Sentences with phrase «shelters than owners»

Sadly, she said, there are many more animals coming in to shelters than owners looking for their pets.

Not exact matches

The tax code also permits the owners of a corporation, however small, to use his or her company to shelter income from passive investments, and to convert surplus revenue into capital gains, which are taxed at lower rates than income.

Royal LePage Kelowna broker / owner Francis Braam and broker / managers Dave Favell and Steve Gray recently presented more than $ 11,200 to the Kelowna Women's Shelter.

Fostering a pet from a local shelter can bring you more than just a taste of being a pet owner, and at the same time, you can also help save a life!

The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy report found that 96 percent of relinquished pets came from somewhere other than a pet store, and 70 percent of the time the reasons owners relinquish a dog or cat to a shelter could have been prevented with consumer education.

Multiple sessions continued to produce effects, and dogs entering the shelter as strays appeared more susceptible to stress than dogs released by their owners.

Regarding dogs from shelters or rescue organizations: when adopting a pet, you are better off getting an adult dog rather than a puppy, if you are an inexerienced or first time owner.

There are now more than 100 in shelters with their owners, and a mobile animal medical clinic is cruising decimated neighborhoods in Queens» Rockaways and on Staten Island.

The 2011 ASPCA $ 100K Challenge is a nationwide competition for animal shelters (and their communities) aiming to get more animals adopted or returned to their owners than ever before.

Impact of the study: Among persons relinquishing dogs to a shelter, those who believed questionnaire responses were confidential reported owner - directed aggression and fear of strangers in their pets more frequently than relinquishers who believed responses were nonconfidential.

As they're a banned breed for domestic owners in many parts of the US, an added attraction is that it's less expensive to rescue them from animal shelters than to buy them from established breeders.

Unfortunately many of the pit bulls and pit bull mixes you would come across in city shelters or similar locations, have been bred, kept and trained as fighting dogs, or were kept as guard dogs by drug dealers to be aggressive to any humans other than their owners.

Often shelters choose to work with rescue groups who know spit about behavior and training because those people can get the dogs into fosters and homes, rather than actual trainers whose focus is resolution of problem behaviors through training so the dog can STAY in the new home, and stay safely for all concerned, the dogs and the owners.

More than three weeks after an EF5 tornado ripped through Joplin, nearly 900 dogs and cats remain sheltered at the Humane Society, most of them unlikely to ever be reunited with their owners.

Seven years ago I didn't know that the shelter for the fairly affluent county I lived in killed 25 % of all the dogs that were not reclaimed by their owners or that a city less than ten miles away killed 50 % of those dogs.

Many of our more than 350 sales professionals are passionate pet owners, and they were thrilled to take part in this campaign to help find loving homes for adoptable shelter dogs in our community.

Only about 30 percent of the more than 10,000 animals that came into the shelter in 1985 were either adopted or reclaimed by their owners.

Reputable breeders include in their puppy contracts that, if for ANY reason, the new owner has to give the dog up, the Breeder has first option to take the dog back (in order to guarantee that it does not end up in a shelter or be passed from home to home with each one worse than the last).

More than 500 Montreal pit bull owners have received letters ordering them to either find their dogs new homes outside of the city or surrender them to animal shelters in the next 4 weeks.

Others are fine with rescue dogs from a shelter, but I have known more than one dog who was returned to the shelter because the new owner could not deal with the behavior problems the dog came with (and the reason they were initially turned in).

Last year, less than 10 percent of cats brought into the shelter were returned to their owners or adopted, and more than 8,000 cats were put down.

Two cats were among the more than 20 animals brought to the Naperville's A.D.O.P.T. Pet Shelter as the local facility is helping to ease overcrowding in Texas where many animals with owners remain unclaimed.

Our shelter in Largo cares for more than 8,000 animals annually that have been surrendered by their owners, along with injured wildlife.

(The owner signed all dogs over to the shelter rather than pay to get them out)

Ironically, the likelihood of being reunited with their owners is greater for lost cats if they remain where they are rather than being admitted to an animal shelter.

As a veterinarian, I have observed that shelter puppies like nothing more than to mock the predictions of both owners and veterinarians.

This is in contrast to dogs, who were over 4 times more likely to be returned to their owner by a call or visit to a shelter than by returning home on their own.

