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Facebook | Construye y vende cámaras de gas - 0 views

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    North Carolina has most PhDs per capita in the country, North Carolina is rated as two of the Best Places To Live in the country. North Carolina is rated as one of the five Best Places For Business And Careers in the country. THEN WHY IS NORTH CAROLINA THE THIRD HIGHEST STATE IN PER CAPITA NUMBER OF DOGS AND CATS KILLED WHEN IT IS ELEVENTH IN HUMAN POPULATION? Dr. Ralph Houser, DVM Ever wonder why North Carolina has so many county-funded animal gassing and heartstick facilities? Well, perhaps it's thanks to this Hitler incarnate, Dr. Ralph Houser, DVM, North Carolina Animal Rabies Control Association board member and owner of Carolina Veterinary Consulting. He manufactures and sells these gas chambers all throughout county-funded animal shelters in North Carolina and surrounding states that also still use them. Well, no wonder they haven't made headway getting this atrocity abolished, it seems this man is lining his pocket with government money.
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    "That poll also shows that 59 percent believe the group gives "most of its money" to local pet shelters. That's false, too. In fact, hands-on dog and cat shelters at the local level received less than 1 percent of the $86 million HSUS raised in 2008.
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Peta: lo mejor es matar los gatos callejeros - 0 views

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    "PETA cannot in good conscience oppose euthanasia as a humane alternative to dealing with cat overpopulation.  
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1,200 Free Roaming Dogs, Cats, Horses & Bunnies! | Care2 Causes - 0 views

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  • I’m fascinated by the innate understanding of animal dynamics it takes to keep such a large “herd” in balance
  • It’s a monumental task not only of great compassion, but great skill.
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    Gill Muñoz Gonzalez:   Ver perfil   Más opciones 29 mar, 11:26 "hola el día viernes lleve a mi gatita a la clínica felina moggie cats ella estaba bien solo que tenia arcadas .. paso lo siguiente ... la veterinaria sin examen sin nada, le saco liquido supuesta mente de los pulmones en la noche le dan convulsiones y la encargada le da diasepan. me llaman avisando que había sufrido un paro cardíaco y que había muerto.... este mail es para que no vayan a esa clínica veterinaria porque lo único que quieren es dinero. ademas al días siguiente la veterinaria no dio la cara y hablo otro veterinario... ademas la dejamos en la clínica porque ella nos dijo que era mejor que se quedara para hacerle los exámenes al otro día.. bueno en fin hay muchos veterinarios poco éticos y no entreguen a sus mascotas al cualquiera gracias 
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Partnership program trains volunteers to become pet detectives | Seattle News, Weather,... - 0 views

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shared by pepa garcía on 25 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • "This is a service that will find animals that might be scared and hiding, and a microchip isn't going to find them," she said.
  • Millions of dogs and cats go missing every year, and the common techniques people use aren't effective,
  • We use scent tracking dogs, cat detection dogs, high-tech equipment, wildlife cameras that snap pictures,' Albrecht said. "We've used a lot of surveillance equipment.
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Maddie's Fund - Using Data to Make Austin a No-Kill City - 0 views

