Sentences with phrase «traditional shelters»

Thirty to 60 percent of lost pets in traditional shelters are euthanized because they can not be properly identified and returned to their owner.

Most often, these organizations obtain their animal populations by transferring from traditional shelters or municipal facilities — in other words, they usually do not take animals surrendered directly from the public.

As with traditional shelters, rescue groups are privately funded through donations, private sector grants, and adoption fees.

Other people go only to adoption guarantee shelters because traditional shelters make them feel guilty and depressed.

It has been an effective «wedge» program to get traditional shelters started in the direction of No Kill.

Traditional shelter leaders and workers in the 1990s were also hurt and offended by the term «No Kill,» which they thought was a back - handed way of calling them killers.

Traditional shelters also deliver other services to their communities — including humane education programs, temporary housing for emergencies, and natural disaster assistance.

Today's blog looks at three new concepts that are creating common ground between traditional shelters and No Kill.

In the past, simply being too sick or too young, or not knowing manners was reason enough for pets to be killed in traditional shelters.

Rescue groups take in animals from traditional shelters or municipal facilities.

Most traditional shelter directors these days seem to be interested in shelter reform, but they may be reluctant to take advice from No Kill advocates who do not work or volunteer at the shelter and have little hands - on shelter experience.

Unlike traditional shelters that euthanize their animals due to space constraints, this shelter is no kill.

Even so, demand for our services has increased exponentially as the community grows disillusioned with the ineffective and costly approaches employed by traditional shelters and rescues.

Shelter leaders in Denver tended to abjure the «No Kill» term because they felt it insulted workers at traditional shelters, but they were pioneers in using programs that we think of today as No Kill (the hideous pit bull bans in the city of Denver and some adjoining areas are a tragic exception).

These trends suggest that fundamental differences between the species and their role in our society may lead traditional sheltering programs to be less successful when applied to cats than to dogs.

Part 1: Dr. Kate Hurley examines the assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compares them to the most recent evidence - based information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an unsocialized cat taken into a shelter.

Ringworm is a treatable fungus infection similar to athlete's foot, but in many traditional shelters, kittens with ringworm are immediately killed because it is contagious to both animals and people.

In this webcast, Dr. Hurley will examine assumptions underlying traditional sheltering practices and compare them to the most recent evidence - based information regarding the health and behavior impacts of stress on sheltered cats and the statistical likelihood of a live outcome for an unsocialized cat taken into a shelter.

-- Most traditional shelters would «cull» the shelter by euthanizing any animal that is exposed to a contagious illness rather than give them time to fight off the disease and see who breaks with illness.

C&S: What do you think of the mayor's plan to close hotels and apartments used to house the homeless and build more traditional shelters near where people are becoming homeless?

If your local animal control agency or traditional shelter refuses to even discuss the possibility of participating in a Maddie's Fund grant, it's unlikely you'll be able to proceed.

Include traditional shelters, animal control agencies, rescue organizations, breed or feral cat rescue groups, shelter auxiliaries, the veterinary medical association, private veterinary hospitals, spay / neuter clinics, etc. 3.

Like traditional sheltering programs, TNR programs may not be of sufficient scale to impact the overall population.

The nursery specializes in caring for orphaned kittens, a pet population that typically faces euthanasia in traditional shelters because of the constant care and frequent feeding they need.

Given the major role played by community cats, some of the assumptions on which traditional sheltering programs are based — for example, that stray cats are lost pets with an owner looking for them, or that unowned cats can not remain at large without creating a substantial hazard to themselves or others — apply relatively well to dogs but perhaps less so to cats.

But to highlight the centennial would be an exercise in elevating form over substance compared to the real celebration: the first traditional shelter that serves as an animal control agency that takes in every stray animal and has not killed a single healthy animal, feral cat, or sick or injured treatable animal since June 11, 2001.

The bottom line,» says Hurley, «[is that] traditional sheltering is not an effective tool to eliminate or protect community cat populations.»

Limited Resources: Additionally, the resources like rescue and foster networks that exist for dogs outside of traditional shelters simply do not exist to the same degree for cats.

RTF is another program that strongly appeals to traditional shelter directors, and allows them to start on the road to No Kill.

Unlike traditional shelters, Wags and Whiskers Pet Rescue does not keep dogs and cats in our facility.

We honor and respect the work being done on the front lines by traditional shelters and dog control facilities.

With her business background, Paula developed a solutions - based plan to address the plight of homeless pets and raise public awareness on the staggering number of pets that were being killed in silence at traditional shelters.

We rescue senior dogs and cats from traditional shelters.

But, the drawback in this model of traditional sheltering is that Limited Admissions shelters can not handle all animals in need, and must turn some away.

In one of the most creative scams ever perpetrated on the American public, many of these largely unregulated, retail - style rescues and shelters have managed to gain a competitive market advantage over well - bred and socialized dogs and regulated breeders as well as many traditional shelters and animal control agencies by trading in dogs whose health, temperament and origin are often unknown and whose prior treatment and ultimate sale are neither regulated nor warranted.

Sponsoring innovative programs to help cats in traditional shelters in our county, as well as community cats who live outdoors

Thankfully, due in large part to the advent of evidence - based shelter medicine research and practices, shelters no longer have to rely on word - of - mouth transfer of «traditional shelter practice.»

He said also that the city's Safe Haven program, with hundreds of beds in faith - based organizations, is an alternative to traditional shelters.

Just one is a traditional shelter for homeless families with the greatest need.

The participants at the next meeting will probably be your core collaboration of rescue organizations, traditional shelters, animal control facilities and private practicing veterinarians.

Maddie's Fund grants are dependent upon the cooperation of all traditional shelters and animal control agencies.

For example, Maddie's Fund will support rescue organizations linked in community - wide collaborations with private veterinary practitioners, traditional shelters, and animal control agencies.

What these terms are describing is how a traditional shelter manages its population.

Traditional shelters can vary in animal capacity depending on their resources — with the smallest shelters handling 500 animals and the largest handling more than 15,000.

Fur Angels Animal Sanctuary uses foster homes instead of a traditional shelter.

Mostly working with special needs animals that would be euthanized in traditional shelters, Rude Ranch has been providing them with veterinary care, rehabilitation and offering them sanctuary until they are placed in a permanent home.

February 1, 2008 One hundred and ninety five rescue groups, traditional shelters, animal control agencies and adoption guarantee shelters described all manner of methods for re-homing elderly, disfigured, blind, deaf, unattractive and shy pets as well as dogs and cats with medical and behavioral problems in the Maddie's Fund / Petfinder.

In the last few years, the idea that traditional shelters are fundamentally at odds with No Kill shelters has been evaporating.