The advantages of adopting from Animal & Bylaw Services:
- You are giving a healthy, loving cat or dog a second chance by providing a forever home.
- All animals are checked by a veterinarian for health and behavioural problems.
- Qualified Animal Health Technologists advise you throughout the adoption process.
- Volunteers work with the animals to keep them happy and socialized.
- The adoption fee is a great value that includes many extras.
- Spay / neuter surgery
- A microchip implant
- A six-month animal licence
- The first set of vaccinations (excluding rabies)
- De-worming for cats and puppies under six months
- Testing for feline leukemia (cats only)
- A bag of pet food
- An adoption kit
- GST
- View the animals currently for adoption in Adoptable Dogs or Adoptable Cats. You can also see Impounded Dogs or Impounded Cats for an expanded listing of the cats or dogs at the Animal Services Centre.
- Visit the Animal Services Centre at 2201 Portland Street SE or call 3-1-1 to put your name on a waiting list for adoptable cats or dogs you are interested in adopting.
- When your name comes up on the list, you'll be called and invited to the Animal Services Centre for an initial visit with the animal.
- You'll then be asked to return the next day with any family members who will be living with your potential pet to ensure that the animal is compatible with the family. If you are adopting a dog, you'll be asked to return with any dogs you already have to ensure that the resident dog and the new dog are well-matched.
- If the animal has not already been spayed / neutered, it will be booked into our clinic for the procedure.
- You can then pick up your cat or dog from the Animal Services Centre.
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I would never want a microchipped animal as a pet if you paid me. First of all, these chips are just an introduction to getting humans used to the idea of being microchipped themselves. They go against the grain of many humans. Secondly they sometimes cause irritation and/or cancer and sometimes even migrate.
ReplyDeleteI myself adopt my cats from healthy farm stock, and then neuter them and give them only the shots I feel they need - not every shot that Big Pharma tries to push on them.
My latest cat is 18 years old and will probably live to be 20. I once almost adopted a companion for her from a pet store until they told me it was innoculated. Poor kitty lost a good home where it would've been spoiled rotten because of that.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why you posted this information to a blog such as this one. This particular blog has links to three different adoption organizations in desperate need of adoptive families. All of them offer slightly different services and ones like the Meow foundation do not necessarily require microchipping.
If you aren't interested because these cats are vaccinated and microchipped fine. But why potentially turn off other potential adopters? If you don't like the city policy of including microchips then speak to that directly. Honestly, you're probably costing many needy cats a good home.
I adopted a cat from the Calgary Humane Society about 7 years ago for $70.00, now it's $150.00. I'd love to adopt another one but can't afford the increase. The cat I adopted didn't come with a bag of pet food a microcip or an adoption kit and guess what? he's still around and he's healthy and he's happy. I wonder how many cats won't get adopted because of the high adoption costs. Do these cats really need a microchip? Do they need to come with an adoption kit? All of these extra's add up to double the adoption price. Do high adoption costs make sense?
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous 11:30 am:
ReplyDeleteI spoke with Animal Services, and they let me know that The City's adoption costs are very similar to the costs that are charged by MEOW and the Calgary Humane Society. We do this on purpose because we are partners, not in competition but all simply want animals adopted and into homes.
The adoption costs are calculated according to how much it costs to keep an animal: the costs of our vet, Animal Health Techs, food, shots, electricity, heat and building maintenance. These costs have gone up proportionately over the past seven years in relation to the cost of adopting a pet today.
Cats are adopted with a 6-month licence and a microchip because those are necessary to get a lost pet back to their owner. The fact that the pet didn’t have those, is what caused him to end up in our shelter waiting to be adopted.
Adoptable pets are spayed or neutered. Vets charge anywhere from $150 to $400 to do this. So, adopting a shelter pet is a great financial deal. Anyone who got a “free” cat would end up spending much more than our adoption fee by getting the pet’s initial shots (included in our fee) and the initial exam.
Hope this answers some of your questions.