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shared by pepa garcía on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • I founded a low-cost and free spay/neuter clinic, Emancipet, in 1999.
  • The thought was to decrease the number animals entering the shelter through fewer births in the community so fewer would have to be euthanized in the shelter for lack of space.
  • By 2008 and after over 60,000 spay/neuter surgeries, I had expected to see a bigger reduction in city shelter intake numbers.
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  • Although there was an initial decrease in euthanasia from 85% to 50% between 1999 and 2001, after 2001 the AAC (the only open admission shelter in Austin, Texas) consistently took in over 23,000 animals and euthanized an average of 50 - 55% of the animals admitted each year.
  • In fact, AAC euthanized over 14,000 animals in 2007, which was a decade record and showed me that my efforts were not decreasing shelter intake or euthanasia like I had hoped.
  • The other piece of data that was eye-opening to me in 2008 was that the number of AAC live outcomes stayed static at 10,000 per year, year after year, even after budgetary increases.
  • By then, the City of Austin and the Austin nonprofit animal welfare partners were providing substantial community services for spaying, neutering, vaccinations, and wellness clinics; however, the city's live releases had not changed at all in spite of the wealth of community resources that were geared towards lowering euthanasia.
  • It was clear that the city had a system that was capable of producing no more than 10,000 live outcomes per year, regardless of intake numbers, which meant that euthanasia only fluctuated when intake numbers fluctuated. If intake went up, euthanasia went up. If intake went down, euthanasia went down.
  • For years, the city had been measuring "inputs" for city performance standards such as the number of spay/neuters performed, the number of microchips placed, the number of rabies vaccines given; and with the large amounts of city and donor funds going into free and low-cost spay/neuter, it appeared to politicians and foundations from a performance measure standpoint that Austin was at the top of its game.
  • The thing that really struck me was that although "outputs" such as euthanasia, adoption, return to owner, and transfers were being documented and measured, decisions to directly impact those numbers were not being driven by their measurement. Funds were never requested to directly improve live outcomes and city staff was not being directed to strive for higher live outcome numbers. In fact, there was no live outcome improvements projected for at least the five years after 2007 and that was apparent as plans for capacity in building a new shelter got underway.
  • It bothered me that we had no real conclusive studies that showed the impact of spay/neuter on euthanasia in the shelter
  • and that the labors of all my work were not something I could see an impact from in a decade.
  • I felt strongly that there had to be a way to save more lives at the shelter and a more direct way to measure the work that provides that impact.
  • If it takes longer than a decade to see an impact at the shelter euthanasia level through spay/neuter, the work can never be tweaked to have a bigger impact.
  • There had to be a more direct method to save lives that could be measured month-to-month and tweaked quickly if the desired effect is not seen.
  • It appeared that a new and different kind of work needed to be created to really get measurable results on euthanasia figures since it also appeared that all current resources were operating at their max.
  • It was apparent to me that I needed to change what I was doing to effect faster change in the community.
  • The American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Demographic Sourcebook dispelled my belief that there were not enough homes.
  • In the Greater Austin Area, AVMA calculates that at least 75,000 homes take in a pet less than one year old each year, and the ASPCA has reported that only 20 - 25% come from shelters and rescues. We only had to find homes for up to 14,000 pets per year.
  • This seemed very doable when 75,000 homes are open each year for incoming pets.
  • Using Data to Identify and Fill in the Gaps
  • Using Data to Re-Assess and Fine-Tune Programs
  • The second strategy
  • Using Data to Develop Programs: Filling the Gaps
  • The first strategy
  • the medical help that I provided did not help the sheltered animals leave alive in any larger numbers.
  • off-site adoption programs
  • These were animals with mange or kennel cough, minor behavior issues like being scared, or animals with minor injuries. APA created a large-scale foster program to provide short-term foster for these animals as they overcame their minor problems.
  • neonatal nursery with all the supplies needed for around-the-clock kitten care
  • again built up a large-scale medical foster base for all the injured and ill animals.
  • large breed dogs with behavior problems.
  • The Austin community's demand for adopting a pet is higher than the supply from AAC
  • By bringing in animals from other shelters, APA is able to prevent adopters from becoming pet store pet buyers and thus save a whole lot more lives.
  • adult large breed dogs with behavior issues are adopted each year because of improved customer service,
  • pet-matching practices,
  • behavior modification
  • APA rescued over 5,000 animals last year. No cat, kitten, small breed dog, puppy of any breed, or large breed friendly dog, including pit bulls, died in the City of Austin in 2011 simply because it didn't have a home.
  • increase the number of adoption venues
  • additional exposure.
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Animals Petition: We Want Real Change, Not A Continuation of Failed Policies and Progra... - 0 views

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shared by pepa garcía on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez stated: "...I recognize the need to save more dogs and cats. This can only be accomplished by increasing our adoptions, rescues and fosters through many of the programs referenced in your correspondence."
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Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine - 0 views

