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These laws are not having the desired effect i.e. a reduction in kill rates in local animal shelters.

One of the programs of the No Kill Equation is high volume, low cost spay/neuter services:  "Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives."  

increased voluntary sterilization does help reduce the number of animals entering shelters

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.

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.

At at least Stephens, some students have also applied for pet-friendly housing to offer foster care to animals from local shelters. 

Another issue that's been raised is the number of pets being abandoned or dumped at shelters at the end of the year by irresponsible students who didn’t consider what would happen when they had to either return home or find pet-friendly off-campus housing and roommates.

They were cut down by so-called “environmentalists.” They were killed by those whose mission was supposed to be their protection. According to the local chapter of the Audubon Society, the trees were not “native” and had to be destroyed.

Invasion Biologists

believe that certain plants or animals should be valued more than others if they were at a particular location “first.”

He's got his young wife, he's thinking about biology, and he goes down to the shore, and he picks up some snails, and he picks up some fish from the local fish market, and he begins to dissect them, and he writes the results down, and that's when biology is born, in those few years.

What Aristotle meant by soul, he meant the moving principle of life. And there's nothing vitalist about it, there is nothing metaphysical about it. It's hard to get a grip on what he meant, but it's a resolutely empirical kind of concept. What he meant was something like this, he says all living things have a soul, and when they die, the soul disappears. So none of that nonsense about the immortality of the soul. Plato thought souls were immortal, many people, popular belief had that the souls were immortal, but Aristotle is clearly using soul in a very special, and technical, and new sense. It's the moving principle of life.

What he's getting at is that the soul is not matter itself, it's the way that matter is organized. It's the relationship between the parts. It's the system. And, in fact, many Aristotelian scholars reaching for metaphors to explain what Aristotle is getting at, they use words like "system", and "cybernetic", and so on, depending on exactly when they were writing. You know, when cybernetics was cybernetics, well, they used that. And I think that's basically right.

Aquellos animales que sean sorprendidos vagando sin sus dueños en el espacio público serán trasladados por personal municipal hasta los domicilios que arrojen los antecedentes contenidos en el chip. Los dueños deberán pagar los costos del traslado de la mascota. Además, según el caso, se podría aplicar una multa, fijada por el juzgado de policía local.

What they found is that dogs, their worldwide numbers estimated at 500million,

can cause more damage to wildlife and livestock than wolves and other apex predators.

One study cited by Young concluded through genetic testing that dogs - not wolves, as originally suspected - were responsible for a rash of livestock killings in the mountainous Basque country between Spain and France.

two dozen local residents helping to rescue and save the dogs.