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Broward County Animal Services, an open-admission shelter, did not have the resources the dog needed to overcome her numerous ailments, so the Frenchie was placed on the shelter's euthanasia list.
Ashland County commissioners had a full house at their meeting Thursday when residents and volunteers spoke out against the county dog shelter's euthanasia policy that went into effect Jan. 16.
The bill would have required animal shelters to provide 72 hours online notice that an animal is set to be killed. AB 595 met opposition from Tucker’s California Animal Welfare Association.
Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons for euthanasia include incurable (and especially painful) conditions or diseases, [ 1 ] lack of resources to continue supporting the animal, or laboratory test procedures.
[1] [2] Euthanasia numbers have declined since the 1970s, when U.S. shelters euthanized an estimated 12 to 20 million animals. [3] Most humane societies, animal shelters and rescue groups urge animal caregivers to have their animals spayed or neutered to prevent the births of unwanted and accidental litters that could contribute to this dynamic ...
Animal welfare consultant Kristen Hassen, whose firm was recently hired to assess the shelters, has described the higher euthanasia rates among dogs as an “over-correction” by the department.
A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals based on time limits or capacity, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals, animals suffering poor quality of life, or those considered dangerous to public safety. Some no-kill shelters will commit to not killing any animals at all, under any ...
Some Fort Worth leaders are calling on the public help solve the overcrowding and high euthanasia rates at the city-run animal shelters. But several volunteers and fosters worry that the city isn ...