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shared by pepa garcía on 06 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • have developed intelligence, emotions, and individual personalities. Their findings are challenging our understanding of consciousness itself.
  • more than 95 percent of all animals are invertebrates,
  • Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss
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  • an octopus can taste with all of its skin
  • but first they go senile, acting like a person with dementia
  • Octopuses die after mating and laying eggs
  • “You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,”
  • Octopuses in captivity actually escape their watery enclosures with alarming frequency.
  • Some, she said, “would lift their arms out of the water like dogs jump up to greet you.”
  • How do you prove the intelligence of someone so different?”
  • Small brain size was the evidence once used to argue that birds were stupid—before some birds were proven intelligent enough to compose music, invent dance steps, ask questions, and do math.
  • BIOLOGISTS HAVE LONG NOTED the similarities between the eyes of an octopus and the eyes of a human.
  • Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.
  • “It is as if each arm has a mind of its own,”
  • Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate
  • the skin of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, a color-changing cousin of octopuses, contains gene sequences usually expressed only in the light-sensing retina of the eye
  • In other words, cephalopods—octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid—may be able to see with their skin.
  • “Home,” Mather found, is where octopuses spend most of their time. A home, or den, which an octopus may occupy only a few days before switching to a new one, is a place where the shell-less octopus can safely hide: a hole in a rock, a discarded shell, or a cubbyhole in a sunken ship. One species, the Pacific red octopus, particularly likes to den in stubby, brown, glass beer bottles.
  • octopuses who dismantle Lego sets and open screw-top jars.
  • This octopus wasn’t the only one to use the bottle as a toy.
  • not only can these animals play with toys, but they may need to play with toys.
  • researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it—and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body. 
  • “Octopuses,” writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, “are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.”
  • the natural lifespan of a giant Pacific octopus is only three years
  • Except to mate, most octopuses have little to do with others of their kind.
  • we have to change the way we think of the nature of the mind itself to take into account minds with less of a centralized self.”
  • “I think consciousness comes in different flavors,” agrees Mather. “Some may have consciousness in a way we may not be able to imagine.”
  • This time I offered her only one arm. I had injured a knee and, feeling wobbly, used my right hand to steady me while I stood on the stool to lean over the tank. Athena in turn gripped me with only one of her arms, and very few of her suckers. Her hold on me was remarkably gentle.
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Small town animal shelter virtually no-kill | News - Home - 0 views

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  • the shelter takes in about 100 dogs and cats every month.
  • Banduch said she is focused on adoptions, low-cost spay/neuter and vaccination clinics, community outreach and recruiting foster homes for the animals.
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Op-ed: Creating a No Kill Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture i... - 0 views

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  • in Norfolk, Virginia, seven out of 10 cats and almost half of all dogs are still being needlessly killed. Why? Because shelter officials are mired in the 19th century model of animal control based on an “adopt a few, kill the rest” mentality.
  • And we aim to change that.
  • We’ve requested that the City Council pass an ordinance requiring Norfolk to run its shelter in line with those of the most successful communities in the nation, by requiring simple, commonsense and cost-effective alternatives to killing that most animal lovers would be shocked to learn are not already being comprehensively implemented voluntarily.
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  • One of the proposals is to make it illegal for Norfolk shelters to kill animals using taxpayer money when qualified non-profit rescue organizations are willing to save them at private expense.
  • All it will require are foster care,
  • That number now stands at over 58,939—a 370% increase in annual lifesaving, all at no cost to taxpayers.
  • Another of the Norfolk proposals would end the practice of killing animals simply because the mandated stray holding period has passed.
  • Before the California law went into effect, only 12,526 animals were being transferred from shelters to rescue groups statewide every year.
  • working with rescue groups,
  • marketing and adoptions
  • Can anyone with even a hint of common sense or compassion actually say it is better to kill baby kittens than have volunteers bottle feed them?
  • Right now, excluding laws imposed by health departments regarding the use of controlled substances, the disposition of rabid and potentially aggressive animals and mandated holding periods, shelter directors in this country have essentially unlimited discretion as to how they operate their facilities.
  • They can exclude members of the community from volunteering.
  • They can prevent other non-profits, such as rescue groups and other shelters, from saving the lives of animals in their custody.
  • And when volunteers or rescuers go public with their concerns, they are terminated.
  • Where shelters are not willing to do these things voluntarily or do so on a limited basis when they should be doing it for every single animal, every single time, we must pass laws forcing them to do so.
  • when all you ever do is all you’ve ever done then all you’ll ever get is all you’ve ever gotten.
  • Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity.
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Op-ed: No Kill: A Battle for the Soul of Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating ... - 0 views

