SNAP, Spay/Neuter & Animal Wellness Clinic of Houston, currently has a partnership with BARC, among other animal shelters to assist in their adopted animals’ spay and neuter operations. Once these pets are fixed, they are at a lesser rate to run-away to find a mate, which will decrease the number of stray puppy litters seen by these shelters.
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Houston Humane Society provides similar resources through their Pet Resources Program, ‘ Fix Felix & Friends,” all animals adopted will come spayed or neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated free of charge. Also all of their animals adopted directly through them come with an adoption package which includes microchipping, most up-to-date vaccinations, one free bag of Hill's Pet Nutrition food, and one free post-adoption visit from any VCA animal hospital. The Houston SPCA directly connects adoptees with local clinics that either provide low-cost or no-cost spay-neuter services through their spay-neuter assistance program. This is why many shelters are emphasizing their spay-neuter resources. These shelters are having to provide services to juggle between the rise in animal intakes and the decrease in adoptions. Creating accessibility to adoptions is one thing, managing their growth in populations is another. Also, if the adoptee does not elect to participate in delivery services, they have the option to arrive at the shelter and pick-up their pets. With the implementation of ‘Doggy Dash and Kitty Kab’ services, with Curbside Pick-Up, animals can be transported and delivered directly to the adoptee. Not only are they making it as inexpensive as possible, they are also ensuring that adoptions are accessible as possible. “These pets do not have to go to the veterinarian until their one-year check-up.” “We are making it as non-expensive as we can by providing everything for the pet,” Vasquez says. To motivate community members to adopt, Fort Bend County Animal Services instituted free spaying, neutering, chipping and vaccination services for no cost to the adoptive family or individual. This is placing Vasquez’s team in a difficult position where adoptions are not meeting the number of animal intakes. “Here in Fort Bend, we are too and we know that right now all shelters are dealing with it too.”įort Bend County Animal Services’ adoptions, rescues and fosters have gone down. “It is not just your Great-Houston area shelters that are dealing with the crisis,” Rene Vasquez, Director of Fort Bend County Animal Services, says.
“Just this year, there has already been an increase in the number of strays our team has brought in by 34 percent.”īARC has seen the overall percentage of strays rise to 60 percent, while owner-surrender animal returns make up 30 percent of their facilities’ overall population. “There is a larger rate of animals being turned out on the streets because of the pandemic,” Stottlemyer says.
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