We do so through comprehensive rescue and prevention efforts: pulling at - risk animals out of the city's shelter and placing them in loving adoptive and foster homes, and providing low - or no - cost veterinary services and spay / neuter surgery to disadvantaged pet owners, enabling pets to remain as cherished family members rather than face abandonment and preventing the birth of unwanted litters.

We currently do not, and have not, accepted owner surrendered dogs simply because we believe that in most cases, an owner surrendered dog has more time than a dog in their 11th hour in a shelter.

We had a brand new, beautiful facility, and within the first 60 days, we realized we had more than 50 dogs and 50 cats in the shelter and an owner - surrender waiting list of more than 150 dogs and 175 cats.

Animal Control officers also helped a couple dozen owners evacuate their horses to locations other than the shelters.

Less than 2 % of cats entering shelters were reunited with their owners, and only 53 % of lost cats were ever found.

Many times, pet owners find their cat companions in places other than a shelter, so you will very likely be able to find a new home for your cat by advertising in these ways: ~ Word of Mouth: Ask friends and relatives if they know anyone interested in adopting a cat or if they are looking for a kitty themselves.

Did you know that a recent survey of animal shelters found that cats brought in NOT microchipped have a less than 4 % chance of being returned to their owner, but a cat that HAS been microchipped and then ends up at a shelter has almost a 100 % chance of being returned home?

Because cats are statistically far less likely to be taken to the veterinarian than dogs are, and cats who aren't taken to the veterinarian are also more likely to be surrendered to a shelter, the CATalyist Council has also created the CATalyst Connection, a project seeking to strengthen the relationships between animal shelters, private practice veterinarians and pet owners.

Some are pets surrendered by their owners who can no longer care for them, while others are found roaming as strays... Some are never adopted... It is projected that more than 600,000 homeless cats in Canadian shelters did not find new homes in 2011.

Of the six to eight million cats and dogs who find their way into shelters nationwide each year, less than 2 percent of cats are ever reunited with their owners.

Of those, 969 thousand are lucky enough to be reunited with their owners, 778 thousand are transferred, many to different rescues and shelters to help meet demand in other areas and, because they are doing such a good job more of their lives are being saved than ever before, with 776 thousand being put down compared to millions a few decades ago.

She said when she started working with Project Pet as a volunteer 9 years ago, «I was shocked to learn that we as a community had 23,000 pets abandoned by their owners every year, euthanized over 19,000 of them and spent more than $ 3 million in taxes to run the local municipal shelters.

Owners who can no longer care for their dog may also initiate contact, preferring to surrender the dog to a rescue group rather than a shelter.

A 2009 study (Lord et al, JAVMA, July 15, 2009) of stray animals at shelters showed microchipped dogs were more than twice as likely to be returned to their owners (52.2 percent for chipped vs 21.9 percent for unchipped dogs) and microchipped cats were 20 times more likely to be returned (38.5 percent for chipped vs 1.8 percent for unchipped).

(Unanticipated problems may occur because owners sometimes omit information when they surrender an animal, and of course we have no information on animals that come in as strays other than what we observe at the Shelter.)

A 2009 AVMA study evaluating «more than 7,700 stray animals at animal shelters showed that dogs without microchips were returned to their owners 21.9 % of the time, whereas microchipped dogs were returned to their owners 52.2 % of the time.

Of the animals that do make it a shelter, less than 15 % are reunited with their owners.

The problem is that there are so many breeding indiscriminately that we have millions sitting in shelters waiting to die a slow, agonizing death, including thousands of purebred dogs who are victims of the breeding industry, which produces many more dogs than there are owners willing to pay high prices for a dog.

«We don't want dogs produced by accident to be the only dogs of the future» - exactly why pet owners should spay and neuter, because more and more people are becoming aware of the problem of homeless animals and are adopting from shelters rather than contributing to an industry that is part of the problem.

Whether they are forced to surrender their dog due to a change in living circumstances such as a lost job or foreclosure, or because a member of the family finds out they are allergic, or even if it is discovered that the dog is not a good match for their lifestyle, many dog owners would rather give up their dog to a good rescue organization than to a shelter where the dog may be euthanized.

We also found that biting behavior was rarer in the shelter cats than would be expected based on owner reports for reasons of surrender on average to a shelter (p < 0.001).

The ASPCA commissioned a poll * in 2012 which revealed that pet owners who adopted their dogs from shelters are more likely to be happy with their experience than those owners who purchased their dogs from pet stores.

According to the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP), less than 5 percent of lost cats are reunited with their owners once they are taken into a shelter.