CEDARTOWN, GA: ONE MILE FROM ATLANTA ! A DOG THAT SMILES, A GOLDEN RETREIVER BABY~ COME SEE!

    PLEASE SEND TO ALL THE RESCUE FOLK YOU KNOW. THANK YOU.

THIS IS POLK COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL, 55 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN ATLANTA.

A RURAL COUNTY IN WHICH OWNERS SURRENDER A HIGH % OF PUREBRED DOGS, THIS SHELTER MUST EUTHANIZE WEEKLY.

 THE DIRECTOR, JEFF CRAWFORD, IS INTERESTED IN RESCUE GROUPS VISITING ON A REGULAR BASIS - PLEASE CONTACT HIM DIRECTLY:  

jcrawford@polkga.org   OR   770.749.8908 

  PLEASE CONSIDER ADOPTING OR RESCUING YOUR NEXT PET! 

 

Hours + Address :  http://www.polkgeorgia.org/public-safety/animal-control.aspx

Current pets on Petfinder : Click Here     

Please contact the Polk County shelter ~ call 770.749.8908    Email pspp_inc@yahoo.com    fax 770.749.8996

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Fulton County Animal Services Volunteer Opportunities!

Fulton County Animal Services has several adoption events scheduled this weekend. They need volunteers to help handle dogs/kittens and speak with potential

adopters.
Volunteers ages 14+ are welcomed to help
(ages 14-17 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian).

Thanks for helping the homeless animals in Fulton County.

Email volunteer@fultonanimalservices.com if you would like to help.

Petco-Edgewood Event Date - Saturday, June 1st

Time of event - 11am-4pm

Location - 1267 Caroline Street NE

Petco--Smyrna (pet transport volunteers needed for this event)

Event Date - Saturday, June 1st

Time of event - 11am-4pm

Location - 2955 Cobb Parkway SE

Petco--Smyrna (pet transport volunteers needed for this event)

Event Date - Sunday, June 2nd

Time of event - Noon-4pm

Location - 2955 Cobb Parkway SE

NEXT WEEKEND, WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS SCHEDULED. BOTH SHOULD BE A

LOT OF FUN! LET US KNOW IF YOU WANT TO HELP.

PICK-A-PIT ADOPTION EVENT

Event Date - Saturday, June 8th

Time of event - 11am-3pm

Location - Chastain Park

Animal Rescue Fair

Event Date - Sunday, June 9th

Time of event - Noon-5pm

Location - Wills Park Equestrian Center, Alpharetta, GA

___________________

Kerry Moyers-Horton,  Manager of Placement Services

Fulton County Animal Services

860 Marietta Blvd Atlanta, GA 30318

Phone (404) 613-9157

Fax (404) 792-3970

Adopt a pet today! http://www.fultonanimalservices.com

Find us on Twitter at @FCASPets !
(AutoUpdating) Friends of FCAS FB ALL Events: http://j.mp/FCASevents
(AutoUpdating) All Adoptable Dogs: http://j.mp/ATLadoptableDogs 
(AutoUpdating) All Adoptable Cats: http://j.mp/ATLadoptableCATS 
Our location: http://goo.gl/maps/ZE2d5

Please help us keep our dogs comfortable. Donate a Kuranda bed!

http://kuranda.com/donate/8839

Here is the tweet to share.. and TEXT to people. So they can click on it, and go straight to the Adoption events...

RT @FCASPETS Volunteers needed! for @FCASpets #Pet Rescue Adoption events Sat/Sun @Petco #Smyrna http://j.mp/FCASevents

URGENT! Dahlonega GA Bruiser & Roscoe (3 MO Lab siblings) must be out by May 1 or PTS

 

 (45 min North of Atlanta)  

Bruiser and Roscoe are the bubbahs of the puppy room.  Trouble is they have been at the LUKPKIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
over their allowed time.  They have to be outta there by Wednesday May 1 or they will be PTS.

The siblings are three month old Lab puppies.  They are all lab, have never met a stranger and are rarin' to go.
There are too many black dogs in our area since there is a hex on black so we need to work hard on saving these kids!

The adoption fee is $90 and we may be able to find donors for that.

PLEASE let me hear from you with good news.

Dan Bowers, Adoption Coordinator 706-973-9411
Lumpkin County Animal Shelter

1363 Red Oak Flats Road

Dahlonega, GA 30533

(706) 867-7297

lumpkincounty.gov‎

Share for them via Text or Twitter! 

URGENT! Dahlonega GA Bruiser and Roscoe (3 MO Lab siblings) must be out by May 1 or PTS
http://j.mp/Y3qrVw #gapol #PetRescue

Please Review our Proposal to Provide Statewide Free Spay Neuter

Please remember to tune into the Statewide Free Spay Neuter blog page for periodic updates to drafts of this important proposal.

