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In 2009, Shelby County, Kentucky, became the first no-kill community in Kentucky through a joint effort of the county shelter and the Shelby Humane Society. [32] In March 2010, the Austin, Texas City Council unanimously passed a resolution for the City's open-admission shelter to achieve a 90% save rate of all impounded animals. [33]
Following the decline of the anti-vivisection movement in the early-twentieth century, animal welfare and rights movements did not re-emerge until the 1950s. In 1955, the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL) was founded to lobby for humane slaughter legislation, and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) was passed in 1958. [14]
Adoption and sending to rescue or sanctuary are permanent placements; fostering is a temporary placement. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A retail rescue takes advantage of right-of-first-choice of the free or cheap inventory of animals from shelters to flip shelter-pulled animals under the banner of 'adoption', with little or no retraining or veterinary care in ...
In 2024, dog and cat adoption has gone down 4 percent (or about 82,000 pups) when compared to 2023. Dogs alone have gone down 5 percent (59,000 fewer) and cat adoption has gone down 2 percent ...
The Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County opened a low-cost vet clinic in 2021, and an additional $250,000 is on the way. Dogs, cats and commissioners: Shelby County Government to give ...
April marks the one year anniversary of the Humane Society of Harlingen becoming a no kill shelter. It also marks the highest save rate the shelter has ever seen, at 98.39 percent. ...
The agency receives both federal and state funding and has additional sources of revenue. The agency received a state appropriation of $753 million and had a total budget of $5.1 billion for fiscal year 2023. [1] The Department of Human Services is the largest employer in Oklahoma state government.
The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...