Sentence examples similar to relinquished animals from inspiring English sources

Rescuers argue that people might not relinquish animals if they thought they would be punished.

What two recent studies -- published in the journal Animals and the Open Journal of Animal Sciences -- found is that in many cases, folks are relinquishing animals because they can't afford their veterinary costs, or because affordable, pet-friendly rentals are so scarce.

Raising a good canine citizen doesn't come naturally to every dog guardian, which is one of the reasons so many unlucky pups are relinquished to animal shelters each year.

The owner of a large-scale dog breeding operation near the city of Greenville agreed Tuesday to relinquish 117 animals — 93 adult dogs, 22 puppies and two cats — to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas, a local animal welfare agency that operates shelters and spay-and-neuter clinics.

The legislation could be a critical safety net to prevent struggling pet owners who can no longer afford to care for their animal companions from relinquishing them at animal shelters -- which not only tears families apart but also places a financial burden on local municipalities and private shelters for the costs of housing pets and, tragically, euthanizing them.

Approximately half of these animals were relinquished by their owners.

A small number of studies have investigated the reasons why animals are relinquished to such organisations.

In doing so, the program keeps animals from being relinquished to shelters, saving lives as well as the hundreds of dollars it typically costs a shelter to rehome a pet.

"The animals are often abandoned, relinquished or just kept in very substandard and dangerous conditions because they're wild animals and people don't know how to deal with them," she said.

Since the center's 1966 dedication, science has advanced in leaps, except for resistance to relinquishing the ineffective animal model for human research.

Instead of being racked with guilt about having to relinquish a wild animal who was evidently in no way able to make the transition to household pet with any real success, Laura Shaine Cunningham should applaud her (and her daughter's) having made sound choices for Raven Starling: an appropriate adoptive home with a loving, caring family.