✨SUPER ADOPTION SATURDAY IS SEPTEMBER 28TH!!✨ Are you ready for the biggest Chicago Adoption Event of the year? Have you purchased your merch in support of all of our animal saving efforts and to help us organize this event? Heartland Animal Shelter along with 18 rescues make up the Chicagoland Humane Coalition . We need your help to put on the LARGEST CHICAGO ADOPTION EVENT to save as many pets as possible!!! All proceeds from this merchandise will go towards organizing this event so we can find loving homes for many pets still waiting for their forever families to find them! By uniting our efforts, we aim to achieve the best outcomes for both pets and people through shared goals, addressing urgent local concerns, and bolstering our communities. Help us host the most successful and largest SUPER ADOPTION SATURDAY by supporting our campaign with a purchase of this design and by spreading the word! Incredible things happen when animal rescues and the community work together! https://lnkd.in/g8n-MQqB 📸 :: Soon to be adoptable, Gambino, pulled from Chicago Animal Care and Control on September 3rd!
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Dogs and Best Friends Animal Society supporters and staff filled the Hall of Governors Tuesday to celebrate Gov. Spencer Cox declaring 2024 as no-kill shelter year in Utah. “Whereas, achieving no-kill for all of Utah’s animal shelters is within reach, and would make Utah the largest no-kill state and the first no-kill state in the West,” Cox wrote, “Now, therefore, I, Spencer J. Cox, governor of the state of Utah, do hereby declare 2024 as no-kill shelter year in Utah.” The declaration encourages animal shelters to change policies to save pets’ lives. A no-kill state means that the shelters within the state save the lives of pets they house. According to data from Best Friends, 47 out of 60 shelters across the state are no-kill. So far, 45,538 furry friends have been saved. The total save rate is 87.8%, while 1,700 cats and dogs have been killed. This data was formulated from shelters’ most recent data (in years 2021, 2022 or 2023). Read more: bit.ly/4bXuWKo ✏️: Hanna Seariac, Deseret News 📸: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News #animalwelfare #animalshelter #utah
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⏰ TODAY ⏰ Join us for our Return to Home webinar at 5pm ET by registering at the link in the comments. We all know so many of the stray animals that end up in our shelters have families out there missing them. Ideally, everyone would know what to do when their pet goes missing, and we could get lost pets home quickly. Yet, recent data reveals a concerning trend: there has been a 26% regression in Return to Home (Owner) for dogs since 2019. Join today's live discussion with industry experts on how to boost reclaim rates, build trust in your communities while educating them on prevention methods, and empower field officers to return pets home in the field. Meet Our Guests: ✅ Kaitlyn Pappas, Pet Resources Manager, Pima Animal Care Center ✅ Michele Figueroa, Program Manager, Pima Animal Care Center ✅ Nick Walton, Senior Manager, National Shelter Support, Best Friends Animal Society ✅ Lorien Clemens, Chief Executive Officer, PetHub, Inc. Together, we'll discuss strategies for returning lost/stray pets and share innovative ways to ensure more pets get back home in this live webinar sponsored by PetHub. Register now at the link in the comments and join live TODAY at 5pm ET.
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I'd like to offer some clarification: a 90% save rate is not a "gold standard." It should be our EXPECTATION that animal welfare organizations* don't kill healthy and treatable animals. We should expect that those put in situations to protect the lives of animals implement proven and effective lifesaving programs and that they have the resources and community support to effectively do so. 90% is a benchmark for that expectation - understanding that a small percentage of animals (usually less than 10%) that enter shelters are too sick, injured, or aggressive to be responsibly rehomed. Yes, there are absolutely other things that animal welfare organizations can and should be doing (which was the primary point of the webinar). But first and foremost, they should be not prematurely ending their lives. *In this case, I'm using a very broad definition of "animal welfare organizations" to include animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, rescues, animal control organizations, animal services and animal protection organizations.
While some may consider having a 90% or higher save rate to be a "gold standard" for measuring the success or failure of an animal shelter or rescue, save rate focuses only on a singular point in a complex societal issue. Later today, Dr. Ellen Jefferson, DVM, President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! will join Cole Wakefield, MS, Executive Director of Good Shepherd Humane Society, to discuss how many animal sheltering organizations around the country are operating beyond humane capacity (while only receiving a fraction of the resources they need), and what must change in order to continue to see increases in positive outcomes for homeless pets.
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WAKE UP CALL!!! At the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society in New York, their kennel is so overrun, some of their animal residents are being housed in their offices. Animal shelters are filling up with beloved pets whose human families can no longer afford to take care of them. Experts say it's happening across the country. Ashley Jeffrey Bouck, CEO of Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, told CBS News, “Unfortunately, as we're seeing more and more animals entering our shelter, we're not seeing the same rate of animals leaving our shelter. Our adoption numbers have been down about 5-to-9% year over year, but our stray numbers have increased about 40%. So unfortunately, as we've seen, maybe ten dogs come in each week we’re only seen five dogs go out. And this way our kennels are staying fuller longer.” At the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society in New York, their kennel is so overrun, some of their animal residents are being housed in their offices. Food and veterinary care cost the average cat or dog owner between $500 and $1,000 per year. Some shelters are waiving fees to get pets adopted, especially for large dogs. But full kennels have unfortunately become common. “It's been going on for over a year now and unfortunately has only gotten worse. And we're seeing this not just here in the capital region of New York, but we're seeing this throughout the entire United States. And it is a crisis,” Ashley Jeffrey Bouck added. According to the organization Stray Animals Count, more than 654,000 dogs and cats in the United States have been relinquished by their owners between January and November 2023. If unable to adopt a pet, shelter executives say temporary fostering, food donations, and even volunteering to take dogs on walks can greatly help pets in need. https://lnkd.in/gUa4Vbkf
Over 654,000 Pets Relinquished to Animal Shelters in 2023
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