Maine animal shelter rescues nearly 40 animals from shelters hit hard by Ida

KENNEBUNK, Maine (WMTW) – The Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk has rescued nearly 40 cats and dogs from shelters hit hard by Hurricane Ida.

The shelter partnered with Animal Rescue Front to bring 17 dogs and 22 cats to Maine from Hancock County, Mississippi. The animals arrived Wednesday.

Shelter officials said the rescued cats and dogs will be examined, spayed or neutered, received necessary vaccinations and be microchipped before being put up for adoption next week.

Anyone wishing to help support the animals is encouraged to make a financial donation though the Animal Welfare Society’s website.

People wishing to adopt the pets should go to the AWS website for more information, including how to make an adoption appointment.

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Why animal shelters are facing a new crisis

When Baloo, a big white rabbit, and his brother Elliott were surrendered to an animal shelter outside Montreal, Canada, the countdown started.

Strapped for money and overcrowded, the shelter put the word out to rescue organizations that the rabbits would be euthanized in three days unless someone stepped up to take them. The shelter had so many rabbits, according to Haviva Porter, who runs Rabbit Rescue Inc., a Toronto-based nonprofit, that it wasn’t even listing them for public adoption.

“This has been the worst year ever in 20 years of rescue,” Porter says.

Animal rescuers across the United States and Canada echo her experience. “It’s been a sea change the last few months,” says Joe Labiola, director of PAWS Atlanta animal shelter. He says the shelter is getting by—but only just.

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How animal shelters are helping conserve animals immediately after Hurricane Ida

It really is not just the folks of Louisiana and Mississippi who are working with the awful aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

Animal shelters nationwide are pitching in to enable evacuate all the animals in will need from the two states following the Group 4 hurricane prompted significant destruction and widespread electrical power outages.

Kerry Sanders spent time with a pair of lovely canines at the Humane Society of Broward County in Dana Beach, Florida, on Currently Wednesday as the group performs to assist animals in distress obtain a new house.

Numerous of the cats and canines transported to shelters close to the nation will not return to Louisiana and Mississippi, which implies they are on the lookout for new properties in new states. Eight animals have previously been adopted at the Humane Culture of Broward County.

Companies from Washington, D.C., to San Diego have been functioning to bring the animals

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Help KPRC 2 Clear the Shelters with our annual pet adoption drive!

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Participating animal shelters in the Houston area may offer reduced fee adoptions or waived pet spaying and neutering fees. Please check with each individual shelter or rescue group to see if they are offering Clear the Shelters adoption incentives.

If you are considering adding to your family by adopting a rescue pet, please be prepared for a lifelong commitment to the pet. Pets require veterinary care, food, water and shelter, preferably indoors away from the Texas heat and elements. Rescue pets have so much love to give and we want to see them go to loving forever homes.

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Alabama animal shelters closing because of to COVID-19 exposures

Animal shelters are closing in Mobile and Birmingham due to the fact of a the latest COVID-19 exposures.

According to the Cellular County Animal Shelter, all shelter staff are below quarantine for 10 days by means of the stop of the month. A reopening day is tentatively scheduled to reopen to the public on Monday, August 31. The Higher Birmingham Humane Society’s Snow Travel and Adoption and Education and learning Middle is also closed to the community until August 31, owing to staffing shortages and protective quarantines due to the fact of the virus.

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Throughout the closure, Mobile County officials say that only critical personnel will adhere to protocols like those carried out in the course of extreme climate activities to manage small functions:

  • The shelter and the county’s Animal Control Department will be sanitized, and masks worn by any essential staff undertaking critical function all through this time.
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