Pets received at
the shelter without identification of any kind are held for five days before being placed for adoption.
Not exact matches
This means that if a stray animal is caught by animal control, if it has
identification, returning it home
without even taking it to the city
shelter.
She may have been part of an unwanted litter because of lack of spay / neuter, ended up stray
without identification and micro-chip, or her owner surrendered her to a
shelter for whatever reason.
She was found
without identification and taken to the humane society's
shelter, where, four days later, another family adopted her.
Many of these animals wind up in
shelters because their owners have surrendered or abandoned them; or they are lost
without identification and are picked up as strays by animal control officers.
It also notes that cats
without identification should be made available for adoption immediately (mostly for space reasons and so cats don't stay in the
shelter long enough to get sick) unless a cat has
identification given that only 2 % of cats are ever reclaimed, and almost never
without identification present.