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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 ...
The Director has the ability to issue certificates of registration and licenses to animal shelters, pet shops, public auctions, boarding kennels, and dealers, but excluding facilities used for boarding or training hunting dogs. Some licenses incur annual fees, and they may be revoked after an impartial investigation.
The Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center is instituting extra cleaning protocols and advising staff and volunteers to wear PPE there as they manage what the director is calling a "low ...
A retail shelter operates like an ordinary animal shelter but with more of the flavor of a pet store than a traditional shelter by selling pet supplies. They may even obtain animals from out of the area to increase their inventory of animals, rather than serving only their geographic service area. [6]
Pets forced to evacuate by the Franklin Fire in Malibu have found shelter at the Agoura Animal Care Center. The fire stands at 20% containment as of Thursday.
PETERSBURG — A highly contagious viral disease which affects dogs has caused the Petersburg Animal Shelter to close for at least two weeks until all dogs test negative for parvo, canine parvovirus.
Fueled by public outrage from a 2014 incident where PETA workers took a pet chihuahua from its porch and euthanized it the same day, along with documentation that of the 1,606 cats and 1,025 dogs accepted by the shelter that same year, 1,536 cats and 788 dogs were euthanized, the Virginia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 1381 in 2015 aimed ...
In March 2014 the New York Daily News published an article entitled "City animal shelters see boost in adoptions and drop in euthanasia" [13] citing various improvements to the condition and care of shelter animals. AC&C still has to euthanize almost 5,000 animals a year due primarily to illnesses from poor ventilation in the shelter, as ...