Sentences with phrase «work at no kill shelters»

I work at a no kill shelter and everyone wants us to do things «out of the kindness of our hearts.»

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From the very beginning, we were determined to prove that a NO - KILL Shelter could work in the Mississippi Delta because we felt so strongly that the homeless and hurting animals of our community deserved a chance at life.

We provide funding to train officials for improved enforcement of laws; help local partner groups on the ground with veterinary and shelter care for confiscated animals; raise global awareness of the suffering involved in illegal dog theft, transport and slaughter, including at China's annual Dog Meat Festival in Yulin; expose the horror of subterranean killing pits in Nagaland in India; and work with dog meat farmers in South Korea to transition them to more humane ways of making a living.

Due to a higher number of dogs surrendered during the summer months, we see an uptick in the percent killed during that time, but the steady decline in that percentage tells us the hard work of Saving Carson Shelter Dogs, the networkers, all of you who share, pledge, tag, and donate, and Captain Care Intervention ALL working together are making a HUGE difference to the lives saved at the Carson Shelter.

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., founded in 2002 and powered by Maddie's Fund ®, The Pet Rescue Foundation, with support from the ASPCA, is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.

«This type of facility is critical for helping underserved communities keep their pets, reducing shelter intake and unnecessary euthanasia, and helping us work toward a no - kill nation,» said Shelly Thompson, Director of Grants at Maddie's Fund.

At the core of Best Friends» work is the dream that one day animals will no longer be killed in America's shelters.

The Strut Your Mutt at the Sanctuary will also feature some members of the No - Kill Utah (NKUT) Coalition, a group of passionate individuals, city shelters and animal welfare organizations working together to end the killing of dogs and cats in Utah shelters by 2019.

At the same time, when my organization, the No Kill Advocacy Center, works with activists nationwide to pass legislation to add more protections, such as making it illegal for shelters to kill animals when rescue groups are willing to save them, these groups fight us, as HSUS has done in Minnesota and Best Friends did in New YKill Advocacy Center, works with activists nationwide to pass legislation to add more protections, such as making it illegal for shelters to kill animals when rescue groups are willing to save them, these groups fight us, as HSUS has done in Minnesota and Best Friends did in New Ykill animals when rescue groups are willing to save them, these groups fight us, as HSUS has done in Minnesota and Best Friends did in New York.

They work selflessly at pulling cats out from high kill shelters and giving them a second chance.

About the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals ® The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., founded in 2002 and powered by Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation, with support from the ASPCA, is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of New York City (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.

Almost anyone who works with a rescue group or at a shelter can give you the grim statistics; the number of animals bought into the shelter every day and the number of animals that must be killed every month.

And while much work remains to be done, and more lives need to be saved, we're inspired by our success in reducing the killing of healthy and treatable dogs and cats at AC&C shelters for the sixth year in a row.

Phase two: time well spent in high school volunteering at an animal shelter, then on to full time work with a veterinary hospital, all the while helping to pull and re-home dogs from high - kill shelters in southern California.

Currently, JARR and WCAL and its president, Pam Ingalls, are collaborating on a number of animal advocacy issues, including the need to spay and neuter all cats and dogs, and working with officials at the Napa County Animal Shelter to reduce its kill rate to zero.

Although LifeLine has reached no - kill status at both our county shelters, we have not crossed the finish line, and we must work hard to remain no - kill.

About the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals ® The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters working with Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.

At the cat shelter where I work, ferals Kim, Jade and Gem (littermates) did not hunt as a group but they frequently shared their kills.

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.

has been advocating for and doing the work of saving lives at the shelter that were destined to be killed.

North Texas now has at least seven shelters that have achieved No - Kill or are working toward it.

Dr. Rodriguez previously completed a Bachelor's of Science from Cornell University in 2011, and worked as a kennel technician and an adoption counselor at a large no - kill animal shelter in south Texas prior to attending vet school.

In 2015, Lorian started volunteering at Austin Animal Center, fell in love with the animals and people at the shelter, and, inspired by the No Kill commitment, was determined to make shelter work a part of her career.

At Best Friends volunteers and staff are hard at work daily to find animals in high - kill shelters and rescue them for the chance at finding them a forever homAt Best Friends volunteers and staff are hard at work daily to find animals in high - kill shelters and rescue them for the chance at finding them a forever homat work daily to find animals in high - kill shelters and rescue them for the chance at finding them a forever homat finding them a forever home!

Despite the fact that HSUS had worked to kill similar bills in Texas, New York, Florida, and elsewhere, I was more optimistic about shelter reform legislation succeeding in Minnesota because two HSUS representatives — a Board member and Jennifer Fearing, the person in charge of sheltering policies for HSUS — personally assured me at a meeting in San Francisco just over a month ago that the days of HSUS claiming «neutrality» (a sham in and of itself given it benefits the status quo) but then working to kill shelter reform legislation were over.

Keep in mind that puppies are a lot of work and that there are hundreds of thousands of well behaved adult dogs being killed at our shelters every day that might be a better choice for your family's pet.

I don't want to say much about this as I could go on and on here, but I worked at an SPCA that was also considered a low - kill shelter (which is just something based on faulty statistics).

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc., founded in 2002, is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters that is working with Animal Care & Control of New York City (AC&C) to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at AC&C shelters.

It's hard to know how to respond to the letter written by Napa County Public Works Director Steve Lederer («No - kill shelter initiative discussed,» March 31) which criticizes an initiative now being circulated that would mandate changes at the county animal shelter.

A new director might expect that rescuers will automatically support a No Kill effort, but rescuers who are not familiar with how No Kill actually works and who have no experience with innovative programs may balk at what we in the shelter world know are lifesaving techniques.

Because I work at an animal rights organization that has a nearly 60 - year history working to eliminate pet overpopulation and systemic shelter killing, the choice to adopt isn't a choice at all: I see it as my responsibility — a moral imperative.

NEWS RELEASE Robideaux Pushes for «No - Kill» Policy at the Lafayette Animal Shelter Posted: 1/13/2016 6:00 PM Parish to Work to Achieve No - Kill Status by 2020.

The no - kill movement officially started in San Francisco in 1989 under the leadership of Richard Avanzino at the San Francisco SPCA, who made the critical decision to relinquish the shelter's contract for animal control and instead work with the city's municipal animal control agency in an effort to end the killing of adoptable animals.