The pet will be held for a 5 days
stray hold period to give an owner a chance to reclaim that pet.
These funds only cover the basic care for these pet during their 5 -
day stray holding period.
One of the many topics that was covered in their highly detailed white paper is the notion of
stray hold times.
If the owner does not reclaim the animal, the animal will be spayed / neutered and vetted as soon as possible to the first day it came off
of stray hold.
Other animals may become available
after stray hold is complete, while other animals will thrive better in a different shelter or rescue environment and those animals will be transferred.
If your schedule allows, you are encouraged to visit our dogs here at the shelter, as we often have these dogs but they are
on stray hold.
The cat and kittens will wait
until stray hold is up, for no reason since you know that there will not be an owner coming in to reclaim them.
Healthy dogs will be made available to the public for adoption after serving a state -
mandated stray hold.
Adoption is only finalized if the owner does not come in to redeem the pet within the
designated stray hold period.
We would like to see American shelters and
stray holding meet these standards and feel that there is a need for legislation to enforce them.
The worker told me that if I wanted her, she was mine, although she'd have to remain at the shelter for their mandatory two -
week stray holding period.
Please discuss these items with your state legislators and ask that they be mandated for all American shelters and
stray holding facilities.
If your schedule allows, you are encouraged to visit our dogs here at the shelter, as we often times have these dogs but they are
on stray hold.
Additional fees may apply if reclaimed after the 7
day stray hold ($ 15 / day).
Holds are allowed to be placed on animals that are adoptable or still on
stray hold for a non-refundable $ 25 fee.
To implement open selection, determine which areas of the shelter will be accessible to the public, allowing as much access as possible to animals
in stray hold while protecting people from exposure to dangerous animals or those involved in legal proceedings.
However, the only way you can truly indemnify yourself as a rescue, is to only pull dogs from shelters after they have completed their
legal stray hold time.
Because unidentified cats are rarely reclaimed,
mandatory stray holds of any length tend to be detrimental.
While both groups are technically right, based on the actual data and personal experience in leadership of an open admission no kill shelter, I think the law change to
decrease stray hold times will SIGNIFICANTLY increase the ability for shelters to save lives and support the bill in its entirety.
If your animal has be here longer that the
established stray holding period for that animal, then he / he may have received veterinary care and adoption fees will apply...
However, abandonment laws and
stray hold requirements are often unspecific or nonexistent, meaning cat advocates may be on more solid legal ground than they realize and can work with policymakers to exclude community cats from the laws; in tougher cases, some shelters outsource returning the cats to local rescues or volunteers to avoid directly flouting the law.
After being found by Stephanie Dagenhart, a good Samaritan who sat with the frightened dog until help arrived, Duke was taken to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) and held for the mandatory 72 -
hour stray hold.
When
evaluating stray holding periods, check the median time to owner reclaim — at many shelters, the vast majority of dogs that are ever reclaimed, are reclaimed on the first or second day in the shelter.
After the
minimum stray hold of four days from the intake date listed, a stray animal will be given medical and behavior exams and may then be sent to a foster home, breed rescue, or made available for adoption.
Our organizations advise people that have found a dog to contact their official
local stray holding facility (whether it be the shelter, a vet clinic or kennel, the town office or police department).
In 2001, the ward was moved to Town Lake Animal Center — the city's
former stray hold facility — and APA's capacity to care for ringworm cats jumped from a dozen cats to 40.
By 2:30 p.m., Dallas Animal Services was out of adoptable pets and began directing clients to its Lost and Found area where they could pre-adopt animals on
stray hold if they went unclaimed.
For animals who are claimed while
under stray hold, boarding fees and $ 42 for vaccinations will be charged to help the Society offset the cost of care.
I have been advocating during this time for an exemption to the 3 day
stray hold for «feral» cats as they become so stressed in the shelter that they break out in URI by the time they are neutered at our clinic and have to be treated for an additional 10 days.
We require them to first go to Tulsa Animal Welfare to serve their 72 hour
legal stray hold.
In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission (MADACC) is currently under Wisconsin's 7
day stray hold period.
A: Animals that are not reclaimed within the city's «
stray hold time» are then transferred to the ARL to enter our adoption program.
He was taken to BARCS, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, where he was placed on a
mandatory stray hold until Friday.
Stray animals that are brought to The Anti-Cruelty Society are transported to an authorized holding facility (Chicago Animal Care and Control: (312) 747-1406 or The Animal Welfare League: (773) 667-0088) for the legally
mandated stray holding period.
If your animal has be here longer that the
established stray holding period for that animal, then he or she will have to be spayed or neutered before leaving and adoption fees will apply...
In some cities, return - to - field and TNR programs are hindered by abandonment laws or
stray hold requirements — requirements that assume animals are lost pets with the unintentional side effect of requiring shelters to hold unowned cats for a period of time, waiting for a nonexistent owner.
When we left off on our story of Gabriel and Serafina, we were waiting to take possession of the dogs from the vet where they were being held
on stray hold and bring Serafina to Oradell for evaluation of her injuries.
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