Lancaster CA: Urgent! GSD needs rescue or dies

He was impounded 2/9/13 in a high kill shelter:

Department of Animal Care & Control

HB409: bad for counties, bad for animals in Georgia.

[SHARE THIS POST: Animal Welfare & County Officials Oppose GA HB409 Contact list of Reps deciding the issue at 1pm TOMORROW http://ow.ly/i5aur #gapol]

HB 409 Details

Opposition Statement by Georgia Animal Control (PDF):

GA Animal Control Assoc opposes HB409! http://j.mp/YxXsGU #PetRescue #GAPOL

State Representatives attending tomorrows hearing and able to vote this forward or put a stop to it HERE and NOW.

Albany Dist 154 Winfred Dukes  wwdukes_2000@yahoo.com   229.432.9891 

Ambrose GA District 169 Chuck.sims@house.ga.gov 404 656 7855|912.384.1234

Athens UGA Dist 117 Regina Quick Regina.quick@house.ga.gov, 

Atlanta [Ponce & Moreland] Dist 58 Simone Bell  Simone.bell@house.ga.gov 404.656.0325 

Avondale Estates Dist 87 Coach Earnest Williams Earnest.williams@house.ga.gov 404 656 0202

Brunswick Dist 127 Jeff Chapman, jeff.chapman@house.ga.gov, 404 656 0126 

Canton Dist 22 Calvin Hill Calvin.hill@house.ga.gov  404 656 7855|678.493.7257 

Carrolton Dist 18 Kevin Cooke Kevin.cooke@house.ga.gov  Carrollton

Clarksville Dist 10 Terry Rogers Terry.rogers@house.ga.gov 404 656 0178 706.754.0706

Conyers Dist 113 Pam Dickerson  Pam.dickerson@house.ga.gov, 404 656 0314,  

Eastman Dist 149 Jimmy Pruett Jimmy.Pruett@house.ga.gov  404.656.3947|478.374.4316

Holly Springs, N. Cobb Scot Turner Scot.Turner@house.ga.gov 404 656 0314

Sandersville Dist 128 Mack Jackson Mack.jackson@house.ga.gov 404 656 0314 

Woodstock Dist 20  Micheal Caldwell Michael.caldwell@house.ga.gov 404.656.7859 

Sample email:  Vote No on HB 409

 

Hi Rep. ____________

Sample Greeting I don’t know if you remember me, but I came out and tried to help on your campaign when you first ran for office.  I had connected with your Mom, --------. Hope your parents and you are well.

Like most folks, I know that you are a compassionate person who loves animals.  Did you know an estimated 300,000 pets are killed in GA shelters every year because people do not spay and neuter their animals?  Georgia Taxpayers already spend at the County Level an estimated statewide aggregate cost of $100 million a year running animal control and euthanizing 1000's of animals, 85% are estimated to be adoptable. The numbers are cited in the proposal to solve this problem, once and for all, by the SEPRR 3 Year Free Spay Neuter Program, details can be viewed here. 

 Did you know that animal controls across our state want to put an end to this senseless waste thru low cost and free spay neuter?  While Georgia's current practices are already deemed a wasteful practice, this bill comes along and will only make the problem explode! 

Ask your county officials how much they budget for animal control every year. Then ask them how many animals that are otherwise adoptable must be killed, and how few are ever rescued. Then ask them how much it would cost to run a county wide spay neuter program, and how much money it would save over the near and long term. I am all about saving tax payers money, and when it can save lives too, especially in a humane manner, then so much the better. 

Rescues and county/city animal controls all over the state are combating this senseless killing of our beautiful, healthy homeless pets.  Coincidently, perhaps even fortuitously, tomorrow at 3 PM there will be a press conference addressing this very crisis at which Ag Commissioner Gary Black will speak. You are invited.(View Press Conference Details Here)

At 1 PM there will be a hearing on HB 409 which will set GA back twenty years if passed. It puts great restrictions on local counties and cities to enact their own animal welfare laws from regulating spay and neuter to tethering.  I have heard from the GA Animal Control Association, individual Animal Control Directors, prosecutors, solicitors and rescues working to reduce the killing of 300,000 GA pets. 

All are opposed to HB 409. I’m afraid that special interest groups may be trying to affect GA law for their own profit and other endeavors.  There will be a fact sheet coming out on this, but this bill was just introduced and we have had short notice to oppose it. 

I appeal to your decency as a humane person to vote NO on this bill should it come up for a vote.  Thank you. 

I will be at the Capitol tomorrow and will look for you.

Yours,

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