Sentences with phrase «state animal pounds»

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The United States raises 2,000 pounds of cereal grain per person per year; of that total, 150 pounds is used for human consumption, while 1,850 pounds is fed to animals to produce meat, eggs and dairy products.

But in the United States, nearly 25 million pounds of antibiotics per year, up from 16 million in the mid 1980s, are given to healthy animals for agriculture purposes, according to a 2000 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

An estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States — more than 24 million pounds every year — are used on farms, mostly in animal feed.

Many animals in shelters and pounds are frightened and a little overwhelmed and may exhibit some minor behavioral problems due to their stressed state.

Frank Kirk, an animal control official, asked the Seminole County state attorney's office to determine whether police officers acted properly when they shot a 15 - foot, 200 - pound python found lurking in a Winter Springs neighborhood.

The Tale of the Road Hog began last week after several motorists reported seeing a pig along Maitland Boulevard and State Road 434 in Altamonte Springs.But the jig was up about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, when the 30 - pound pet walked up to an animal control officers scouring the area.Stray pigs, cows and horses are not unusual in Central Florida.

Listen to Allie's interview about the current state of pound seizure with Dancing Dog Blog / Animal Cafe (October 16, 2016)

If your state has laws that do not benefit shelter animals (such as allowing gas chambers, pound seizure, or have do not promote adoptions), contact one of these to offer your help in passing / supporting better legislation: HSUS State Director, ASPCA regional director, a large animal shelter in your state that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislastate has laws that do not benefit shelter animals (such as allowing gas chambers, pound seizure, or have do not promote adoptions), contact one of these to offer your help in passing / supporting better legislation: HSUS State Director, ASPCA regional director, a large animal shelter in your state that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislaState Director, ASPCA regional director, a large animal shelter in your state that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislastate that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislation.

NATIONWIDE & WORLDWIDE - CATS / DOGS ALL BREEDS Petfinder.org - rescues, spca's and pounds 1 -800-SAVE-A-PET - rescue groups by Zip Code PETS911 - Local rescues and shelters by zip code Creatures.com - worldwide Creatures - state by state Robin's FYI - rescues and pounds, state by state Adopapet.com - worldwide directory Adoptapet.com - national directories Hugs for Homeless Animals - worldwide Lairds Rescue Breed Rescue List - nationwide - many outdated

Prior to our involvement, the city facility was a pound, holding stray animals for the state mandated (4) days and if the animals were not claimed, they were euthanized.

570 WKBN American Animal Hospital Association American Association of Equine Practitioners Animal Charity of Youngstown Animal Poison Control Center Animal Saftey is Fun Animal Welfare League Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement Columbiana County Dog Pound Companion Animal Parasite Council Delta Society Equine Nutrition Center Girard, Ohio GLC Direct Good News Now Healty Pet.com Mahoning County Kennel Naming Your Kitten Naming You Puppy Ohio 4 - H Ohio's Animal Shelters Ohio Wildlife Center Ohio State College of Veterinarian Medicine Ohio Veterinary Medical Association Petfinder.com PetLink PetsOhio.com (Ohio PEet License Plates) PetsWelcome.com (Lodge listings that accept pets) Shambala Preserve Spay USA Stolen Horse International The Animal Rescue Site The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium The Horse.com The Pet FBI (Pets Found by the Internet) Western Farm Pet Crematory and Cemetery

When feed needs can not be met via vehicle or boat for animals marooned by floodwaters, the Texas Army National Guard has flown in and air dropped more than 210,000 pounds of hay, generously donated by individuals across the state and nation.

«They don't know what it is in them that makes this happen, but three - quarters of a pound of grapes can cause very significant toxicity in a dog,» said Portland, Ore. - based veterinarian Jeffrey S. Klausner, chief medical officer of Banfield Pet Hospital, the largest animal hospital in the world with 770 clinics in 41 states.

By 1991, with James in charge, SCAC had cut out the middleman, «illegally selling dogs from its animal shelter to research facilities for $ 27 over the state - imposed price,» bringing in perhaps as much as $ 16,000 in pound seizure fees.

She drafted and analyzed federal and state legislation to protect animals and children, including being the author of the 2009 - 10 legislative bill to ban pound seizure in Michigan (which passed the House and ran out of time in Senate) and a bill to ban gas chambers in Michigan shelters.

Only a handful of states require pounds and shelters to report the fates of the animals they take into custody.

Animal nonprofits, research veterinarians, and other experts agree: killing in pounds and shelters is the leading cause of death of all cats in the United States.

That means only two states, Minnesota and Oklahoma, still require pound seizure, the practice of requiring public shelters to sell or provide animals for research.

There is obviously an abundance of cats and dogs in the United States these days and pet shelters and pounds are overrun with animals they can not possibly take care of.

The pound's report to the state of Virginia states that no animals at all were transferred to rescue in 2012.

We actively campaign to: - Stop the commercialisation of our native wildlife, with present emphasis on the Kangaroo - Ban the use of 1080 poison - Ban the use of the steel jaw traps in Australia (we succeeded in having this banned in NSW and ACT in 1997)- Ban recreational hunting of all animals in NSW state forests and National Parks - Implement a no - kill policy in pounds and shelters to stop the killing of thousands of healthy cats and dogs every year - Lobby NSW councils to provide low cost desexing programs for low income carers - Abolish the farming of the Asiatic «Moon» bears in China cruelly milked for their bile - Abolish vivisection and the fur industry - Ban circuses with animals - Protect Australia's dingo by lobbying our government to recognise and protect it as a vulnerable species

«Our aim is no longer to serve as a simple pound for municipalities but to work with them to ensure citizens are educated and encouraged in responsible pet ownership as well as to implement more humane animal services» states Alanna Devine.

To make matters worse — pounds are in such a poor state that people looking to welcome a dog or cat into their family avoid them, preferring to go to pet shops in nice areas where they will pay a lot of money for purebred animals.

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As previously stated, an animal shelter can be your local pound and be government - owned but not all shelters are funded by tax - payer money.

(b) No person shall spay or neuter any dog or cat for or on behalf of a pound or animal shelter unless such person is a licensed veterinarian or a student currently enrolled in the college of veterinary medicine, Kansas state university, who has completed at least two years of study in the veterinary medical curriculum and is participating in a spay or neuter program and as part of the curriculum under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

Local communities, pounds and shelters are left to handle the growing problems of unwanted, surrendered and abandoned animals with no or limited State financial assistance, and little or no time for addressing the root of the problem.

(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, a pet shop operator may obtain a dog or cat for resale or sell or offer for sale any dog or cat obtained from: (1) a person that sells dogs only he or she has produced and raised and who is not required to be licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture, (2) a publicly operated pound or a private non-profit humane society or rescue, or (3) an animal adoption event conducted by a pound or humane society.

Local animal pounds in Minnesota handle many of the pet - related issues within our State.

State Fish and Wildlife wardens responded to the scene and helped shepherd the animal — believed to weigh more than 500 pounds — back toward the tidal waters.