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How can I help? Join our Kennel Club
Why does Save A Pet charge $125 to adopt a dog?
Where does Save A Pet find all of the rescued animals?
Why hasn't Save A Pet been able to save more lives of the dogs at the pound?
Do you pick up unwanted dogs or cats?
Why can't the county list the dogs that are in the pound each week in the newspaper?
What does Save A Pet do with the donations that they receive?
Why do Georgians need to buy a dog and cat sterilization license plate?
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Why does Save A Pet charge $125 to adopt a dog? 
  We now charge $125 for our dogs, because it cost us $15.00 to micro-chip them.  The fee also includes spay/neuter, current on all shots & heartworm negative. Since our shelter is so full, if one of our dogs does not work out, we can only take the dog back if we have available space.  We hope that by chipping our dogs,  if one gets lost and is picked up by a shelter, the dog will be scanned and an ID number will show, then the owner will be called . This could certainly cut  back on the number of dogs/cats being put to sleep.  Unlike the chip, collars come off or are taken off, but the chip is there permanently and anyone with a scanner can find the owner.   

Where does Save A Pet find all of the rescued animals? 
Save A Pet is under contract with the county to take pets from the pound.  There are always new dogs at the pound, but we can only choose a  few because we have so few foster homes available.  Most of the foster homes already have their own pets, and have only limited room to foster the rescued pets.  As pets are placed with new homes, more dogs are chosen form the pound. The pound dog's need is urgent because they only have a short time before they are put to sleep.

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Why hasn't Save A Pet been able to save more lives of the dogs at the pound?
We wish we could take more from the pound, but we can't unless we find more people who want pets.  Everyone that we talk with already has 3 - 5 pets, some have many more.  The world is saturated with pets and pet owners still won't spay or neuter and allow their pets to produce unwanted offspring.  Please don't buy a dog or breed your dog or cat until there are no more homeless pets.  Also, to be able to place more from the pound, we must help by agreeing to foster dogs, and to go to PetsMart to help place the dogs.  

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Do you pick up unwanted dogs ?
Save A Pet does not come and pick up dogs.  We have a contract with the county to take pets from the pound.  We, by virtue of our contract, can not take in strays, that is the function of our county dogcatcher.   Also, we are volunteers, most of us have full time jobs, and we have a limited number of foster homes.  There is no way that Save A Pet, nor any volunteer organization, could pick up all the dogs that we are asked to pick up. 

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Why can't the county list the dogs that are in the pound each week in the newspaper?
The county has 4 holding pens for dogs that are picked up by animal control.  There is not enough time to put an ad in the paper because it is a weekly paper.  It doesn't take long to fill these pens, so when the holding pens are full, the dogs have to be put to sleep.  Having only 4 pens does not give animal control the space to hold the dogs for a week or so. Normally the vet is called once a week to put the unwanted dogs to sleep but,  if lack of space is a problem, he may be called more often.  If you have a lost dog, call Save A Pet or Animal Control immediately and let them know that you have lost your dog. 

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What does Save A Pet do with the donations that they receive?
All donations that Save A Pet receives are used to provide care for the animals while they are waiting to be placed in their forever home.  Some of these expenses are:  transportation costs, kennel techs for every day of the week, veterinarian expenses, heartworm pills,  frontline, insurance, etc. -  it costs approximately an astounding $243 per day to care for our rescued animals.  The only people who receive any compensation are our hourly kennel techs.  Volunteers take our dogs for adoption events, vet visits,  and do administrative duties.   If you would like to be a part of this organization, please call 478-994-3882 to volunteer!

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     Why do Georgians need to buy a dog and cat sterilization plate?

• This license plate would save the state money and lives by reducing the number of animals:  controlled, housed and put to death in shelters;  causing vehicular accidents involved in insurance cases including claims;  spreading zoonotic diseases, like rabies.

• $1 spent on sterilization programs today will cave $20 by the year 2006.

• It costs approximately $105 of our tax money to kill each surplus animals.

• Roughly $7.3 million was spent in metro Atlanta in 1999 to destroy unwanted animals.

• The Department of Human Resources spends at least $3 million annually on rabies post exposure treatment and testing.

• Decreasing the number of ferals and free-roaming domestic animals reducing losses on:  property, livestock and poultry;  and wildlife and the environment.

• Half of the counties in Georgia have no animal control.

• Fewer animals mean fewer new shelters must be built and fewer animal control professionals must be hired.

• 14 states including Texas, Virginia, Alabama and North Carolina have license plates that provide funding for animal sterilization programs.

• At least $60 million annually is collected in sales tax for dog and cat food alone in Georgia.  No sterilization education or programs are provided and less that $1 million annually is spent for companion animal protection statewide.

Thanks to the Humane  Association of Georgia, Inc. for sharing this information with us.

Did you Know? : The $60 million collected in sales tax from the sale of dog/cat food is currently going into the general budget fund.  If you think more than $1 million of this money should go into a special fund for the benefit of companion animals, let your legislators know.

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