Sentences with phrase «than the shelter environment»

Often a foster home rather than a shelter environment helps give many of these animals a second chance at the life they deserve!

If you'd like more specifics about a potential pet, think about looking into adopting through a rescue group, which may be able to give you a much clearer picture of how an animal behaves and interacts in a setting other than a shelter environment.

Not exact matches

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

If you wait until part way through the year to contribute, say July, then your $ 5,500 will be sitting in a fully taxable environment for 7 months of the year, rather than in a tax shelter.

More than half of all dogs and cats in shelters were received as strays, but that doesn't mean by any stretch they're automatically aggressive, come from abusive environments, or have medical challenges.

Jill Marie O'Brien, who developed the game below, has worked in the shelter environment for more than 14 years and said she's seen dogs «with a multitude of behavioral and emotional challenges overcome or at the least improve in noticeable ways after starting training.»

She has lived in a shelter environment for more than a year.

Additionally, animals may behave and react differently to stimuli in shelter environments than in a home environment.

While your home is ultimately a better environment than the cattery at the shelter, your cat is not ready to see all of it right away.

What traditionally may be called hospice care, Lizzy's Fund considers this care as a success when an animal is loved, cared for, and its end of life process is accompanied by a loving environment rather than languishing in a shelter.

The link between stress and disease in cats is well - established, and it's hard to imagine a more stressful environment for a cat than an animal shelter.

From neonatal kittens, puppies with ringworm, or pets with injuries and medical conditions — to small companion pets like rabbits and rats, and adult dogs and cats needing an environment other than the shelter — hundreds of foster families opened their hearts and homes to thousands of pets from our shelter this past year.

Foster homes also provide homeless animals with a less stressful, more peaceful environment than a shelter.

The additional level of exposure that Nine Lives offers our feline friends has helped get some of our most social cats adopted into loving homes more quickly than they would if they were in our shelter environment.

Although every dog adopted out from Dogs XL has undergone temperament testing to assure that they are friendly toward people, dogs sometimes respond differently in the shelter than in a home environment.

Often there are more animals than that, so Pet Allies has foster homes that help by working with pets too young to be adopted, pets suffering from diseases, pets recovering from surgery, pets that are stressed in the shelter environment, and pets that there are no room for at the shelter.

Richard has overseen more than 30,000 surgical procedures and has been responsible for over 50,000 animals through shelter programs while creating a first - class state of the art environment designed around the animals» needs with an emphasis on quality.

Sarcoptic mange is common in unsanitary environments, such as dogs that come from puppy mills, pet stores, less than ideal animal shelters and dog pounds.

CAS volunteer Cindy Branscome shares, «For an animal lover, there's nothing better than seeing a dog go from a stressful shelter environment to a loving home with a comfy, warm couch.»

In addition to showcasing adoptable dogs in a warmer environment than most shelters offer, the cafe will allow Los Angeles residents who can't have dogs to get a doggy fix — thereby soothing nerves frazzled by traffic jams and making workday stresses disappear.

Even more important than the startling decline in shelter intake was the decline in homeless, free - roaming dogs in the environment.

It's because a lot of the shelters with high euthanasia rates have regional overpopulation, where these particular shelters experience a higher population than the environment can sustain.

A senior dog who lives in a home environment rather than a shelter while he is waiting for permanent placement will inevitably make a better transition to his new home and family, and therefore decrease the chances that he will be displaced again.

The animals heal faster when in a calm, home environment than they do in the noisy, cold, busy shelter.

More often than not, severe cases are seen in cats that have recently been in multiple - cat environments, such as shelters.

Overall foster homes are more likely to be closer to a shelter environment than they are to a «regular» home.

However, keep in mind, the shelter environment is stressful and your pet may react quite differently than they have in a home environment.

Shelter veterinarians are at high risk for developing depression, and many spay - neuter veterinarians possess demographic risk factors that may place them at greater risk than other veterinarians for experiencing depression, burnout, compassion fatigue, or suicidal ideation.1 Per the Association of Shelter Veterinarians» 2016 Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay - Neuter Programs, workplaces should strive to create a safe, supportive environment in which mental health issues are not stigmatized.

This facility is actually a loving home environment for dogs (usually one, no more than three at a time) who have come from local shelters and who need to find permanent homes.

Animals who are recovering from surgery, require medical treatment, and others with special needs recuperate better in a loving home than in a stressful shelter environment.

But it's clear that dogs like Foxy show better on the outside at adoption events than in the shelter environment.

Cats are more stressed in a shelter environment than other pets so they more likely to appear angry or frightened, all of which impacts their adoptability.

A Place for Us — South Egremont, MA This facility is actually a loving home environment for dogs (usually one, no more than three at a time) who have come from local shelters and who need to find permanent homes.

We felt strongly that being home in their familiar environment would be far less stressful for them than encountering the many strangers along with the din of their barking dogs and nervous cats at a shelter.

Auerbach feels that it is much safer for everyone concerned to have dogs out of the shelter and in a normal home environment than to house them in a shelter where their behavior will deteriorate.

They are groups that are both more medically and behaviorally fragile and will thrive far better in a home environment than in the shelter.

By opening your heart — and your home — for as little as a few weeks, you can help to save the lives of pets who are underage, sick or injured that need a quiet, stress - free environment and a little more TLC than can be provided in a shelter environment.

The individual love and care of a foster parent gives pets the opportunity to flourish in a home, rather than in a shelter environment.

Keyria Lockheart, a volunteer at the Last Hope Cat Kingdom says that, «I have had many tell me they love shelter animals more than non-shelter because they seem to appreciate being out of the environment and into a loving home.»

To be considered for an RTF program, the cat must be unowned, ineligible or unlikely to be successful in an adoption program (with very rare exceptions, social cats admitted to animal shelters should be routed into adoption programs that demonstrate a high placement rate rather than RTF programs), be able to be returned to the location where found, and appear to have been thriving in their previous environment without known threats to their safety.

This is nothing less than a declaration of war on feral cats, scared dogs, or any animal that found themselves scared and confused upon being brought into the chaotic shelter environment — or any animal they simply wanted to find a flimsy excuse to kill.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Rather than loudly imposing itself upon its environment, this container of art seems to allow its environment to inform it, reflecting and giving primacy to what is there already, while its understated interior seems to shelter something unexpected, waiting to be discovered.

According to parental reports, children in host families showed lower rates of stress related signs than those living in sheltered environments.