Animal Shelters house homeless pets

Thursday, 05 July 2007

An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. The animal is kept at the shelter until it is either reclaimed by an owner, adopted to a new owner, placed with another organization, or killed. In the past, they were more commonly referred to as "dog pounds", a term which had its origins in the pounds of agricultural communities, where stray cattle would be penned up until claimed by their owners. Some animal shelters humanely euthanasia animals that are not adopted within a set period of time, others have a policy of only putting down animals that are in distress due to age or illness.  Be sure to have you dog licensed and tags on his/her coler at all time.  A great option is to  micro-chip your dog or cat incase there coler is lost. Here is a link to our shelter and rescues near you.

 

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