Sentences with phrase «year at animal shelters»

But unlike more than 13,000 unwanted pets killed every year at animal shelters in the county, this puppy will probably find its way into a more loving home.

She has worked with animals and their owners for over ten years at animal shelters, retail jobs, and in the office.

«Nearly 3,000 canines alone were euthanized last year at the animal shelter on Pasedana in Flint.æ

Thomas has worked 11 years at the Animal Shelter and is the current senior animal control officer.

PETA, considered by many to be the highest - profile animal rights group in the country, kills an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter here.

Not exact matches

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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the leading non-profit devoted to animal welfare, reports that in the 1970s American shelters euthanized between 12 and 20 million cats and dogs every year at a time when there were 67 million pets in U.S. homes.

While volunteering at the local animal shelter, she meets Claire, known as Peekay (preacher's kid), who becomes her first friend, and as a result, Alex begins to participate in senior - year activities.

HST President Gina Gardner then took the floor and said that their plans are to now focus their many years of experience on those animals that are in the most critical need of saving, those at the City Shelter.

Officer Steve Harris, field supervisor at Tulsa Animal Welfare has worked in animal sheltering for 12 Animal Welfare has worked in animal sheltering for 12 animal sheltering for 12 years.

Now imagine that every seat at Petco Park was filled with an animal — that's the number of homeless animals that end up in shelters each year in San Diego County.

However, because of Malaski's traumatic past, daily activities such as afternoon walks, mealtimes, and even weekly showers were challenging for the experienced handler, who has been working at the animal shelter for the last 27 years.

TRACY: I've volunteered my service to animals in Utah for over 15 years, at the Salt Lake County Animal shelter and Best Friends Animal Society.

We started our business of bio-based waste bags at the beginning of the year here in SD and are in 17 stores here in San Diego and have the SD Humane Society and other animal shelters as our cause, with a large portion of every sale going to help animals in need.

He volunteered at animal shelters for over eight years before finally founding Voices for Animals (VFA) in 2010.

I have been photographing animals at the Tulsa Animal Shelter for TulsaPets Magazine for about two years with the specific goal of helping to increase adoptions.

About 6,400 animals were destroyed at Seminole County's animal shelter last year, county officials said.

After many years of doing a little bit of everything, including both equine and small animal private practice, Dr. Candie finally found her niche in shelter medicine and absolutely loves her job at CAT.

Derek and his mom, Susan Walker, volunteer at the shelter twice a week and help socialize shelter animals like Miss Kitty, a 2 - year - old tuxedo cat who needs a home.

Rock & Rawhide, a non-profit organization that provides distraction therapy with toys, blankets, bones, and other comforting items to help increase adoptions, again this year collected pet toys and clean linens for the animals at Animal Care & Control of NYC, and other shelters.

One of my clients» indoor cats escaped and turned up four years later at the local animal shelter, and was saved from euthanasia due to the presence of a microchip!»

Kelsey Bertamus is a third year veterinary student at the University of Minnesota with special interests in small animal medicine and nutrition, specifically as it applies to shelter medicine.

Upon graduation with my DVM my focus changed from wildlife medicine to shelter medicine after spending a year at Young Williams Animal Center in Knoxville under the mentorship of Drs. Becky DeBolt and Lisa Chassy.

In addition to implementing policies and procedures designed to improve animal health at ASC, Dr. Reeves was tasked with creating a new high - volume, high - quality surgical sterilization program, as well as several outreach programs, including: Free Animal Rabies Vaccination Clinics, Low - Cost Animal Microchip Identification Clinics, and a veterinary student externship program, designed to expose third and fourth year veterinary students to shelter medicine princanimal health at ASC, Dr. Reeves was tasked with creating a new high - volume, high - quality surgical sterilization program, as well as several outreach programs, including: Free Animal Rabies Vaccination Clinics, Low - Cost Animal Microchip Identification Clinics, and a veterinary student externship program, designed to expose third and fourth year veterinary students to shelter medicine princAnimal Rabies Vaccination Clinics, Low - Cost Animal Microchip Identification Clinics, and a veterinary student externship program, designed to expose third and fourth year veterinary students to shelter medicine princAnimal Microchip Identification Clinics, and a veterinary student externship program, designed to expose third and fourth year veterinary students to shelter medicine principals.

The ordinance was aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating the thousands of euthanizations conducted in Los Angeles» animal shelters every year.

