Safety Net provides foster placement, veterinary help, counseling and other remedies that can help prevent a pet losing its home and family because of a temporary crisis by helping a family weather a temporary storm. The Big Fix provides low or no cost spay neuter services to pets of needy families;. A House is Not a Home without a Pet, partners with local landlords and real estate agents to place shelter animals in new homes;.
Guardian Angel partners with local dog trainers to rehabilitate difficult to place dogs and ensures dogs receive adequate exercise and socialization while in a shelter and then features these animals on YouTube and other social mediums to help promote adoption. Disadvantaged youth are provided job training opportunities in animal care while seniors provide valuable mentoring to at risk kids.
TLC addresses a unique combination of community needs: the paucity of employment training, mentoring, and after-school educational activity among at-risk youth and the need of pets in shelters to have contact with humans on a regular basis. A robust Volunteer Program that includes neonate fostering and socialization programs is also critical.
There are just a few of the many programs Boks has developed over the years. Every community is unique, and after an Organizational Assessment and an Environmental Scan , the very best targeted programs can be designed, developed and implemented.
Skip to content Ed Boks humane, non-lethal programs can help your community achieve and sustain No-Kill The Boks approach to achieving No-Kill focuses on comprehensive data collection, assessment, and implementation of programs targeted to meet the special requirements of human and animal populations most in need. Targeted Boks Programs include: New Hope: is a contractual program designed to maximize the limited resources of a local coalition of organizations working collaboratively to place the greatest number of shelter animals.
Nobody is going to vote for a politician if they hate animals—or act as if they do. There are many more people out there who will vote for somebody who demonstrates they have a heart for animals. I would assume that bears with it the stigma that you are connected to city government.
How are you working to correct these assumptions? The DoH is a wonderful partner in supporting us in our animal control aspect. When it comes to the animal care component or the types of programs that provide for the humane needs of animals—that will ultimately bring down the cost of animal control—we are reliant on donations.
The city does not have the wherewithal or the means to provide more than the very minimum approach to animal control and very little for animal care. Would you say that the bulk of the funds received from Public Health is for animal control and not for care? That is correct. Thankfully, anybody who wants to help, can. We have a volunteer program; you can give donations. The team that is coming together—including those who have stayed and those who have joined the organization—are extraordinary people.
Turn this organization around we will. The top priority, of course, is to get humane shelters built. That to me is really, really key right now. The current configuration of our shelters can be very detrimental to the mental and physical health of animals. Currently, nearly 70 percent of the animals who enter the system have needed to be put down. What are the critical components of making that happen? Humane shelters would go a long way.
My definition of a humane shelter is one that provides for the well-being of animals as well as the people who come in to adopt or look for their lost animals. Our shelters right now are little more than holding facilities. They really were not designed or developed for adoption; or to find a lost pet either. Education is also important. Are exotic or wild animals an issue you have to contend with, such as the individual in Harlem recently found to have a tiger and an alligator in his apartment?
We rescue in the neighborhood of 8, wild or exotic animals each year, and we end up holding them for days, even weeks, at a time trying to find a place to rehab or release them. Every time we do so eliminates a space that could house a homeless dog or cat.
This is a significant problem that nobody seems to be able, or in some cases, wants to address. We think we may have found a facility that can be used to house and rehab wildlife and, in the process, free up tens of thousands of kennel spaces each year. This is real animal control. We rescue 45, animals a year. It services 24 of the fastest growing towns and cities in the country and covers an area larger than 17 states, over 9, square miles.
Please tell every dog or cat owner you know. Even if you don't have a pet, please pass this to those who do. Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog Calypso decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn't acting lethargic in any way.
The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk. Half way through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly. Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company's website, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats.
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