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JUNE is Adopt a Shelter-Cat Month
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IF YOU ARE SURRENDERING AN ANIMAL TO THE SPCA SHELTER, YOU MUST CALL FIRST:
 CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT SURRENDER-INFORMATION!
For Dog Control Officer and other local animal contacts, CLICK HERE.
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COUNTY RABIES CLINICS
The St. Lawrence County Public Health Health Department has released their 2008 schedule for Rabies Clinics in their HOT NEWS links. ALL domesticated dogs, cats and ferrets MUST be immunized for rabies. Click HERE for the actual SCHEDULE.
Please immunize; it helps the entire community, animal and human alike. Use your browser’s Back Button to return here.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Here’s your chance to spend some Quality time with kittens, cats, puppies and dogs. There is always a need for people who would enjoy socializing with with the cats, walking dogs and many other tasks to help your local SPCA shelter while you enjoy yourself on top of it! If you would like to spend some time with future “Perfect Pets”, just give the shelter a call during regular hours and ask about volunteering. There are a wide range of needs so whatever you may be able to offer could be just the thing Perfect Pets need! My wife and I are volunteers and we love it! She is our volunteer photographer/Saturday feline socialization person, and I am the volunteer web site manager. You can also Contact Us by e-mail if you have questions or comments first.
The main purpose of this web site is to provide information about animal adoption as companion pets and to present information and photographs of those pets available for adoption at the local SPCA Shelter, along with humane education and care. The ADOPTION PHOTOS link will take you to that location.
Please, feel free to use the Contact Us Link to let us know your thoughts, opinions, or even to send us articles for posting if you wish. We respond to all messages if desired, and do our best to listen to you!
The MISSION of the St. Lawrence Valley SPCA is to provide quality care for unwanted animals, alleviate pain and suffering, promote quality adoptions, advocate spay/neuter as the only humane method of pet population control and to educate the public on humane treatment of all animals.
A Brief History of The St. Lawrence Valley S.P.C.A.:
Established in Ogdensburg in 1901, the St. Lawrence Valley SPCA was incorporated in 1910 with a legal agreement to protect animals, enforce anticruelty law and maintain its primary office in Ogdensburg. We are a nonprofit agency. This means the board of directors is comprised of volunteers who receive no compensation. It also means that animals can not be sold. We provide a Pet Taxi service, to and from the Vet's, for the pets of senior citizens and the disabled within the City of Ogdensburg.
The beginnings of this web site were conceived and initiated by our late friend and colleague Andy Shattuck in late 1999 and 2000. In May of 2000, Tom Rivet continued Andy's work and the site was finally able to reach a point where it was presented to the surfing public. In Memorium
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SURRENDERING AN ANIMAL TO THE SPCA
It is VERY IMPORTANT to CALL FIRST if you are bringing any animal to the SPCA Shelter, whether it be a current pet or a stray, or an injured animal! The phone number is 393-5191
The requirement to call first is NOT a convenience issue. It is a very important necessity for the well being of all involved, including the animal coming in.
Shelter Personnel must make certain preparations for any animal coming in and your assistance is required to make it work as smoothly as possible.
-- First and foremost, you may arrive to find no one is there to take care of you or the animal you are bringing in.
-- For the animal’s own safety and comfort, a compliant space MUST be made available for it. This way you will not have to wait and tend the animal yourself while you wait for shelter personnel to prepare a compatible housing for the animal, IF they can even do so at that point in time, on top of serving all the potential adopters who may be there looking for a pet to adopt.
-- For the shelter’s safety and protection. Diseases are often unnoticed in new arrivals. Contagious diseases could run rampant throughout the kennels very quickly if the pet is not effectively quarantined as part of the preparations made for taking in a new animal. All new arrivals must be quarantined for a period of time to be certain they do not present a danger to others in the shelter or to their human caretakers.
Remember, this is like a hospital setting, and the health and well being of all animals present in the shelter is of the highest importance.
-- It is often a lot easier for the person/s bringing in an animal to give as much information as possible to the Shelter personnel in writing, opposed to waiting and trying to explain it at the shelter where it may be very busy and very noisy, and full of interruptions, not to mention the discomfort of the summer temperatures and winter cold.
So please help us help both you and the animal to make the process of coming into the shelter as pleasant and easy an experience as possible. All the new smells and noises of an animal shelter can be pretty disconcerting to newcomers so it is important to help them as much as we can.
Your cooperation in these matters is greatly appreciated. And unfortunately, it is also required.
THANK YOU
St. Lawrence Valley SPCA
Volunteers and Staff
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