable community resource providing both teaching opportunities and professional, personalized spay and neutering services to shelters and individuals in need.

Kids Community Service (KCS) is our volunteer program that teaches middle school and high school students about the shelter, the community and the animals aCommunity Service (KCS) is our volunteer program that teaches middle school and high school students about the shelter, the community and the animals acommunity and the animals around us.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.