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Shelters and shelter-like volunteer organizations responded to cat overpopulation with trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs, which reduced feral cat populations and reduced the burden on shelters. In the United States , many government-run animal shelters operate in conditions that are far from ideal.
[18] [20] [16] "Examining a large municipal animal shelter with a large number of dog and cat data, color and coat pattern were implicated in adoption rates, with more light-colored animals adopted and fewer euthanized than their dark-colored and patterned counterparts. [21] "Wells and Hepper (1992) reported that potential adopters at an animal ...
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Adoption always saves two lives- the life of the animal you’re adopting and the life of the animal who can now enter the rescue. 18. Adopting a cat may benefit heart health
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 ...
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The 2012 conference had 33 speakers, including shelter directors with save rates as high as 98%. [10] Attendance jumped from 300 the previous year, to nearly 900. [6] Half of the attendees were from shelters, many of them municipal shelters which historically had "acrimony with the rescue and no kill community but were embracing it in droves in ...
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