October is Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog-Month and homeless dogs need your help. If you’re thinking about getting a dog, then please consider adopting. There are numerous benefits to adopting a dog, but most importantly, when you adopt you’re saving two lives, the life of the animal that you adopted and the life of the animal that’s going to take its place at the shelter.
Here at the Animal Rescue League of Boston we’re going to spend this month honoring all of the wonderful shelter dogs, and former shelter dogs out there, by spotlighting some of our adoptable dogs and sharing happy endings on our blog. We’ll also be offering canine tips throughout the month. Stay tuned for important information regarding canine health, grooming, exercise, training, nutrition and upcoming pup friendly activities in the Boston area. In addition to sharing helpful tips, we’ll also be tweeting some incredibly touching quotes and photos.
If you’re currently not in a position to adopt a dog, but would still like to help, there are plenty of ways that you can help shelter dogs.
- Spread the word. Talk with your family and friends about the importance of supporting local animals shelters and adopting pets.
- Follow your local animal shelter on Twitter and retweet stories by them.Use the hashtag #SaveDogs. You can share the stories of shelter animals on Facebook and dedicate your Facebook status to an adoptable dog. Social media is a powerful tool and you can use it to help homeless animals.
- If you’ve adopted a dog, write an op-ed about your experience and share your story with your local newspaper.
- Become a volunteer or foster parent. We’re currently in need of volunteers at our Dedham location.
- Donate to your local animal shelter. Every dollar makes a difference and no contribution is ever too small.
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While I think it’s great the ARL adopts it’s domestic pets out, I truly believe they would have better (much) results if they lowered the fees. The fees that are charged are absolutely outrageous.
@Wendy All adoptable animals receive the following veterinary care/ treatments and the adoption fee covers only a fraction of these costs. If you were going to go to a vet for all of this for your pet, it would cost you much more than the adoption fee. Also, think about the daily costs of pet care that we provide such as food, bedding, littler, etc…
- Health screening and veterinary examination
- Spayed/Neutered
- Vaccinations
- Rabies vaccination for dogs, cats and ferrets
- Microchip identification and registration
- Heartworm test and preventative medication for dogs
- Feline Leukemia test for cats
- Flea, tick and mite treatment
- Deworming for intestinal parasites
- Tag, collar, and leash or carrier
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If you can’t afford the adoption fee, you probably could not afford the medical costs to upkeep a pet through the year. There are annual exams, monthly heartworm preventive meds, flea and tic control meds, and routine vet charges, not to mention possible grooming expenses. But what really adds up are the unexpected costs. One of my rescue dogs developed an expensive but controllable Auto Immune Deficiency Disease, along with dental problems, broken teeth, and abcesses. My other pup had to have several operations to remove benign tumors, and kept cutting her feet on god-only-knows what, requiring emergency stitches.
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Having read this I believed it was rather enlightening.
I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this article together.
I once again find myself spending way too much time both reading and commenting.
But so what, it was still worth it!