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Purrfect: Adopt An Animal Shelter Cat For Just $20 This Month
June 22, 2018
It’s National Adopt a Shelter Cat Month- the purrfect time of the year to adopt a feline friend from the Escambia County Animal Shelter.
To celebrate, the shelter is offering a special reduced adoption fee of $20 for all cats and kittens for the month of June. Adoption fees include altering of the animal (spay or neutering services), microchip and the initial vaccinations, including rabies vaccinations. Escambia County residents will be required to purchase a license at the time of adoption. This is an additional $11 over the adoption fees and is paid separately.
A few of the cats at the shelter include:
– Scarlet (pictured above) a 3-month old medium hair gray tabby that is nothing but cuteness from ears to her fluffy tail. She’s playful and sweet.
– Apple Sauce (pictured inset) a delightful female tabby that is about 3-years old.
– Violet, pictured below, a a silvery-gray package of pure love. This one year-old female is not only gorgeous, but is incredibly sweet. She loves posing for the camera, and she is most happy snuggling in a lap.
The Escambia County Animal Shelter is located at 200 West Fairfield Drive and is open Monday to Friday from noon until 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. For more information, call (850) 595-3075.
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4 Responses to “Purrfect: Adopt An Animal Shelter Cat For Just $20 This Month”
if you’re gonna adopt a cat pleas keep him inside! I don’t want him in my yard eating my birds, walking on my car!
I think it’s great to reduce the fee and will get several cats adopted out so that they don’t either get euthanized or live in the pound forever.
While it is possible that an adopted cat could be abused, I don’t think conducting background checks on people should be a requirement to adopt a pet. Even if the pet ends up elsewhere, rather than with the adopted family, at least it has an opportunity at a better life. I would also go so far as to say that the adopted pets are probably well cared for in most of the cases. Requiring a background check is costly, and people simply won’t pay for it to adopt a pet unless they have more money than they know what to do with, and it doesn’t matter to them how they spend it.
I have 4 cats – all feral. I had them spayed and vaccinated and they live outside under our pole barn with the chickens and rabbits. They are fed twice a day and hunt for rodents. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. I’m the only one they will allow to pick them up or pet them.
Great job by the folks at the animal shelter!
My cat said I could go to work this morning while she takes a 10 hour nap… and not to come home without the salmon pate’.
A great idea to reduce the adoption fee. BUT, are you doing any kind of background check on those wanting to adopt? Some people aren’t fit to have children much less pets. I have 5 cats and 2 kittens myself, and they do not like being handled by children. So you adopt these pets out to people with children – the cat scratches the child and the next thing you know the cat is being abused. Slapped, kicked and blame it all on the cat.
Just saying – Saving pets from being mistreated.