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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 $100 + GST for dogs and $ 50. + GST for
cats.
Pick up service $15.
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, Debit Card & Cash.
NO CHEQUES/NO EXCEPTIONS.
and learn more about Friends of
Shelter Pets!
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 Greater Sudbury 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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