"To surrender an animal" means to give up or hand over ownership of a pet to someone else, usually a shelter or rescue organization, because you can no longer care for it or it is causing difficulties in your home.
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For other counties, please contact your local county shelter and note they may have different policies, pricing, and outcomes
for surrendered animals.
Because of the significance of your decision, we want to ensure that you thoroughly understand our policies
on surrendered animals.
Animal shelters, rescue groups and animal care and control agencies are seeing an increase in
surrendered animals as homeowners struggle to make living arrangements that may or may not include their pets.
We accept only owner -
surrendered animals through appointments to allow our staff to collect as much information as possible about the incoming pet.
Do your research regarding the different shelters in your area and find out what their policies and procedures are
for surrendered animals.
Because of the significance of your decision, we want to ensure that you understand our policies
on surrendered animals.
While priority is given to animals seized from suspected cruelty or neglect cases, we do try to accommodate as many
surrendered animals as we can.
As animal advocates, you've probably seen firsthand the distraught faces of
people surrendering animals because a new landlord doesn't allow pets.
Many shelters doing managed admission have seen significant reductions in owner surrenders, which they attribute in part to communities being willing to consider other options
before surrendering an animal.
We generally do not accept owner
surrendered animals into our adoption program, with the exception of animals previously adopted from MHS.
By surrendering an animal to us, you are relinquishing all rights of ownership and any further information regarding the animal.
If you are
Surrendering an animal adopted from PAAWS we will prioritize getting the animal into a Foster Home however can not guarantee immediate space in a Volunteer's home.
We accept dogs from Central Texas animal shelters, owners who
surrender their animals due to exceptional circumstances, and bassets placed with our organization by the court system due to abuse and neglect.
Indianapolis Animal Care Services: If you are not able to wait for an appointment and must
surrender the animal immediately, you can contact the Indianapolis city animal shelter, Indianapolis Animal Care Services (IACS).
In the summer months, however, the number of citizen -
surrendered animals doubles between the people who surrender their pets to the Shelter when they go on vacation and the people who didn't fix their pets and dump the puppies or kittens at the Shelter for the rest of us to take care of.
As one organization, the two shelters care for and find homes for 3,500 stray and
surrendered animals per year across 40 towns from Falmouth to Somerville.
We would like you to know that we understand how hard it can be to relinquish a beloved pet and appreciate your choice to
surrender your animal responsibly so that he or she will be safe and humanely cared for.
We rescue animals in risk of being euthanized in high kill shelters and intake
surrendered animals based on foster home availability.
OAS is an open admissions shelter, and accepts all homeless, injured, orphaned, lost, and
surrendered animals including pets, farm, exotic, and native wildlife animals.
Reports by past employees, the records submitted to VDACS by PETA itself, past inspections by VDACS, and PETA's own admissions collectively indicate that the organization routinely rounds up thousands of dogs and cats every year by promising members of the
public surrendering animals to them that they will find homes, only to immediately kill those dogs and cats without making an effort to do so.
Staging individual portraits for the local stray and
surrendered animals residing at the shelter, Moss has been able to use his passion and talent for photography to help give a new life to a countless number of dogs.
Stewart surrendered the animals to the Sheriff's Office Wednesday, and Sheriff Larry Taylor is working with the Benton County Prosecutor's Office to transfer custody of the animals, who can then be placed up for adoption.