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Humane
Services:
Part
of our mandate is to provide Humane Services to residents. Any one
from anywhere may release dogs or cats to the shelter for adoption
or euthanasia and disposal (read more about our open admission policy
below).
The
fee is $120 + HST for dogs and $ 60. + HST for cats.
Pick
up service $15 (within Greater Sudbury, additional fees may apply
outside of the City of Greater Sudbury, please contact the shelter
for a quote).
Our adoption program is very successful and adoption fees vary from
$ 70 to $375 depending on our investment into the pet with respect
to vaccinations, spaying or neutering.
We
accept VISA, Mastercard, American Express, Debit Card & Cash.
NO CHEQUES/NO EXCEPTIONS.
and
learn more about "Small Things: CATS"!
An open admission
shelter:
Many
animals are left to suffer on the street or are abandoned or killed
by their owners. The lucky ones are taken to open-admission shelters.
Many of the animals who make it to The Rainbow District Animal Shelter
(an open-admission shelter) are reclaimed by their guardians or adopted
into new homes.
While
“No-kill shelters” do a valuable service, they are not
the answer to the overpopulation crisis. “No-kill shelters”
leave the killing to someone else. No-kill shelters usually only take
in the cutest, youngest dogs and cats (so they can tell donors that
they have a high adoption rate) and turn away older, sicker, and “less
adoptable” animals. When no-kill shelters are full, they turn
away new animals.
There
are still too few good homes for unwanted animals and many animals
ending up in our shelter are truly unadoptable. Dogs and cats are
often taken to shelters because of serious health conditions such
as parvovirus, contagious mange, upper respiratory infections, fungal
infections, and even broken limbs. Some are given up because of severely
aggressive behavior. Many dogs have lived their whole lives on chains
or in tiny, filthy pens and are generally unsocialized or fearful
of people.
We
often have to make the difficult decision to give the animals a painless
release from a world that doesn’t want them. Unwanted animals
who aren't adopted from the shelter in a timely manner and are not
claimed by their families receive painless, peaceful deaths in loving
arms by way of an intravenous injection, a good death. Euthanasia
is a kindness, often the only kindness ever known for animals which
are born into a world that doesn't want them, has not cared for them,
and ultimately has abandoned them to be disposed of as "surplus"
beings.
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