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  • An HSUS/Maddie’s Fund survey has determined that 23.5 million Americans will take in a dog or cat next year. 17 million have not yet made a decision where that pet will come from.
  • the killing stops.
  • about half are euthanized.
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  • If we convince less than 20% of these 17 million potential adopters to adopt from a shelter
  • and if those shelters keep the animals alive while homes are being found
  • “In the U.S., 6 to 8 million animals enter shelters annually,
  • The numbers are overwhelmingly in the animals’ favor. This is why the No Kill Equation has worked, always, wherever it has been rigorously applied.
  • A brave city councilman, Andy Protogyrou, has proposed that Norfolk become a No Kill city
  • Nothing would alter the landscape of animal welfare more than this: to have the city in which PETA is headquartered demonstrate that shelter killing is entirely unnecessary.
  • Still, you must decide. The No Kill Equation depends upon the community.
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New York City in Chaos : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • the ASPCA takes in over $120,000,000 per year
  • Thanks to the ASPCA, Mayor’s Alliance, and Animal Law Coalition, New York City’s regressive pound has a license to turn away rescue groups and kill the animals they are willing to save. And thanks to Best Friends, Alley Cat Allies, and others who refused to support Oreo’s Law in deference to their relationships with these groups, that license is not being revoked anytime soon.
  • Where are the millions of dollars that the ASPCA and Mayor’s Alliance have raised for a “No Kill NYC” gone?
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Pet Overpopulation, Puppy Mills, and Lessons from Proposition B : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • To claim to want to shut down puppy mills, but to ignore or fight reform efforts to stop shelter neglect, abuse, and killing (as groups like HSUS and PETA do) is not only ethically inconsistent, it is morally bankrupt.
  • Neglect is neglect, abuse is abuse, killing is killing regardless of by whose hand that neglect, abuse, and killing is done.
  • To look the other way at one because that neglect, abuse, and killing is done by “friends,” “colleagues,” or simply because the perpetrators call themselves a “humane society” is indefensible.
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  • These organizations have built a dependency model where you give them money and they promise to take care of things, rather than empowering the grassroots to actually go out and solve the problem.
  • community education and protest
  • make it easy for people to do the right thing, and they will
  • we must expose these organizations for what they really are
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      cómo es en chile? hay informes sobre las condiciones etc. de los criaderos de perros?
  • legislation that prohibits puppy mill dogs from being sold either at pet stores or online,
  • , when we work to reform local shelters, we are also working to impact the puppy mill trade.
  • When shelters turn away good homes because of poor customer service or arbitrary rules, we fuel the pet shop trade
  • when shelters go head to head with the competition, they win.
  • uring the 1990s, at the height of its adoption success and popularity, the San Francisco SPCA had seven offsite adoption locations throughout the city seven days a week. Consequently, the number of pet stores which sold puppies was reduced to zero.
  • T]he more animals dying in a given community (which traditionalists claim means lack of homes), the greater number of pet stores that sell dogs and cats (which shows homes readily available). Generally, pet stores succeed when a shelter is not meeting market demand or competing effectively, and because animal lovers do not want to go into a shelter that kills the vast majority of the animals…
  • we can file civil lawsuits and push for criminal prosecution.
  • we can attempt to regulate and/or eliminate puppy mills directly through legislation, as several states have done
  • severe lack of state inspectors
  • Protest, educate, litigate, legislate, push for enforcement, and reform the shelter. And oh yeah, don’t buy from a pet store, sign my pledge, and send me money. (Just kidding.)
  • the bill will require commercial breeders to provide each dog with sufficient food and clean water, necessary veterinary care, housing, sufficient space, regular exercise, and limits on how many times per year a dog can be bred.
  • It continues the breeding, buying, and selling of dogs.
  • It specifically excludes dogs in animal research labs. It excludes breeding operations who sell “hunting dogs.” And it excludes animal shelters
  • the opposition is using the support of groups like the Humane Society of the United States to claim this is part of a radical animal rights agenda.
  • Compromises must often be made to achieve piecemeal success which can be built on over time.
  • For example, I would support laws banning the killing of animals in shelters altogether. But given tremendous opposition from the shelter killing industry, and the support of that industry by powerful groups like (ironically) the Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, and Best Friends, local and state governments are not willing to do that at this time in history, so I work on legislation like the Hayden Law and Assembly Member Micah Kellner’s rescue access bill in New York State to reduce the number killed. T
  • Historically, HSUS has a disturbing pattern of raising money on an issue, and immediately moving on, just as they did when they raised $30 million on Hurricane Katrina rescue, spent $4 million, shipped the animals off to kill shelters, announced “Mission: Accomplished,” and went  home $26 million richer with two criminal investigations on their fundraising practices in their wake.
  • we need local and other national groups to act less like simpleton cheerleaders of HSUS and more like what they should be—groups whose mission is to advocate for dogs.
  • HSUS taking some of its $110 million annual budget (of which only ½ of one percent goes to shelters)
  • ASPCA taking some of its $120 million in annual revenues,
  • Best Friends taking some of its $40 million per year it takes in to rescue only 600 animals per year (at a whopping $70,000 each
  • If HSUS and others fully commit resources and energy into creating a safety net for dogs currently in puppy mills who will be discarded when Proposition B passes, any potential downsides resulting from this legislation would be eliminated.
  • In truth, I believe people are ready for laws banning puppy mills altogether and that would make sense, so long as we do not inadvertently open up markets to puppy mills from places like China, where medieval levels of barbarity would likely be the norm and they would remain out of regulatory reach.
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