Every dog that arrives at the shelter, which places 6,000 animals a year, is evaluated for adoptability, Blair said.

Greg Miller has more than 15 years of experience utilizing geographic analysis to explore a wide range of topics, from the most at - risk shelter animals and community medicine clients to area demographics.

For the past four years, at the County's request, it has been CHS» pleasure to provide medical care, food, enrichment, and shelter to our county's animals until they could be reconnected with their owners; sadly, that portion of the shelter program will again be managed by the Sheriff's department and Animal Control.

Dumped at the Miami Dade animal services kill shelter 12 and 14 years of age.

An experienced animal trainer who volunteers at local shelters, Davidson has spent years working with abandoned cats and dogs, as well as doing regular photo shoots for the Oregon Zoo.

Her introduction to the shelter field occurred at the age of 15 as a volunteer at the Montgomery County Humane Society in Rockville Maryland and after 17 years in the veterinary field she felt a desire to give back to her community by volunteering at the Frederick County Animal Control & Adoption Center (FCAC).

For the first time in the lives of these specials animals (at least those who've lived at the shelter for years), they get to run and play with toys that they have not been able to play with in their small kennel runs.

Audrey Dietzel even hosted her eighth birthday at the shelter last year and did the same on her ninth birthday, donating all of her cash gifts to the animals.

Homeless dogs at Colorado's Foothills Animal Shelter were the recipients of wonderful Christmas gifts this year thanks to a new inmate program through the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Over the years, she has worked with rescue groups and has volunteered at several animal shelters but when her canine family grew to six large dogs, she decided it was time to get a real job to support her addiction.

FILE - In this Dec. 18 photo provided by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ASPCA, shows Melissa Morgan, a kennel attendant and adoption counselor holding Josie, a terrier / poodle mix, about 4 - 5 years old arriving at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison, N.J. Josie was one of the last of 45 Tennessee dogs to be adopted, after the dogs were rounded up at overcrowded shelters in Tennessee and brought to St. Hubert's, which had enough open kennels for all the dogs.

Reva Laituri has been a volunteer at Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS) for 25 years, and has served on the Board of Directors for 17 years, the last five as president.

Veterinary technicians will be celebrating NVTW in a variety of ways: Technicians will volunteer at shelters, organize fundraisers as many organizations are still collecting funds to offset the expenses they incurred helping animals and their owners affected by the hurricanes last year.

Having volunteered for over 20 years in animal rescue, I had become increasingly frustrated by the senseless killing that happens each year at shelters.

With a passion for the well - being of feral cats, she taught a TNR and shelter building workshop at All About Animals monthly for over two years.

Volunteered at the ASPCA shelter in New York City for six years and at Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue, assisting with behavior modification and answering adopters» behavioral questions

There are millions of loving animals waiting right now at a shelter near you for their happy ending (over 1.5 million dogs and cats are euthanized in U.S. shelters every year because they don't have a home, so this is more important than ever!).

American Humane Association is challenging 1 million people to take the Kindness 100 Pledge online at www.Kindness100.org to protect and better the lives of animals in four distinct areas, including 10 billion farm animals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation canimals in four distinct areas, including 10 billion farm animals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation canimals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation canimals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation cAnimals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers.

possibly door handle or two if needed, but I have to admit, this is beyond my Animal Hospital and shelter experience, and yes, I agree no one should have to wait years but were about at 5 now.

At least 30 nonprofit «no kill» animal shelters and rescues in California have been successfully prosecuted for mass neglect since the Hayden Act took effect, some of them only after they «rescued» hundreds of animals over many years» time.

Five years after that, in 1994, the SF / SPCA and SF / DACC signed the Adoption Pact, under which the SF / SPCA agreed to accept any healthy and behaviorally sound dog or cat whose holding time had expired at the animal control shelter.

I volunteered at a horrific» shelter» where I lost my mind for a short while in the 90's... and I co directed Rosie Animal Adoption for it's first five years of existence for which I am forever thankful.

Employees and animals at the Orlando Humane Society have two reasons to celebrate: The agency is breaking ground on a new shelter and is marking its 50th year of service to pets and people.

However, at large public shelters in the southern climes like the Aiken County Animal Shelter, intake skyrockets during the spring and summer months every year, creating the same strain on resources, funds and manpower as an extraordinary weather event.

Domino is a 3 year old male, black and white American Staffordshire Bull Terrier who was found as a stray on October 24, 2013 and is now at the West Los Angeles Animal Shelter.